The wall-thickness is similarly to be preserved above ground likewise, and the intervals between these walls should be vaulted over, or filled with earth rammed down hard, to keep the walls well apart.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He was a thorough Whig, earnestly religious, and given to the production of heroic poems.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Among the gentlemen were characters of deserved eminence—magistrates, politicians, and men of wealth, by whose example religion could not but be greatly recommended to their meaner brethren.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thus if we have not succeeded in being everywhere piquant, we trust we shall be found nowhere unpardonably dull: an achievement of some merit, surely, when our material, comprising nothing that was exceptionally romantic or very grandly heroic, is considered.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

If the regulated value of a guinea, for example, was either reduced to twenty, or raised to two-and-twenty shillings, all accounts being kept, and almost all obligations for debt being expressed, in silver money, the greater part of payments could in either case be made with the same quantity of silver money as before; but would require very different quantities of gold money; a greater in the one case, and a smaller in the other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Matthew of Westminster, editorial reference to, 345 n. Maurice, or Mauritius, Emperor, 42 , 43 , 44 , 64 , 66 , 68 , 71 , 72 , 81 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

But, alack, That monster envy, oft the wrack Of earned praise, Marina’s life Seeks to take off by treason’s knife, And in this kind our Cleon hath One daughter, and a full grown wench Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid Hight Philoten: and it is said For certain in our story, she Would ever with Marina be. Be’t when she weaved the sleided silk With fingers long, small, white as milk; Or when she would with sharp needle wound, The cambric, which she made more sound By hurting it; or when to th’ lute She sung, and made the night-bird mute That still records with moan; or when She would with rich and constant pen Vail to her mistress Dian; still This Philoten contends in skill With absolute Marina: so The dove of Paphos might with the crow Vie feathers white.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course. 13.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

In a little while Edith recovered her composure, and stealing out of her grandmother's arms, turned towards the window to conceal her red and tear-stained face.
— from Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling

Gatiño and his family will ever remain in my mind as a bright, cheerful group.
— from Down the Orinoco in a Canoe by Santiago Pérez Triana

“We thought you were Ruth, Mr. Drummond,” Jean replied, coming to herself sooner than Olive, “but of course we are terribly glad it is you; only—why—the truth is, we expected Ruth to be able to tell us that Jack was better or something.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

Dr. W. E. Roth mentions that crayfish and a certain fish resembling the rock-cod are similarly captured, and remarks that the log is lifted at an angle, with one hand closing the lower aperture, in which position it is brought to and held above the surface, when the water trickles out between the fingers of the sealing hand.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Watching with close scrutiny every act of the mother country, he early foresaw that the demands of Great Britain would eventually result in a rupture.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander

The colour of the sheet of water cannot be given in a single word; and indeed it varies with extraordinary range of scale.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

"But one of the most satisfactory evidences of regeneration is an aversion to sin, and an ardent desire for an entire conformity to the purity of the Divine nature, which every renewed man feels—an aversion which is not directed exclusively against open immoralities, but which extends to the principles of evil which lie concealed in the recesses of the heart.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

It wer’ eighth Romans, thirtieth.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes