[CAS. 837] then the promontory Phycus, 1004 which is low, but extends further to the north than the rest of the African coast; it is opposite to Tænarum, 1005 in Laconia, at the distance 1006 of 2800 stadia; on it there is also a small town of the same name as the promontory.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

We can now understand why in Lower Brittany every person throws a pebble into the midsummer bonfire.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I was so afraid of Rosalie (whom I loved better every day) taking fright.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Carrie looked into her pretty face, with its large blue eyes, and saw little beads of moisture.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Into this cavity, which is lined by epiblast, the gill clefts open ( fig. 4 B, br.c ).
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Still, I would rather leave my reader the sense of that most noble facade of the church, with its lofty balustraded entablature, where the gigantic Christ and ten of his saints look out forever to the Alban hills.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

In Chhattīsgarh those Chamārs who still cure hides and work in leather belong either to the Kanaujia or Ahirwār subcastes, the former of whom take their name from the well-known classical town of Kanauj in northern India, while the latter are said to be the descendants of unions between Chamār fathers and Ahīr mothers.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Euphrasy or eyebright with its little bright eye was a medicine for sore eyes.
— from Masters of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

A protest, however, may be entered against a construction of the Constitution which is liberal, by embracing all it can be constrained to imply, and then immediately becomes strict in imposing these ingeniously contrived fetters.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Whoever is led by evil intentions is a coward, and no coward would dare to run his head against Truchses, the Duke of Bavaria, and the whole Swabian League, and rise superior to the danger, as you have done."
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

In fact, the worst effect of a condition of inferiority is the weakness it leaves behind; even when we say, "Hands off!"
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson