That too is not difficult, especially if the war is not going decisively one way or the other.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

A parentibus habemus malum hunc assem , saith [1586] Pelezius, Nascitur una nobiscum, aliturque , 'tis propagated from Adam, Cain was melancholy, [1587] as Austin hath it, and who is not? Good discipline, education, philosophy, divinity (I cannot deny), may mitigate and restrain these passions in some few men at some times, but most part they domineer, and are so violent, [1588] that as a torrent ( torrens velut aggere rupto ) bears down all before, and overflows his banks, sternit agros, sternit sata , (lays waste the fields, prostrates the crops,) they overwhelm reason, judgment, and pervert the temperature of the body; Fertur [1589] equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"You thought it strange," he continued, "that I did not demand satisfaction from that drunken idiot R——. You will admit, however, that having the choice of weapons, his life was in my hands, while my own was in no great danger.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Its amalgamation will involve no great difficulty, however; it has been going on peacefully in the countries south of us for several centuries, and is likely to continue along similar lines.
— from The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

The latter, which is nearly globular, divides into eight nearly similar cells by walls passing through the centre.
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

And of this Nature is another at Rowel in Northamptonshire , which in no great distance of time so clogs the Wheel of an overshot Mill there, that they are forced with, convenient Instruments to cut way for its Motion; and what makes it still more evident, is the sight of those incrusted Sides of the Tea-kettles, that the hard Well-waters are the occasion of, by being often boiled in them:
— from The London and Country Brewer by Anonymous

{1299} The genus Sethocyrtis and the three following nearly allied genera differ from the three preceding genera of Sethocorida in the form of the thorax, which is not gradually dilated, conical, but cylindrical or ovate, with more or less constricted mouth.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

"Where is Norah?" "Gone down to young James Holby's wife; she is lying-in."
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

This they cannot consciously have; the only natural intermediate link, therefore, between their conscious knowledge and their action is supplied by unconscious idea, which, however, is always accurately prescient, inasmuch as it contains something which is neither given directly to the animal through sensual perception, nor can be deduced inferentially through the understanding.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

The field should be kept free from weeds which is not generally done for several reasons.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

The Court with all its pomp and retinue, the school with all its pedantries and brazen ignorance, 'High Art' with its new graces, divinity, Mar-texts and all, must 'come hither, come hither,' and 'under the green-wood tree lie with me,' the ding-dong of this philosopher's new learning says, calling his new school together.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

‘We are not talking now of men as they are, whom Homer’s Zeus calls the most wretched of all the beasts of the field; we are talking—are we not?—of a perfect and archetypal Son, and a perfect and archetypal Father, in a perfect and eternal world, wherein is neither growth, decay, nor change; and of a perfect and archetypal generation, of which the only definition can be, that like begets its perfect like?....
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley