The first I caught was sidling through the postern Close by the Cave of Pan: the next hoisting herself With rope and pulley down: a third on the point Of slipping past: while a fourth malcontent, seated For instant flight to visit Orsilochus On bird-back, I dragged off by the hair in time....
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

He was capable of doing two things at once—eating with relish and pondering deeply.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Unfortunately for Communism, the man got into serious sexual difficulties, difficulties of a kind which any American psychiatrist would recognize as potentially devastating.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

They were regarded as prophetic divinities, and had sanctuaries in many parts of Greece.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The other interior objects will require a proportional degree of information with regard to them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The master returned to Valenciennes, Watteau remained at Paris, desiring to depend upon his fortune, good or bad.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Even the presence of her friend Harriet, upon which she had founded most of her hopes, was rigidly and perseveringly denied to her.
— from The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 2 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William Alexander Caruthers

Bodin wrote “Réponse aux paradoxes de M. de Malestroit touchant l'enchérissement de toutes les choses et des monnaies” (1568), and “Discours sur le rehaussement et la diminution des monnaies” (1578).
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

These were regarded as perilous days to fall ill upon, to have an accident, to be married, to start on a journey, or commence any work.
— from Everybody's Book of Luck by Anonymous

We have thus a real and physical modal distinction: real and physical , because the spherical wax really and physically differs from the cubic wax; modal , because the negation of identity falls on the two modes, and not on the substance.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

It was on my way home from Egypt that the oracle of Mallus was mentioned to me as a particularly intelligible and veracious one: I was told that any question, duly written down on a tablet and handed to the priest, would receive a plain, definite answer.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

Dedication page, the word “BRETHERN” was retained as printed due to the great amount of comic dialect used in the text.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed