478 Hæ tot portiones terræ, as Alexandre correctly remarks, “ironice dictum.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It'll all come right, I dare say.”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Her memory found but one resting place; it lingered about her young girlhood with a caressing regret; it dwelt upon it as the one brief interval of her life that bore no curse.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Now the value of all this is to indicate merely whether a certain regularity is discoverable in the procedure of the officials.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

In Korea, one of the Asian countries richest in demonology, beast worship is very prevalent.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

ANT: Unusual, exceptional, abnormal, capricious, rare, irregular, disordered, fitful, unsymmetrical, variable, eccentric, erratic, uncertain.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Simmias and Cebes remain in doubt; but they are unwilling to raise objections at such a time.
— from Phaedo by Plato

That night a conflagration raged in Doemville.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Hearing this Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio retreated into Don Quixote's room, and they hardly had time to do so before the whole party the host had described entered the inn, and the four that were on horseback, who were of highbred appearance and bearing, dismounted, and came forward to take down the woman who rode on the side-saddle, and one of them taking her in his arms placed her in a chair that stood at the entrance of the room where Cardenio had hidden himself.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“So near,” answered the landlord, “that here they come.” Hearing this Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio retreated into Don Quixote’s room, and they hardly had time to do so before the whole party the host had described entered the inn, and the four that were on horseback, who were of highbred appearance and bearing, dismounted, and came forward to take down the woman who rode on the side-saddle, and one of them taking her in his arms placed her in a chair that stood at the entrance of the room where Cardenio had hidden himself.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I am not a Catholic, and have never been, but during a stay of seven years in Catholic countries and among Catholic relatives, I discovered that the difference between Catholic and Protestant tenets is either none at all, or else wholly superficial, and that the division which once occurred was merely political or else concerned with theological problems not fundamentally germane to the religion itself.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, Second series by August Strindberg

A COLD RECEPTION " I don't think she is," said Abel, reddening with mortification.
— from Making His Mark by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

2 [AB2; c1] rise in degree or quantity.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They resemble their great original as much as Greenough's classically nude statue, exposed to the incongruities of the North American climate, resembles in dress and appearance the general of our armies and the first President of the United States.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

That the Indians are of a cruel, revengeful, inexorable disposition, that they will watch whole days unmindful of the calls of nature, and make their way through pathless, and almost unbounded woods, subsisting only on the scanty produce of them, to pursue and revenge themselves of an enemy; that they hear unmoved the piercing cries of such as unhappily fall into their hands, and receive a diabolical pleasure from the tortures they inflict on their prisoners, I readily grant; but let us look on the reverse of this terrifying picture, and we shall find them temperate both in their diet and potations (it must be remembered, that I speak of those tribes who have little communication with Europeans) that they with-stand, with unexampled patience, the attacks of hunger, or the inclemency of the seasons, and esteem the gratification of their appetites but as a secondary consideration.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver

Growth and the diseases of old age do indeed, at first sight, appear to stand on the same footing, but reflection shows us that the question whether a certain result is due to memory or no must be settled not by showing that combinations into which memory does not certainly enter may yet generate like results, and therefore considering the memory theory disposed of, but by the evidence we may be able to adduce in support of the fact that the second agent has actually remembered the conduct of the first, inasmuch as he cannot be supposed able to do what it is plain he can do, except under the guidance of memory or experience, and can also be shown to have had every opportunity of remembering.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

Our translator discards the often-repeated theory that the Christian Scriptures have copied the wise sayings of Krishna; and it is very significant that an argument to which superficial apologists constantly resort is discarded by this real Hindu, as he supports the theory that as both were direct revelations from Vishnu, there was in his view no need of borrowing.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

"Then it's no use," said Pargeter, with a certain relief, "I don't want to force the thing open."
— from The Uttermost Farthing by Marie Belloc Lowndes

To understand the principles constitutes a large percentage of the qualifications required and to be able to execute the practical alterations and corrections required in different kinds of variations completes the general qualifications.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein