Though Çiva has not yet become the name of Rudra, its frequent use as an adjective connected with the latter shows that it is in course of becoming fixed as the proper name of the highest god.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

One bell may serve a large number of rooms if an indicator be used to show where the call was made from, by a card appearing in one of a number of small windows.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

They do not often reach India, as the breed is a favourite one among the Afghan chiefs, and the horses are likely to be appropriated in transit.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

No one understands a general principle fully—no matter how adequately he can demonstrate it, to say nothing of repeating it—till he can employ it in the mastery of new situations, which, if they are new, differ in manifestation from the cases used in reaching the generalization.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The gods are distinct personalities, with attributes and histories which it is hard to divine the source of and which suggest no obvious rational interpretation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That impudent Toad Bareface fares well among all the Ladies he converses with, for no other Reason in the World but that he has the Skill to keep them from Explanation one with another.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"And can I not obtain rest in the grave for you?" "Yes," was the answer.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

When marching in the daytime that part of the army leads the van which seems best suited to the nature of the country to be traversed—heavy or light infantry, or cavalry; but by night our rule is that the slowest arm should take the lead.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

His eminence was in the habit of receiving every evening, and his rooms were thronged with the highest nobility of Rome; I had never attended these receptions.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But I shall not pretend to give you any particular Directions as to the Nature of Repentance: I consider that I speak to a Person, whose Offences have proceeded not so much from his not knowing , as his slighting and neglecting his Duty : Neither is it proper for me to give Advice out of the Way of my own Profession.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

And once more, the existence of rudimentary organs, homologous with organs that are developed in allied animals or plants, while it admits of no other rational interpretation, is satisfactorily interpreted by the hypothesis of evolution.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

We not only recognise its good, sweetness, and adaptation to ourselves, but we actually possess in real fruition the sweetness that we recognise, and the good which we apprehend in it.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

[165] ~Rhampsinitus~. A Greek corruption of Ra-messu-pa-neter , the popular name of Rameses III, King of Egypt.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

No other remarkable incident occurred till we arrived at Rock Independence.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

Lichfield had no doubt preserved a comely manner of living; but it had produced in the last half-century nothing of real importance except John Charteris.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

At this period there appears to have existed no novels or romances in the modern style, except the Lazarillo de Tormes of Diego de Mendoza.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

In fact the woman with a baby or little children is in the minority, but I thought it only right to provide for them—for a number of reasons—" "Including sympathy?" smiled one of the ladies.
— from Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

No one rises in the morning with any certainty that he may not end the day in grief; no one lies down at night with any assurance that it may not be a night of sorrow.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes