According to Marcellinus, it seems to be at Nymphæum that it sinks into the earth.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

" Immediately a prelude of pipe, cittern and viol, touched with practised minstrelsy, began to play from a neighboring thicket in such a mirthful cadence that the boughs of the Maypole quivered to the sound.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As no time is sufficient, so no place is improper, for this great concern.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And is it absolutely necessary that it should be here? Mrs Linde .
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

And now the incantation seemed complete, for the Witch stood upright and cried the one word "Yeowa!"
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And as Jealousy thus arises from an extraordinary Love, it is of so delicate a Nature, that it scorns to take up with any thing less than an equal Return of Love.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Yet I believe I should be very easy, now the first shock is over, and now that I see the whole affair with the resentment it merits, did not all my good friends in this neighbourhood, who think me extremely altered, tease me about my gravity, and torment Mr. Villars with observations upon my dejection and falling away.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

But the Filipinos are not trained in sanitary matters, and all they know about handling large crowds of prisoners they learned from the Spaniards.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

According to him, it is not at all necessary that I should touch every one; a look, a gesture, even a wish, is sufficient.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

If, indeed, the supply could not be increased, no diminution in the cost of production would lower the value; but there is by no means any necessity that it should .
— 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

Then said they; When a grene trée is cut in sunder in the middle, and the part cut off is caried thrée acres bredth from the stocke, and returning againe to the stoale, shall ioine therewith, and begin to bud & beare fruit after the former maner, by reason of the sap renewing the accustomed nourishment; then (I say) may there be hope that such euils shall ceasse and diminish."
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

It is defaced by the presence of articles of no value at all in the world of needs; there is nothing in it that is genuinely beautiful and nothing that is substantially useful.
— from A Girl's Student Days and After by Jeannette Augustus Marks

"Can any one live in your cursed Greek climate, and not take it?" said Paul, somewhat resenting the rough shaking he had received.
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling

I expect to see those lines around Jane's eyes, and if they are not there I shall almost be disappointed.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

In keeping with either mood of nature, the ancient Priory of Tynemouth, standing on the sandstone cliffs on the northern bank of the Tyne, rearing its grey and roofless walls above the harbour mouth, strikes a note that is symbolic of the Northumbria of old and the Northumberland of to-day—the note, that is, of the intimate commingling of the romance of the warlike past and the romance of the industrial present.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

Pupils need time for reading and reflection, and no time is so opportune as the quiet winter season.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Department of Education

She would have been in the lake of a night too, if she could have had her way, for the balcony of her window overhung a deep pool in it, and through a shallow reedy passage she could have swum out into the wide wet water, and no one would have been any the wiser.
— from Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others by Various

A nerve tendency is simply the likelihood that a stimulus will take a certain course rather than any other.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

Sometimes it may still be regarded as a necessity to include small groups of alien race and language in different states in order to ensure strategically safe frontiers.
— from Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti