Nor [Pg 249] must we forget that it is aided by an automatic "stop," the iris , the central hole of which is named the pupil .
— 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

Then said the Interpreter to Christian, "Hast thou considered these things?" Chris.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Some say that in this costume he sprang upon a horse and rode toward the enemy and met his death at their hands, others that he was slain by a fellow-soldier of his own race.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

It is said in Aristotle's Master Piece, 'That when a man doth think of any thing which is past,—he looketh down upon the ground;—but that when he thinketh of something that is to come, he looketh up towards the heavens.'
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He said that if the charge had been made along our whole line with the same vigor of attack made by his brigade, and if we had been supported as Morgan promised to do, we might have succeeded.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I had often seen them in their comfortable home, and thought that the whole town did not contain a happier family.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

But persisting, as indeed he could not help doing, for some time in this course, he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He had soon caught him up again, for Agamemnon's mare Aethe kept pulling stronger and stronger, so that if the course had been longer he would have passed him, and there would not even have been a dead heat.
— from The Iliad by Homer

M. Compayré even goes so far as to say that, if the child has not been subjected to bad influences, or if a discipline of repression and constraint has not driven him to seek a refuge in dissimulation, he is usually frankness and sincerity itself.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

To this advice he endeavoured to give greater force, by saying, that in the correspondence held by the kings of An-nam, before the assumption of the present title of emperor, such humble phraseology was made use of.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

That the Bōyas were much prized as fighting men in the stirring times of the eighteenth century is spoken to in the contemporaneous history of Colonel Wilks.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And yet Matthew does not state that in that conversation He said: "Whoso believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and whoso believeth not shall be damned."
— from Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

If, he said, there are sacred treasures in the city, he will confiscate and spend them; and in so far as the fortunes of attainted persons may suffice, he will be able to diminish the taxes which he would otherwise have to impose upon the people.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

In the resurrection we shall see our friends forever as we see them in these clairvoyant hours.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Of late years, since the indefatigable Town Clerk has succeeded in waking up the inhabitants to the possibilities of the great future that lies before their town, not only has a new system of drainage and water been introduced, but a register has been kept of the death-rate.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

General Dayton appeared pleased with the conversation, and (I think) said, that if this conversation had taken place earlier, much trouble might have been saved, or words to that effect.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

He must be sensitive, he supposed; then, in that case, he had failed to reach the proper standard.... Randal was never sensitive.
— from The Wooden Horse by Hugh Walpole

The view south takes in the Caelian Hill, the ancient residence of Tullus Hostilius.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord