"Or" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... best specimens, or rather the worst, are to be found in the speeches in Pisonem, in Vatinium, and in the ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... soon at Mr. Damon's side. He saw that the man was unconscious, whether from fright or some injury could not then be determined. There was, however, no ...
— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton
... himself still sent assistance to those that were the hardest beset, and placed both horsemen and archers on the several sides of the engines, and thereby beat off those that brought the fire to them. He also thereby repelled those that shot stones or darts from the towers, and then set the engines to work in good earnest; yet did not the wall yield to these blows, excepting where the battering ram of the Fifteenth legion moved the corner of a tower, while the wall itself continued unhurt, for the wall was not presently in ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 • Various
... calculatingly: he is a very keen man of the world, and he has recovered sufficiently from the peculiarity of the situation to speculate upon it with true British acumen. Shall he, or shall he not, put a certain question to her, or leave the matter at rest for ever? Being a person well used to gratifying himself, he asks his question: "Supposing that it had not been true, what would you have had to say to me then?" ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... comparative systematisation, to ascribe to man any other place in the animal world than in the order of apes; and it is quite immaterial whether we designate this individual group as the Order of Apes, or, with Linnaeus, as the Primates. For the phylogenetic construction of the system, the common descent of man and of apes from one common parent-form, necessarily follows from this inevitable grouping, and on this proposition ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel
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