Death comes upon them only when satiated with life; after a career of feasting, in an old age sated with every luxury, they leap from a certain rock there into the sea; and this they deem the most desirable mode of ending existence.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

We can never think of him without reflecting on these qualities; unless repentance and a change of life have produced an alteration in that respect: In which case the passion is likewise altered.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

B.C. 200 ( a.u. 554) As a consequence of their vote they made effective preparations in all departments and they associated with Sulpicius Galba Lucius Apustius as legatus in charge of the fleet.
— 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 was a favorite drink in the Middle Ages, and consisted of a mixture of honey and water with the addition of a ferment.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

METHODIUS; ALEXANDER OF LYCOPOLIS; PETER OF ALEXANDRIA; Anatolius; Clement on Virginity, and Fragments.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The means were misunderstood as measures of value, and even used as a condemnation of their original purpose....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He grew angry, and called out loudly, 'Nay, when you both speak at once, it is intolerable.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

" Sri Yukteswar's words aroused a conviction of personally-applicable truth which no other healer-and I had tried many!-had been able to summon within me.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Whereas Ursula would have liked robes and a ceremonial of introduction to this, her new estate.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The same action, accordingly as it is performed by them or against them, is denounced as a crime or highly approved.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

The caravans that go hence once or twice a year through Moab to Palmyra are numerous and well armed, and capable of resisting an attack by these robber tribesmen.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

One does not have to forecast a particular program to note that the central need of any program at the present day is an adequate conception of the nature of intelligence and its place in action.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The man was then stripped, and a chunk of his flesh cut out of his body, and jestingly offered for sale: “Good fresh meat, and dirt cheap,” exclaimed some of the crowd.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

About the central line of the neck of land, a dozen or so of stands are ranged at equal distances, built about four feet high, each large enough for two gunners; with shelves within for the various traps needful, a plank floor, and a couple of stools.
— from Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) by Tyrone Power

This conclusion settled the matter very satisfactorily to Cynthia, and made Nathalie rejoice that she had, after all, come out conqueror in her fight with self.
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

Most of the newspapers of that period teemed with eulogistic reviews of books written against the faith; cheap periodicals, such as the Rev. Mr. Sparry’s American Anti-Papist , were thrust into the hands of all who would read them by the agents of the Bible and proselytizing societies; and a cohort of what were called anti-papal lecturers, of which a reverend individual named Cheever was the leader, was employed to attack the Catholic Church with every conceivable weapon that the arsenal of Protestantism afforded.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

‘'Er boy ‘ad a sailor dancing a ‘ornpipe on ‘is left wrist, an' a couple o' dolphins on his right.
— from Light Freights by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs