That there is always among decently conducted people a practical compromise, though one of them at least is under no physical or moral necessity of making it, shows that the natural motives which lead to a voluntary adjustment of the united life of two persons in a manner acceptable to both, do on the whole, except in unfavourable cases, prevail.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Meantime Coenus returned to Alexander at Nautaca, as also did Craterus, Phrataphernes the viceroy of the Parthians, and Stasanor the viceroy of the Areians, after executing all the orders which Alexander had given them.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

At this time there were only two men who habitually dined with him: a young zoologist called Von Koren, who had come for the summer to the Black Sea to study the embryology of the medusa, and a deacon called Pobyedov, who had only just left the seminary and been sent to the town to take the duty of the old deacon who had gone away for a cure.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[6238] Cleobulus two alone, others otherwise; as first to make a good choice in marriage, to invite Christ to their wedding, and which [6239] St. Ambrose adviseth, Deum conjugii praesidem habere , and to pray to him for her, A Domino enim datur uxor prudens , Prov. xix. ) not to be too rash and precipitate in his election, to run upon the first he meets, or dote on every stout fair piece he sees, but to choose her as much by his ears as eyes, to be well advised whom he takes, of what age, &c., and cautelous in his proceedings.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[A; a1] destroy, cause physical destruction.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

p. 80, 81, who quotes several epigrams of the Anthology,) and Ducange, (C. P. Christ.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

1916—Orville W. Chamberlain, New Orleans, is granted a United States patent on an automatic drip coffee pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But if Panaetius were the sort of man to say that virtue is worth cultivating only because it is productive of advantage, as do certain philosophers who measure the desirableness of things by the standard of pleasure or of absence of pain, he might argue that expediency sometimes clashes with moral rectitude.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He had him cited before the Faculty of Medicine to be examined on his knowledge of the eye, and procured the insertion of a satiric article in the news on the new operation for replacing the crystalline humour, alluding to the wonderful artist then in Warsaw who could perform this operation as easily as a dentist could put in a false tooth.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Les Anglais avaient des chevaux plus frais que les nôtres
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

But in the segmentations of living things the nodes and internodes, once determined by the dividing forces, would each become the seat of appropriate and distinct chemical processes leading to the differentiation of the parts, and the deposition of the bones, petals, spines, hairs, and other organs in relation to the meristic ground-plan.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

[See “The Nullity of the Pretended Assembly at Saint Andrews and Dundee,” &c., p. 312.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

The Seraph saw that look, and a deadly chill passed over him, as it had done at the Jew's first charge—not doubt; such heresy to his creeds, such shame to his comrade and his corps could not be in him; but a vague dread hushed his impetuous vehemence.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

With illustrations from seals in the author’s collection, and after De Clercq , Pinches , and others.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 1, January, 1887 by Various

On the morning of the 28th it thundered, and a dense cloud passed over to the north, the wind was unsteady, and I hoped that the storm would have worked round, but it did not.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

They were like a voice directly from the pleasant days of last summer, when the author with his family was breathing mountain air at DuBois City, Pa., when we exchanged poems of our own versing, and Mrs. L. added her beautiful children's stories.
— from To and Through Nebraska by Frances I. Sims Fulton