He also built a city of the same name in the valley of Jericho, as you go from it northward, whereby he rendered the neighboring country more fruitful by the cultivation its inhabitants introduced; and this also he called Phasaelus.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The buyers claim the haul as theirs, the fishermen assert that it belongs to them.” Again: “Some dealers having to land from a ship at Brundusium a cargo of slaves, among which there was a handsome boy of great value, they, in order to deceive the collectors of the customs, smuggled him ashore in the dress of a freeborn youth, with the bullum 907 hung about his neck.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

It is well known, that at Berenice, a city of the Troglodytæ, and 4820 stadia beyond that city, in the same country, at the town of Ptolemais, which was built on the Red Sea, when the elephant was first hunted, this same thing takes place for forty-five days before the solstice and for an equal length of time after it, and that during these ninety days the shadows are turned towards the south 510 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Mephistopheles now, as becomes a creation of the Theology of obtaining what is not earned, calls up infernal troops to seize Faust’s soul, but the angels pelt them with roses.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The puzzle is to move the engines, one at a time, along the lines, from stopping-place to stopping-place, until you succeed in getting an A, a B, and a C on each circle, and also A, B, and C on each straight line.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

For our impatience at these arises for the most part from the fact that we regard them as brought about by a chain of causes which might easily be different.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

If now I maintain that I am ahead, by a century or two of enlightenment, of Voltaire and Galiani—who was much more profound, how deeply must I have sunk into gloominess!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Jupiter assumes the shape of a Bull, and carrying off Europa, swims with her on his back to the isle of Crete.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He is thus completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The best way to correct a horse is to dishearten him, and make him do what he would fain avoid, not so much by force and obstinate resolution, in contesting with him openly, and directly, when he is perfectly prepared to resist; as by a cool opposition, and indirect means.
— from The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by T. A. Jenkins

Our country sent over to Liverpool, besides sterling Nationalists, as bitter a colony of Irishmen—I suppose we can scarcely deny the name to men born in Ireland—as were, perhaps, to be found anywhere in the world.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

He turned from the window at last, and blew a cloud of grey smoke into the quiet room.
— from Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Although natives of the two rival cities of Persia, yet without any particular previous cause, and by a combination of those nothings which give rise to most friendships, we became inseparable companions.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

Arrangements had been made for the baptism of the Indian, when he was taken suddenly ill; that sacrament was however administered by a curate of St. Giles' Church.
— from The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

"It will be useless to bring me anything but a cup of tea, Margaret."
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan

In the Madras Census Report, 1891, the Bhatrāzus are summed up as being “a class of professional bards, spread all over the Telugu districts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

'Our two Ambrym boys are coming out; and I am hopeful as to some more decided connection with the north face of the Island.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Where bathing only is the inducement, the place and its neighbourhood is of very little consequence, provided it is convenient and near the sea; but where the mind and body are capable of being sufficiently active to be amused abroad, or to those whose aim is pleasure, a country affording that amusement by its variety, is certainly to be preferred; and to such as are fond of the study of landscape, variety and some degree of beauty are absolutely necessary.
— from Observations upon the Town of Cromer Considered as a Watering Place, and the Picturesque Scenery in Its Neighbourhood by Edmund Bartell

That had always been a conceit of hers in Barbadoes.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black