Olga Ivanovna was not weeping now, but as before, staring at the flower-bed in profound silence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I wish to warn you against any who would lead you astray by specious argument and persuasive rhetoric.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, “Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.” H2 anchor The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox A LION and a Bear seized a Kid at the same moment, and fought fiercely for its possession.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Why does a boat sail across the wind?
— 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

He was fond of good eating and drinking, was an ideal whist-player, was a connoisseur in women and horses, but in other things he was apathetic and sluggish as a seal, and to rouse him from his lethargy something extraordinary and quite revolting was needed, and then he would forget everything in the world and display intense activity; he would fume and talk of a duel, write a petition of seven pages to a Minister, gallop at breakneck speed about the district, call some one publicly “a scoundrel,” would go to law, and so on.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Let’s fly, I do not say with hands and feet, as Brutus said at the battle of Pharsalia; I say, with sails and oars.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

[A] , both strong and suitable in all ways.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

To the honour of our present system of taxation, indeed, it has hitherto given so little embarrassment to industry, that, during the course even of the most expensive wars, the frugality and good conduct of individuals seem to have been able, by saving and accumulation, to repair all the breaches which the waste and extravagance of government had made in the general capital of the society.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

These are they, who, the last year, attacking by surprise a single legion in the obscurity of the night, were put to flight by a shout: the greatest fugitives of all the Britons, and therefore the longest survivors.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

The stockings are blue silk, and come from the French house in Covent Garden, as doth the scarf of striped gauze, and the shoes, gallooned with silver.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

However, the apology must be made quickly—if possible, this afternoon before school—and as they entered the school-ground again, Michael looked up at the clock, and said: "Do you mind if I bunk on?
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

He took the boy, already beginning to breathe more freely, and laid him on a lounge, covered with a buffalo skin, at the opposite side of the apartment.
— from Robert Coverdale's Struggle; Or, on the Wave of Success by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

He did not answer, but stared at her curiously.
— from The Plunderer by Roy Norton

It consists of a basement story about four hundred and thirty feet in length, by three hundred and fifty feet in width, surmounted by two tiers of arches, with half columns 69 of the Tuscan order between each, all about eighty feet high.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

Moreover, I have adapted this, which may almost be styled a second edition, to the wants and the arrangements of the 'Sacred Books of the East.' J. S. Speyer.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

He is a well-built young athlete, has a beautiful stride, and runs in much better form than any scholastic competitor that has ever appeared in local games.
— from Harper's Round Table, April 7, 1896 by Various

“But it does not seem possible”—these are his words—“that any animal, until its mental powers had been developed to an equal or nearly equal degree with those of man, would have closely considered and been sensitive about its own personal appearance” (p. 364).
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

[83] M. Thiers escaped by a back stair, and left for Versailles so out of his senses that at the bridge of Sévres he gave the written order to evacuate Mont-Valérien.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray