The second are such as working metals and carpentry, for they are alterative arts.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

On this occasion there was a change for the better.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But, in their passage through Italy and Illyricum, they were detained by the tedious and affected delays of the provincial governors; they were conducted by slow journeys from Constantinople to Cæsarea in Cappadocia; and when at length they were admitted to the presence of Constantius, they found that he had already conceived, from the despatches of his own officers, the most unfavorable opinion of the conduct of Julian, and of the Gallic army.
— 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

At the same time that it sees from above, it sees farther; at every moment of time, it embraces all known reality; that is why it alone can furnish the mind with the moulds which are applicable to the totality of things and which make it possible to think of them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

One morning when she was just going back to her work, she found a letter on this heap, and as she could not read, she put her broom in the corner, and took the letter to her master and mistress, and behold it was an invitation from the elves, who asked the girl to hold a child for them at its christening.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The first historical notice that we have of the formation of a supreme controlling body of the fraternity, is in the "Gothic Constitutions" 4 which assert that, in the year 287, St. Alban, the protomartyr of England, who was a zealous patron of the craft, obtained from Carausius, the British Emperor, "a charter for the Masons to hold a general council, and gave it the name of assembly."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Pere la Chaise is very curious, for many of the tombs are like small rooms, and looking in, one sees a table, with images or pictures of the dead, and chairs for the mourners to sit in when they come to lament.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

As conqueror of the hitherto independent Celts of Gaul, Caesar had ample opportunity of observing the national Celtic religion and manners, while these were still fresh and crisp from the native mint and had not yet been fused in the melting-pot of Roman civilisation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But evermore they are create from things Of divers colours.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

It is interesting to note that Lowell frankly expresses in this article his regret that Lincoln instead of Seward should have been selected as candidate for the presidency.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

There was an off-hand sort of liveliness and candour, not to say wit, about Clifford, which always had a charm for the elderly, who generally like frankness above all the cardinal virtues; the squire was exceedingly pleased with him.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Within the last few years, [viii] however, there has been a change for the better.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler

It is, nevertheless, agreed that the tribunals may, if necessary, require the production of a certificate from the competent authority to the effect that the formalities prescribed by law in the [Pg 618] country of origin have been accomplished, as contemplated in Article II.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, [297] to the great games, where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

She has had a change for the better."
— from A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

v, 34): "Things are called false that are naturally apt to appear such as they are not, or what they are not."
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

In four years more, the Waldron Settlement had grown to quite a colony; for the area of civilization extended from the Cayuga to the Owasco, and ten miles north and south; and though the population numbered several hundred families, and the inroads of fashion and pride began to be perceptible there, still it remained a neighborhood; and with few exceptions, the people exchanged neighborly offices and loves throughout the settlement.
— from Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee

The soul wanders about and comes from that spot to this, from this to that, and takes possession of any limbs whatever; it both passes from the beasts to human bodies, and so does our soul into the beasts; and in no lapse of time does it perish.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV by Ovid