fills up the tale of our oarsmen, and equips my crews with arms.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

When they had done all this and had prepared the feast, they ate it, and every man had his full and equal share, so that all were satisfied, and King Agamemnon gave Ajax some slices cut lengthways down the loin, as a mark of special honour.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

—This fable contains and enforces many just and serious considerations; some whereof have been long since well observed, but some again remain perfectly untouched.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Can it be that all Earth men are as you?
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Frank turned instantly to Emma, to claim her former promise; and boasted himself an engaged man, which his father looked his most perfect
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Most of the works of art are esteemed beautiful, in proportion to their fitness for the use of man, and even many of the productions of nature derive their beauty from that source.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But the intense eagerness and joy depicted in the face of Newman Noggs, which was suffused with perspiration; the surprising energy with which he directed a constant succession of blows towards a particular panel about five feet eight from the ground, and still worked away in the most untiring and persevering manner, would have sufficiently explained to the attentive observer, that his imagination was thrashing, to within an inch of his life, his body’s most active employer, Mr. Ralph Nickleby.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Having finished this detail, he asked the physician's sentiments of his wife's distemper, and being told that her life was in extreme jeopardy, begged he would use his utmost endeavours in her behalf, and even made him a tender of an extraordinary fee, which was refused.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And although embodying many important historical facts which should have commanded for it a word-wide circulation, but a few copies of this invaluable treasury of religious knowledge have ever found their way into this country.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

But attention must certainly be drawn to such an opinion as the following: "Measured by the standard of consistency, inspiration, and completeness, these writings leave very much to be desired, and even measured by the ordinary human standard, they suffer from not a few imperfections."
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner

Why doth he not give all his converts an equal measure of his sanctifying grace?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

You will have to keep reminding them that an exchange means always giving something for what they get; and if I were you, Marie, when they began to tell of a want I should ask at once, "But what have you to give?"
— from Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

Instead of the impractical advice of Malthus to marry late, the Neo-Malthusians advised early marriage, the use of contraceptive methods, and children born according to the earning capacity of the father; a man’s station in life should determine the number of his children.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

"Ah!" ejaculated Madame de Tourville, triumphantly.
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

And as each man came up to her, "An' them boots!
— from The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco

Whether to buy an internal or an external modem is a question of needs: A portable computer with an internal modem is easier to bring on travels than an external modem with a modem cable and a power adapter.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Tables containing jars and many curious vessels, wires in every direction, bottles filled and empty, maps and drawings, and instruments of peculiar form and shape, were seen about the room.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

The hunters, however, who have hitherto been sent after timber, mention that there is a low ground on the opposite side of the river, about eight miles above us by land, and more than twice that distance by water, in which we may probably find trees large enough for our purposes.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks