It seems to have always been suspended in case of necessity, as, for example, when a man is famished and has nothing else with which to nourish himself.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

His death, only four months after his victory, was considered by the people as an unforeseen and fatal event, which destroyed, in a moment, the hopes of the rising generation.
— 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

Most important as a Mediterranean port, where fishing and fish eating was (and still is) good.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Than these no deadlier portent nor any fiercer plague of divine wrath hath issued from the Stygian waters; winged things with maidens' countenance, bellies dropping filth, and clawed hands and faces ever wan with hunger. . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

And the other poor soul—to escape a nominal shame which was owing to the weakness of her character, degrading herself to the real shame of bondage to a tyrant who scorned her—a man whom to avoid for ever was her only chance of salvation… This is our parish church, isn't it?
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Thunder is rare both in winter and in summer 394 , but from 81 different causes; the air, which is condensed in the winter, is made still more dense by a thicker covering of clouds, while the exhalations from the earth, being all of them rigid and frozen, extinguish whatever fiery vapour it may receive.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Lastly, there must be societies in which people are fairly equal, where the tyranny of public opinion may be moderate, where pleasure rather than vanity is queen; where this is not so, fashion stifles taste, and we seek what gives distinction rather than delight.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She lay late in bed, refusing the coffee and fried eggs which the friendly Irish servant thrust through her door, and hating the intimate domestic noises of the house and the cries and rumblings of the street.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

On the third day, she returned me my letter, accompanying it with a few exhortations which froze my blood.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Enough has been said of music, which makes a fair ending with love.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They operate a fur exchange which, though a private business, is conducted somewhat after the manner of a produce exchange.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street

Here is the Honeysuckle, the wildest, the most elastic and undulating of plants, under the severe discipline of order and artistic symmetry, assuming a strict and chaste propriety, a formal elegance, which render it at once monumental and dignified.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We have more than once referred to the pressure of the air which exerts a great influence upon bodies in motion, but a few experiments will make this more obvious, and clearly demonstrate the fact.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Calling Admiral Jones an “English pirate and renegado,” he adds, “Jones, not meeting with the consideration he expected in America, made a tender of his services to the court of St. Petersburg; and the British officers, applicants for employment, went in a body to the amount of near thirty to lay down their commissions, declaring it was impossibly to serve under him, or to act with him in any measure or capacity.” capacity.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

To illustrate by a few examples: We are all convinced of the existence of an exterior world, and any one who is not an idealist will call this conviction a reasonable certainty, and yet only a few will be able to answer the subtle questions of a sceptic.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

After which, the ship's head being already shoreward, the rudderbands were loosed, and a final effort was made to [Pg 143] save their vessel by running for a creek; until falling into a place where two seas met, the ship struck, and some on planks, and some on broken pieces of the wreck, all got safe to shore.
— from Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner by Woodes Rogers