But in Christian Abyssinia, on the other hand, according to Mr. Goodrich, where bibles and churches are numerous, and preaching and praying are heard every day, nearly all the crimes above enumerated are daily committed.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

When, too, fierce force of fury-winds at sea Sweepeth a navy's admiral down the main With his stout legions and his elephants, Doth he not seek the peace of gods with vows, And beg in prayer, a-tremble, lulled winds And friendly gales?—in vain, since, often up-caught
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

notes lo que me digo , p. 7, 5, and creáis , etc., p. 43, 1. 58-9: tres duros y medio : a humorous expression, duro (dollar) equal to 20 reales , being used for score .
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

As he approached the castle which had first attracted his eye, D’Artagnan was convinced that it could not be there that his friend dwelt; the towers, though solid and as if built yesterday, were open and broken.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development, would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state, the more delicately adapted to it the man.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In addition there is a thread of vanity in confession—as among young peasants who confess to a greater share in a burglary than they actually had (easily discoverable by the magniloquent manner of describing their actual crime).
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

So boundless was his love for Volumnia that at her earnest desire he even married a wife, but still continued to live in the house of his mother.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[A13] have extreme difficulty with s.t. Nagkaigit-igit mi adtung iksamína, We had a hell of a time with that exam.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Cardan and Brassavola both hold that Nullum simplex medicamentum sine noxa , no simple medicine is without hurt or offence; and although Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Diocles of old, in the infancy of this art, were content with ordinary simples: yet now, saith
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Rev. Father Peter Kenney, of Kilmessan, had directed me to John Graham, an old man over seventy years of age, who has lived near Tara most of his life; and after I had found John, and he had led me from rath to rath and then right through the length of the site where once stood the banquet hall of kings and heroes and Druids, as he earnestly described the past glories of Tara to which these ancient monuments bear silent testimony, we sat down in the thick sweet grass on the Sacred Hill and began talking of the olden times in Ireland, and then of the ‘good people’:— The ‘Good People’s’ Music. —‘As sure as you are sitting down I heard the pipes there in that wood (pointing to [Pg 32] a wood on the north-west slope of the Hill, and west of the banquet hall).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Something which begins at home and stays at home every day except Sunday, when it goes to church to talk about itself.
— from The Silly Syclopedia A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

The simple elderly man, who had been a minister, a grand councilor and a viceroy, seemed to recoil slightly as his eyes drooped to the papers about him; then he reached, with a withered hand that trembled, for this new paper and very slowly read it through.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

Henry IV., with all his extravagance, did not spend more than one-tenth of the public income of France upon himself and his court.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Lory took part in the fighting after Orleans and risked his life freely, as he ever did when opportunity offered.
— from The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman

The pair had grown thin and haggard and hollow eyed, despairing with a gaunt terror that stalked behind them, holding each other’s hands and blind to prudence or reprieve, still driving on, believing it would pass, even as they saw miraged before them a distant limit, verdant, shadowy, with mirrors of water and bending and rising grasses.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

Dreadful events are happening every day, all over the world.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But Sulla by gladly accepting such felicitations on his prosperity and such admiration, and even contributing to strengthen these notions and to invest them with somewhat of a sacred character, made all his exploits depend on Fortune; whether it was that he did this for the sake of display, or because he really had such opinions of the deity.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Prince of Novgorod by inheritance, he defeated all his enemies, drove the Germans from Russia, and recovered the Neva from the Swedes, which feat of arms gained him the title of Alexander Nevsky.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris