As Bering during the first few succeeding days did not make any preparations for a scientific exploration of the country, as he even tried, according to Steller's assurance, to dissuade the latter from making the island a visit, and [Pg 151] as Steller only through a series of oaths and threats (for thus p. 30 must undoubtedly be interpreted) could obtain permission to make, without help or even a guard for protection, a short stay on the island, his anger grew to rage, which reached its culmination on the following morning when Bering suddenly gave orders that the St. Peter should leave the island.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Yes; I say that because they no longer exist after having existed they are miserable.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the sixth century the power of the sovereigns of their kingdom, which was generally known as Ethiopia, had attained its height; but before another had expired the Arabs had invaded the country, and obtained a footing.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

There were three branches of the contest, and he entered them all, laughing at himself bitterly the while in that he was driven to such straits to live.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

By which it will appear how dangerous an advocate a lady is when she applies her eloquence to an ill purpose.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"I have been under a mistake all this time," answered Don Quixote, "for in truth I thought it was a castle, and not a bad one; but since it appears that it is not a castle but an inn, all that can be done now is that you should excuse the payment, for I cannot contravene the rule of knights-errant, of whom I know as a fact (and up to the present I have read nothing to the contrary) that they never paid for lodging or anything else in the inn where they might be; for any hospitality that might be offered them is their due by law and right in return for the insufferable toil they endure in seeking adventures by night and by day, in summer and in winter, on foot and on horseback, in hunger and thirst, cold and heat, exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the hardships of earth."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In strength and beauty he was conspicuous above his equals: tall and straight as a young cypress, his complexion was fair and florid, his eyes sparkling, his shoulders broad, his nose long and aquiline.
— 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

He replied in faltering tones that he had been dazed for a moment, or, rather, he had been thinking of his childhood days; that he thought he would have time to run under the tree, just as street boys rush in front of vehicles driving rapidly past; that he had played at danger; that for the past eight days he felt this desire growing stronger within him, asking himself each time a tree began to fall whether he could pass beneath it without being touched.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If in training soldiers commands are habitually enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not, its discipline will be bad.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Prof. Boss has computed the velocity of the stars in this group to be 45·6 kilometres (about 28 miles) a second towards the “vanishing point,” and he estimated the average parallax of the group to be 0″·025—about 130 years’ journey for light.
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore

He was a big man of thirty-five; a type of the strong-limbed, quick-witted peasant, who is by nature active as a squirrel and industrious as a beaver; and who, if once fired with ambition, soon learns to direct all his energies to a chosen end, and infallibly wins his way from the cart-tracks and the muck-wagons to office stools and black coats.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

“What a horrible ending to a practical joke!”
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

“Artystone has every talent and quality that a daughter of the Achaemenidae ought to possess,” was Darius’s answer, but his brow did not clear as he said the words.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

Everything was directed against her, especially that abominable music.
— from The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He soon finds, to his surprise, that though he endeavours to communicate with those whom he sees, his ethereal voice and his ethereal touch are equally unable to make any impression upon those human organs which are only attuned to coarser stimuli.
— from The New Revelation by Arthur Conan Doyle

The next morning, in a letter to Coryston, he announced his engagement to a girl of nineteen, an orphan, and a pupil at the Royal College of Music.
— from The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[203] the demonstration is but one and the same: As here eai , the angle in the center, shall be prooved to be double to eoi , the angle in the periphery, the right line ou cutting it into two triangles on each side equicrurall; And, by the 17 e vj , at the base equiangles: Whose doubles severally are the angles, eau , of eoa :
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

He was a heap eager to act as Major Fitts’ second in a duel.”
— from Dick Merriwell's Pranks; Or, Lively Times in the Orient by Burt L. Standish