" ( De Excidio Acconis , in Martene et Durand , V. 780.)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And now grief is taking away A my strength, and no long period of my life remains; and in my early days am I cut off; nor is death grievous to me, now about to get rid of my sorrows by death.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He "allowed"—a common word among both black and white—that Tibeats was a mean man, and hoped, as I most earnestly did also, that his master would buy me.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The question next arises: Are there not somewhere forced options in our speculative questions, and can we (as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely escaping dupery) always wait with impunity till the coercive evidence shall have arrived?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

"And, again, that fire, when cold approaches it, must either depart or perish; but that it will never endure, when it has admitted coldness, to continue what it was, fire and cold?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

* Note: From the context of the phrase in Tacitus, "Nam secutae leges etsi alquando in maleficos ex delicto; saepius tamen dissensione ordinum *
— 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

When I speak about ideas underlying accumulation of food stuffs in the Trobriands, I refer to the present, actual psychology of the natives, and I must emphatically declare that I am not offering here any conjectures about the “origins” or about the “history” of the customs and their psychology, leaving this to theoretical and comparative research.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The commerce which had sustained her in prosperity, and her allies in military efficiency, during the war, though checked and harassed by the enemy's cruisers (to which she could pay only partial attention amid the many claims upon her), started with a bound into new life when the war was over.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I have had no news of my father and mother for twelve years or so, and, in my earlier days, I never thought of providing myself with a wife—and now, you know, it wouldn’t do.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Although in method entirely dependent on the Greeks, the Roman yet distinctly and even abruptly rejects all "the useless matter which the Greeks had gathered together, solely in order that the science might appear more difficult to learn."
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

And not only is it powerful and intricate—it is, like all powerful and intricate machines, extremely delicate.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

The old man and his daughter retired, and if my eyes did not deceive me, those of the maiden rested longer on the monk as she bade him “good-night” than was a
— from By the Barrow River, and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy

Thus varices, which are very rare in the deep veins which accompany the arteries, are extremely common in the 303 superficial ones placed beyond the influence of this compression, which art imitates by the application of tight bandages, the effect of which is so advantageous in many external diseases arising from the want of tone, and the relaxation of the parts.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

It is to this circumstance my attention is more especially directed at present by a singular blunder which I have observed in one of the illustrations to Knight's Illustrated Shakspeare .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Antinahuel found himself face to face with Doña Maria; by an instinctive movement each drew back a step, stifling a cry; a cry of stupor on the part of Antinahuel, of surprise on the part of the Linda.
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard

Of these bones the maxilla and præmaxilla, as is more especially demonstrated by their ontogeny in the Urodela, are partly derived from dentigerous plates and partly from membrane plates outside the mouth; while the jugal, and quadratojugal when present, are entirely extra-oral.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Spinning tackle and fly casts have I left upon alder bushes of a score of streams, but instead of bearing it any ill-will I hereby offer it humble and sincere homage, especially as in my early days of fly fishing I, in honest faith and unbroken conviction, used one of its juicy leaves for straightening the gut collar.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

Annie is my eldest daughter, and the child of a most upright man.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore