Swearing that he would permit no one to humiliate well-born young men contrary to right and law, Eumolpus checked the threats of the savage persecutors by word and by deed.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The privileges of graduation, besides, are in many countries necessary, or at least extremely convenient, to most men of learned professions, that is, to the far greater part of those who have occasion for a learned education.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I was not without a faint hope of being commended for the stern resolution which I had displayed in accomplishing the difficult task—a task which, I afterwards learned, even Covey himself would not have undertaken, without first driving the oxen for some time in the open field, preparatory to their going into the woods.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

expediente m expedient; (judicial) proceeding in chambers; the papers (of a case at law etc.); cubrir el—— make up a full set of papers, c save appearances.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Those best known are Antiope, Leda, Europa, Callisto, Alcmene, Semele, Io, and Danae.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

As when a flock Of ravenous Fowl, though many a League remote, Against the day of Battel, to a Field, Where Armies lie encampt, come flying, lur’d With sent of living Carcasses design’d For death, the following day, in bloodie fight.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The selections upon "The Natural Person versus the Social and Conventional Person" and "The Divided Self and the Moral Consciousness" indicate the more usual and less extreme conflicts of opposing sentiments and interests within the organization of personality.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Erasmus asks boldly, ‘Qui factum est ut hæc epistola apud Latinos extet, cum nullus sit apud Græcos, ne veterum quidem, qui testetur eam a se lectam?’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Oh, doctor, something a little easier,” cried Bee, clasping her hands, “just at first!”
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

If a man's moral springtime is slow, says one of our social reformers, society fits up for him a little ethical conservatory, with steam heat and southern exposure, where the buds are given a little judicious stimulating and pushing.
— from A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis

"Four years of the Huns, and then we came blowin' in to lift the lid and let 'em come up out of the cellars.
— from Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford

Had the Austrian general, Heller, who was second in command to the Archduke Louis, either cut off the bridge, or taken effectual measures to oppose its passage, the great events of the campaign might have assumed a very different feature.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

Suddenly a loud, exultant cry from Mackenzie caused his [253] companions to strain their eyes away to Duddingston, and there they saw high in the air the monster aërial machine gradually looming through the mist, a vague and shadowy outline.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

A few minutes later we were no longer at an ancient castle in the wilds of Sicily, but in a luxurious English country house at afternoon tea....
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

There are eleven original portraits of Thomas Paine, besides a death-mask, a bust, and the profile copied in this work from a seal used on the release at Lewes, elsewhere cited (i., p. 33).
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway