The bodily works of mercy which Christians perform with so much tact and devotion are not such as philanthropy alone would inspire; they are more and less than that.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Onesimus , the runaway slave, had sought the metropolis, the common sink of all nations [100] , probably as a convenient hiding place, where he might escape detection among its crowds and make a livelihood as best he could.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

By all means. ATHENIAN: Let us assume, then, as a first principle in relation both to the body and soul of very young creatures, that nursing and moving about by day and night is good for them all, and that the younger they are, the more they will need it (compare Arist.
— from Laws by Plato

She returned with a bottle and a glass, and found me sitting on the bed with my hands over my face, looking the very picture of abject misery, and, like all pictures, rather untruthful.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The diaries of the Great African Missionary are laid under contribution and the result is not only a fascinating story of adventure and travel, but an autobiographical record of immense value.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“You’ll allow me, at least, Sir, to take the liberty of asking how you’ll prove it?” “How?-why, by knocking them all down your throat.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The credit required by this Section 4(d) may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Adaptation or Collection, at a minimum such credit will appear, if a credit for all contributing authors of the Adaptation or Collection appears, then as part of these credits and in a manner at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing authors.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

In short it was with just cause that we were visited with the penalty of banishment, a mild and lenient one in the eyes of some, but to us the most terrible that could be inflicted upon us.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Predication is an act, understanding a spiritual and transitive operation: its existential basis may well be counted in psychologically and reduced to a stream of immediate presences; but its meaning can be caught only by another meaning, as life only can exemplify life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Often I make a hundred per cent and often, too, I make a mistake and lose money.
— from Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno

After two years at Cambridge, he was obliged to give up the course from ill health, and seek a more active live.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

The negro shook his head, like the earthen image of a mandarin, and laughed loud and heartily.
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Bees have their drones, beaver their hermits, and moose a ladified epicure who draws off from the feeding-yards of the common herd, picks out the sweetest browse of the forest, and gorges herself till fat as a gouty voluptuary.
— from The Story of the Trapper by Agnes C. Laut

[104] It is a happy crowd that slowly wends its way to the tents, and many a laugh is heard as they go over the evening's performance.
— from Camping by Alexandra Agusta Guttman Lockwine

Gerfaut hesitated a moment and looked at her supplicatingly.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 4 by Charles de Bernard

When I had therefore received these instructions, I came into Galilee, and found the people of Sepphoris in no small agony about their country, by reason that the Galileans had resolved to plunder it, on account of the friendship they had with the Romans, and because they had given their right hand, and made a league with Cestius Gallus, the president of Syria.
— from The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus

At last it was found that the two great chemists, fire and water, had worked together in the vast laboratory of the globe, and since then scientific men have decided to work together also; and if they still have a passage at arms occasionally over some doubtful point, yet the results of their investigations are ever drawing them nearer to each other,—since men who study truth, when they reach their goal, must always meet at last on common ground.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

When the interpreter explained the matter to the magistrate that official lost his dignity for a moment and laughed outright.
— from A Journey in Southeastern Mexico by Henry Howard Harper