A mender of old shoes, or patcher up of clothes, who made the shoes or clothes worse than he received them, could not have remained thirty days undetected, and would very soon have starved; whereas during more than forty years, Protagoras was corrupting all Hellas, and sending his disciples from him worse than he received them, and he was never found out.
— from Meno by Plato

His bezant notes, I agree with Marsden, here represent the Chinese notes for one and more ounces of silver.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

His entertainments consisted of three entries, or at most of only six.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Thus it was with us, nearly all the time we were on the coast, and many of our Sabbaths were lost entirely to us.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

But in this general survey, you may be sure, the most material spot of me was not excused the strictest visitation; nor was it but agreed, that I had not the least reason to be diffident of passing even for a maid, on occasion; so inconsiderable a flaw had my preceding adventures created there, and so soon had the blemish of an over-stretch been repaired and worn out at any age, and in my naturally small make in that part.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Up, and after doing some business at the office, I to London, and there, in my way, at my old oyster shop in Gracious Streete, bought two barrels of my fine woman of the shop, who is alive after all the plague, which now is the first observation or inquiry we make at London concerning everybody we knew before it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Montoni blamed himself for having asked the question, for a second thought convinced him, that a man of Orsino's suspicious temper was not likely to trust any of the persons present with the knowledge of his asylum.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

They are merely on opposite sides of the field.
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

Nor was all the brutality by any means on one side; neither will I pretend that I was getting much more than my deserts in the defeat that threatened to end in my extinction.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Those numerous grammarians who, like Lindley Murray, make passive verbs a distinct class, for the most part, very properly state the participles of a verb to be " three ;" but, to represent the two voices as modifications of one species of verbs, and then say, "The Participles are three ," as many recent writers do, is manifestly absurd: because two threes should be six .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Saw Rogers, and had a note from Lady Melbourne, who says, it Pg 3 is said I am 'much out of spirits.'
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

—The laws of the United States provide that if any master or officer shall unjustifiably beat, wound, or imprison any of the crew, or withhold from them suitable food and nourishment, or inflict upon them any cruel and unusual punishment, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, and fined not exceeding $1000 for each offence.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

Bishop Gibson says [336] of me, that pretending to raise the Actions and Miracles of our Saviour to a more exalted and spiritual Meaning, I [Pg 62] have labour'd to take away the Reality of them, and by that to destroy one of the principal Evidences of Christianity .
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

Sometimes Locker might seem to overlook the dominant features, the main object of the existence, either of a man or of some piece of man's work, in his sensitively keen perception of the beauty, or the lapse from beauty, of some trait of character or bit of workmanship.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

The impulse of the crowd ran faster than his horse, and even the enraged mountaineers in amazed wonder sprang out of his way, and, far in the rear, a few privileged ones saw the frantic horse plunge towards his stable, stop suddenly, and pitch his mottled rider through the door and mercifully out of sight.
— from Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories by Fox, John, Jr.