Begone, thou art such a plague to thy benefactor and thy brother, and may that evil conscience of thine go along with thee; while I still overcome my relations by kindness, and am so far from avenging myself of them, as they deserve, that I bestow greater benefits upon them than they are worthy of.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Or how little strange should it appear to any rational man, if a lechering rogue, together with his mole-catching abettor, be entrapped in the flagrant act of suborning his daughter, and stealing her out of his house, though herself consent thereto, that the father in such a case of stain and infamy by them brought upon his family, should put them both to a shameful death, and cast their carcasses upon dunghills to be devoured and eaten up by dogs and swine, or otherwise fling them a little further off to the direption, tearing, and rending asunder of their joints and members by the wild beasts of the field (as unworthy to receive the gentle, the desired, the last kind embraces of the great Alma Mater, the earth, commonly called burial).
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

They love and respect one another ten times the more after a good set family arguing bout, and go back, one to his curacy, another to his chambers, and another to his regiment, freshened for work, and more than ever convinced that the Browns are the height of company.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

From Athens we derive those astonishing performances, which will serve as models to every corrupt age.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To pass by my other afflictions, I have lost five children under the most pitiful conditions possible: for the five I lost one by one when each was my only child, suffering these blows of bereavement in such a manner that each child was born to one already bereaved.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

But, magnificent, costly, and useful as it is, it derives its chief beauty from the benevolent motive to which it owes its birth: to alleviate the miseries of a starving population, and make their employment conducive to national benefit, during one of those awful visitations
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Nagbúlag ang managtrátu, The engaged couple separated.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They assured me that every cast of the cup is a picture of all one's life to come, and every transaction and circumstance is delineated with the exactest certainty."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

All this, unexpectedly encountered, took Don Quixote somewhat aback, and struck terror into the heart of Sancho; but the next instant Don Quixote was glad of it, believing that some new perilous adventure was presenting itself to him, and under this impression, and with a spirit prepared to face any danger, he planted himself in front of the cart, and in a loud and menacing tone, exclaimed, "Carter, or coachman, or devil, or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art, whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat than an ordinary cart."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Whether the curative and fertilising virtues ascribed to the ashes of the Yule log, which are supposed to heal cattle as well as men, to enable cows to calve, and to promote the fruitfulness of the earth, may not be derived from the same ancient source, is a question which deserves to be considered.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But it was the form of his unhappy friend, Cinq Mars, that first riveted De Blenau’s attention; and he continued to gaze upon him with painful interest, while, standing beside the block on which he was to suffer, he calmly unloosed his collar, and made the executioner cut away the glossy curls of his hair, which otherwise, falling down his neck, might have impeded the blow of the axe.
— from Richelieu: A Tale of France, v. 3/3 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

This is the reason why sculpture is as it were natural to antiquity, and appeared there with an incomparable splendor, before which painting somewhat paled, [164] whilst among the moderns it has been eclipsed by painting, and has remained very inferior to it, by reason of the extreme difficulty of bringing stone and marble to express Christian sentiment, without which, material beauty suffers; so that our sculpture is too insignificant to be beautiful, too mannered to be expressive.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

They assure me that every car in the garage has been requisitioned by the Government.
— from Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

She would have stayed for it, but I pushed her out; got her and my two eldest children downstairs (where two of the servant were now got), and asked for the keys.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

All this I heard, and more than ever chafed at the slackness of our laggard steeds.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

A short Example I will set down, in hunting the Third up, and making the Extream Changes between the two farthest Bells from it.—
— from Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes by Fabian Stedman

"I am more than ever convinced we must look to other resources for wealth and independence, and consider politics merely as an amusement,—and in that light 'tis best to be in Opposition, which I am afraid we are likely to be for some years again.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

Pg 282] purpose—goodness knows what!—"I should say that I am more than ever convinced that you ought to have some person to look after you."
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

I have had the responsibility of the entire work now for nearly two months, and am more than ever convinced that the time was ripe for it
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

He was barely in time, for in another moment the express came whirling by with such a roar and a rattle, and making such a blast of wind as it went, that the children had to shut their eyes and cling on tightly.
— from Bosom Friends: A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil