Farther, they make as many partitions and divisions in hell and purgatory, and describe as many different sorts and degrees of punishment as if they were very well acquainted with the soil and situation of those infernal regions.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

These several Adventures, with the Knight's Behaviour in them, gave me as pleasant a Day as ever I met with in any of my Travels.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Suffren, on the other hand, found all ports alike destitute of naval supplies, while the natural advantages of Trincomalee made its possession an evident object of importance to him; and Hughes so understood it.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

So up and put my clothes in order against tomorrow’s journey, and then at noon at dinner, and all the afternoon almost playing and discoursing with my wife with great content, and then to my office there to put papers in order against my going.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Aramis, Porthos and D’Artagnan drew their chairs near him.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Concupiscible covets always pleasant and delightsome things, and abhors that which is distasteful, harsh, and unpleasant. Irascible, quasi [992] aversans per iram et odium , as avoiding it with anger and indignation.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

for granting that this action may be hateful to the gods, still piety and impiety are not adequately defined by these distinctions, for that which is hateful to the gods has been shown to be also pleasing and dear to them.'
— from Euthyphro by Plato

And suddenly his quick eye discerned that Tientietnikov’s estate was not being worked as it might have been—that much neglect and listlessness and pilfering and drunkenness was abroad; and on perceiving this, he thought to himself: “What a fool is that Tientietnikov!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

So it was resolved they should make a progress, and divide the ways between them; and Obadiah took one road, and the king another.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He reiterated certain words and phrases a dozen times over, fifty times over, just as he attached more or less importance to the idea which they represented.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

My old friends Mr. and Mrs. Mathews, and their clever son, have arrived at Paris and dined here yesterday.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

This cathedral ranks as one of the most curious in France, and, with its alien plan and details, has ever been the object of the profound admiration of all who have studied its varied aspects.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Romulus is said to have erected in a wood a temple to a god called Asylćus, where he "received and protected all, delivering none back— neither the servant to his master, the debtor to his creditor, nor the murderer into the hands of the magistrate; saying it was a privileged place, and they could so maintain it by an order of the holy oracle; insomuch that the city grew presently very populous."
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

The French were routed at all points, and darkness came on, which enabled many to escape that would otherwise have fallen into our hands.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

In the first volume of this series, called "Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle," I related how Tom made the acquaintance of Mr. Damon, afterward purchasing a damaged motor-cycle from the odd gentleman.
— from Tom Swift in Captivity, Or, A Daring Escape By Airship by Victor Appleton

Now, by what a pointed answer, drawn from this one case, might Charles have replied to the enemies we have noticed—to those, like so many historians since his day, who taxed him with studying Casuistry for the purposes of intrigue—to those, like Milton and Henderson, who taxed him with exercising his private conscience on public questions.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Wet it as little as possible; a damp cloth, only, should be used to cleanse it.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

It prohibits unjust and unreasonable charges, special rates, rebates, drawbacks, undue or unreasonable preferences, advantages, prejudices and disadvantages, as well as all discriminations between connecting lines.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

The Church certainly is a crude and boorish institution, that is repugnant to an intelligence with any pretence at delicacy, to a [Pg 34] really modern taste.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The air was sweet and pungent and damp and fresh, the sky high and blue, and across the granite face of Tamalpais a last scarf of mist was floating.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris