“To take a pick itself,” said Mary Jane, “after all your dancing.”
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Though placed between the two great empires of Rome and Parthia, it still maintains 3806 its independence; never failing, at the very first moment that a rupture between them is threatened, to attract the careful attention of both.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“Now, the beginning and the greatest good of all these things is prudence, on which account prudence is something more valuable than even philosophy, inasmuch as all the other virtues spring from it, teaching us that it is not possible to [472] live pleasantly unless one also lives prudently, and honourably, and justly; and that one cannot live prudently, and honestly, and justly, without living pleasantly; for the virtues are connate with living agreeably, and living agreeably is inseparable from the virtues.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I have no literary propensities; but in spite of the latter advantage, in all probability I shall make no exertion at all; so that your energy, damped by disgust and disappointment, and my laziness, will end in the same thing, and we shall both return like bad pennies to our native shores.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In the year 1322, likewise—Dante, very much his friend, having died in the year before, to his great sorrow—he went to Lucca, and at the request of Castruccio, then Lord of that city, his birthplace, he made a panel in S. Martino with a Christ in air and four Saints, Protectors of that city—namely, S. Peter, S. Regulus, S. Martin, and S. Paulinus—who appear to be recommending a Pope and an Emperor, who, according to what is believed by many, are Frederick of Bavaria and the Anti-Pope Nicholas V. Some, likewise, believe that Giotto designed the castle and fortress of Giusta, which is impregnable, at San Frediano, in the same city of Lucca.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Plato says that they of the city of Sais have records in writing of eight thousand years; and that the city of Athens was built a thousand years before the said city of Sais; Epicurus, that at the same time things are here in the posture we see, they are alike and in the same manner in several other worlds; which he would have delivered with greater assurance, had he seen the similitude and concordance of the new discovered world of the West Indies with ours, present and past, in so many strange examples.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

These belong to the fourth of those classes, and partake, in some measure, of the nature of the last.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The lover of the fair loves them all; Another person, I said, might fairly reply as you do; but a man of pleasure like yourself ought to know that all who are in the flower of youth do somehow or other raise a pang or emotion in a lover’s breast, and are thought by him to be worthy of his affectionate regards.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Fortunately I had a good deal of employment with my gun; for, besides gazelles, antelopes, a lynx, florikans, and partridges, I shot many very beautiful little honey-birds, as well as other small birds.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

I am a Russian; all my family are perishing in Siberian mines,"—dismally.
— from Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath

However, by aesthetic progress is sometimes meant, not what the two words coupled together really signify, but the ever-increasing accumulation of our historical knowledge, which makes us able to sympathize with all the artistic products of all peoples and of all times, or, as is said, to make our taste more catholic.
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

Well, I am not in a position to judge a person, whether a person is speaking modern Russian or not.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

It was not till I tried addressing them as March and Mrs. March that they stirred under my hand with fresh impulse, and set about the work assigned them as people in something more than their second youth.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

Our interiors, as halls and churches, will assume new development and grandeur by iron, since we have seen 200 feet span at Birmingham without abutment, and 150 feet at Paris in still more enduring structure.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

“Yes, we must see about him,” said Charles, with pale face and unsteady voice, a gnawing pain in the region of his heart—a sensation that is experienced only when a person is strongly moved.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro