There have been a few, who, quite independently of rewards and punishments or of posthumous reputation, or any other influence of public opinion, have been willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of others.
— from Gorgias by Plato

If you care to take the trouble, cut a hole in a piece of opaque paper the size of the head and placing it over the illustration look at the face without the influence of these outside lines; and note how much more equally divided the attention is between the two eyes without the emphasis given to the one by the mirror.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

But it has always been the pride and policy of Oriental princes to display the titles and attributes of their omnipotence; to upbraid a nation of slaves with their true name and abject condition, and to enforce, by cruel and insolent threats, the rigor of their absolute commands.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For example, a pint of ordinary pasteurized milk will lead to scurvy, whereas a quart in most cases will be sufficient to tide the baby over until the period of mixed feeding.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Legree now turned to Tom’s trunk, which, previous to this, he had been ransacking, and, taking from it a pair of old pantaloons and dilapidated coat, which Tom had been wont to put on about his stable-work, he said, liberating Tom’s hands from the handcuffs, and pointing to a recess in among the boxes, “You go there, and put these on.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

If, however, in any distribution of pleasures and privileges, or of pains and burdens, considerations of desert do not properly come in ( i.e. if the good or evil to be distributed have no relation to any conduct on the part of the persons who are to receive either)—or if it is practically impossible to take such considerations into account—then Common Sense seems to fall back on simple equality as the principle of just apportionment.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

v [A; a12] be a prisoner out on parole. -i(←) n parolee.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And when Oil of Vitriol is drawn off from its weight of Nitre, and from both the Ingredients a compound Spirit of Nitre is distilled, and two parts of this Spirit are poured on one part of Oil of Cloves or Carraway Seeds, or of any ponderous Oil of vegetable or animal Substances, or Oil of Turpentine thicken'd with a little Balsam of Sulphur, and the Liquors grow so very hot in mixing, as presently to send up a burning Flame; does not this very great and sudden Heat argue that the two Liquors mix with violence, and that their Parts in mixing run towards one another with an accelerated Motion, and clash with the greatest Force?
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

What rescues a part of our passions from this pathological plight, and gives them some other function than merely to be, is the ideal relevance, the practical and mutually representative character, which they sometimes acquire.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Croesus, marching his army through certain waste lands near Sardis, met with an infinite number of serpents, which the horses devoured with great appetite, and which Herodotus says was a prodigy of ominous portent to his affairs.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The merely well-to-do and poorer classes wear clothes woven of cotton, silk, and piña, or of piña and hemp, or of hemp or bamboo.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

Miss Briskett sat still, a pillar of outraged propriety.
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

There are plenty of other places that can be forced in."
— from Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters by William Murray Graydon

"These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere?
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

7. The disloyalty of a part of our population.
— from The Numerical Strength of the Confederate Army An examination of the argument of the Hon. Charles Francis Adams and others by Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison) McKim

There was practically no rebellion against physical features of imprisonment and of prison discipline, there was no protest against the severity of the material pains and penalties of our punishment, but we yearned mightily for unselfish brotherly love and treasured to a degree unknown to those to whom it has never been denied, such fractions thereof as we received from each other.
— from After Prison--What? by Maud Ballington Booth

Among phanerogams, or ordinary plants, are many examples of phosphorescence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

“The fact that we do so,—under a pledge solemnly and publicly given, of never revealing anything which could lead even to a possibility of other peoples of the earth overtaking us in the progress which we have made in the arts and sciences,—is my excuse for refusing to tell you what your very natural curiosity has asked.”
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith