Omnino duo sunt genera largorum, quorum alteri prodigi, alteri liberales: prodigi, qui epulis et viscerationibus et gladiatorum muneribus, ludorum venationumque apparatu pecunias profundunt in eas res, quarum memoriam aut brevem aut nullam omnino sint relicturi, 56 liberales autem, qui suis facultatibus aut captos a praedonibus redimunt aut aes alienum suscipiunt amicorum aut in filiarum collocatione adiuvant aut opitulantur in re vel quaerenda vel augenda.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He insists, furthermore, that the peace concluded with their defeated enemies by the victorious allied Central Powers must manifest clearly that it is no obstacle to the development of an international law which would prevent the waging of war as much as possible, and would settle the armament question on an international basis, and also that this alliance does not wish to continue to fight after peace has been concluded, but will pursue a peaceable policy in every respect; that it does not wish to be exclusive, but is desirous of effecting a friendly rapprochement with the countries today opposed to it.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

To this I might have paid less heed but for its disquieting confirmation on a later day at a psychic parlour in Edgware Road.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Mothers will complain that children seem to take a perverse pleasure in evoking reproof, appeals, entreaties, and exhortations.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron

George M. Mowbray, the accomplished chemist, who came to Titusville in 1860 and played a prominent part in early refining, disposed of a thousand barrels in New York.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

I can quite remember—younger people than I can remember—the time when all good and proper personages in England regarded the authoress of "Indiana" as a sort of feminine fiend, endowed with a hideous power for the destruction of souls and an inextinguishable thirst for the slaughter of virtuous beliefs.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

It was not until the book had gained a predominant position in Egyptian religious thought that it would have been needful to incorporate into it the ideas of a rival theology.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce