There is no reason to suppose that he is speaking of the ideal numbers; but he is describing numbers which are pure abstractions, to which he assigns a real and separate existence, which, as 'the teachers of the art' (meaning probably the Pythagoreans) would have affirmed, repel all attempts at subdivision, and in which unity and every other number are conceived of as absolute.
— from The Republic by Plato

There were animals of all kinds, large and small—buffalo, deer, elk, antelope, raccoons, and squirrels; even catamounts and panthers, wolves and foxes, and many others, all fleeing together.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The youths to whose licentious embraces they were abandoned, received a solemn exhortation from the judge, to exert their most strenuous efforts to maintain the honor of Venus against the impious virgin who refused to burn incense on her altars.
— 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

When I got up I shook like a leaf with excitement, and when I opened these beautiful wings and made sure what a rare and so extraordinary perfect specimen I had, my head went round and my legs became so weak with emotion that I had to sit on the ground.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Alter ad arma ruens armis superatur; et alter Nominis auditi sola formidine cessit.
— 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

Nominally, he was subordinate to the viceroy of Mexico, but practically he waged wars, concluded peaces, and received and sent embassies at his own discretion.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

" A reserved and sombre expression had returned to Boldwood's face again, but it poorly cloaked his feelings when he pronounced Bathsheba's name; and his feverish anxiety continued to show its existence by a galloping motion of his fingers upon the side of his thigh as he went down the stairs.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Although the functions of the father of a family and those of the chief magistrate ought to make for the same object, they must do so in such different ways, and their duty and rights are so essentially distinct, that we cannot confound them without forming very false ideas about the fundamental laws of society, and falling into errors which are fatal to mankind.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Indians they will probably always remain, a standing evidence of the confusion of thought of the early voyagers.
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

They meant him to be a priest, and raked and scraped every soldo to educate him.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various

Then Annie, suddenly, as if awakening, rose and said, "Excuse me," and was about to vacate her seat.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

The heat could help boil water and run a steam engine.
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) Atomic Weights; Energy; Electricity by Isaac Asimov

Count Henrik also, had lately received and read a secret epistle from the Drost, in which Aagé conjured him to caution the king respecting the captive Icelander, and above all to keep a watchful eye on whoever approached him.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

He is a real and striking example of the wild Berserker type.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

They attended the public schools and received a solid education there; but the languages were picked up at home, and thoroughly, too.
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

"You weren't cut out for a scholar, that's clear; but you'll come out all right at something else, and perhaps make a bigger name than even 'Yankee' himself, although it wouldn't do to let him hear you say so."
— from My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

When, in 1865, it was decided to make another attempt at laying a cable under the Atlantic, Prof. Thomson, whose reputation was enhanced during the seven intervening years by a number of communications on the theory and practice of submarine telegraphy, was again retained as scientific expert in a consultative sense, with Mr. Cromwell F. Varley as chief electrician.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian