He also received such oaths from them as are proper to secure those that assist one another from the fear of discovery; and he was then of good hope that they should depose Athaliah.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Though I have every reason to believe, that between the prostate of the male and the uterus of the female, the same amount of analogy exists, as between a coccygeal ossicle and the complete vertebral form elsewhere situated in the spinal series, I am as far from regarding the two former to be in all respects structurally or functionally alike, as I am from entertaining the like idea in respect to the two latter.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

But he was sitting aloof, apart from the gods, in his temple where many pray, and receiving sweet offerings from mortal men.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Being a rough soldier of fortune himself, he had never been a favourite with the officers of his regiment; who had a contempt for Irishmen, as Englishmen sometimes will have, and used to mock his brogue, and his blunt uncouth manners.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

A regular scale of fines, from ten to two hundred pounds of silver, was curiously ascertained, according to the distinction of rank and fortune, to punish the crime of assisting at a schismatic conventicle; and if the fine had been levied five times, without subduing the obstinacy of the offender, his future punishment was referred to the discretion of the Imperial court.
— 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

Near here a light as big as a pot was seen, and rays shot out from it in all directions.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It might correct the moral feelings of a numerous class of readers, to suppose a Review set on foot, the object of which should be to criticise all the chief works presented to the public by our ribbon-weavers, calico-printers, cabinet-makers, and china-manufacturers; which should be conducted in the same spirit, and take the same freedom with personal character, as our literary journals.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And I put the helm hard up, and the Hispaniola swung round rapidly and ran stem on for the low, wooded shore.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Meanwhile a relieving squadron of fifty vessels had sailed from Athens and the rest of the confederacy for Egypt.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[pg 32] farther, on the main stream, Città di Castello recalls the story of a long siege which it valiantly sustained against Braccio da Montone, surnamed Fortebraccio (Strongarm), another renowned soldier of fortune of the fifteenth century.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

There was a report set on foot by the Jesuits that in his old age when on his death-bed he recovered his courage and declared himself a Christian, whereupon he was immediately carried off by the Japanese officers to the torture of the Fosse , where he perished a penitent martyr.
— from Japan by David Murray

The plants that followed in its wake were a few small ferns, whose light spores were more readily carried on the breeze than any regular seeds of flowering plants.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

Once more, ask these same men and women whether their early knowledge of sex came from pure and reliable sources or from vulgar playmates and depraved servants; and with rare exceptions it is found that vulgarity made the strongest impression in the first lessons concerning the great facts of life.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

"What makes you say that?" "Oh, well, he's a romantic sort of fellow.
— from The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The corramou is the salmon of the Antiguan fisheries, as far as regards superiority of flavour.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

The furnace is covered with a removable slab of fireclay, N, which is provided with one or more vents, n , for the escaping gases.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

The central and southwestern parts are inhabited by an agricultural people dwelling in villages, and governed by chiefs, under a rude species of feudalism.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

A retired stand of flags of the former may be seen in the Royal United Service Museum, bearing this inscription: “Colours of the 43rd, 1818-27, one of the regiments of the celebrated Light Division of Peninsula fame.
— from The Flags of Our Fighting Army Including standards, guidons, colours and drum banners by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

Of course, he did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time, drank freely and borrowed money on all sides.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce