If I loiter 10 for a moment, you instantly make a raid upon me, I said, and have no mercy; I have hardly escaped the first and second waves, and you seem not to be aware that you are now bringing upon me the third, which is the greatest and heaviest.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When Cassibelan heard of this, and had formerly taken many other losses, and found his country sore wasted, and himself left almost alone by the defection of the other cities, he sent ambassadors by Comius of Arras to Cæsar, to intreat with him concerning his own submission; the which Cæsar did accept, and taking hostages, assessed the realm of Britain to a yearly tribute, to be paid to the people of Rome, giving strait charge to Cassibelan that he should not seek any revenge upon Mandubrace or the Trinobantes, and so withdrew his army to the sea again.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Speak, idol of my heart, tell me your reasons, and rely upon my love; it is the guarantee of my ready compliance in everything that can give you pleasure.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The pronouns quis and quī , which we have learned in their interrogative and relative uses, may also be indefinite; and nearly all the other indefinite pronouns are compounds of quis or quī and declined almost like them.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But, if these are compressed, and rolled up more closely together, and then break without any discharge of fire, i. e. without thunder, they produce a squall, which is named Typhon 387 , or an Ecnephias in a state of agitation.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Some pages afterwards, in again remarking upon M. Cousin, Hamilton quotes from him as follows: "The condition of intelligence is difference ; and an act of knowledge is only possible where there exists a plurality of terms.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

I wear a gold watch and chain, a ring upon my little finger, and a long-tailed coat; and I use a great deal of bear’s grease—which, taken in conjunction with the ring, looks bad.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They have no right upon me, dearest, and no one has a right upon me.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Amongst the birds, the Gallinæ and Anseres ,—from which Orders we derive our domestic poultry, whether terrestrial or aquatic,—and our game, form the step next below the ruminants, or cattle: and we are thus again led towards man, and are symbolically instructed in those domestic and social qualities which endear us to each other, best promote the general welfare, and render us most like good spirits and the Divinity himself; of whom the perpetual recurrence of animals exhibiting these amiable and useful qualities is calculated to impress upon us some notion.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

I now felt her arm resting upon mine, and still more felt her soul close to my own.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

Sir W. Pen told me that I need not fear any reflection upon my Lord for their ill successe at Argier, for more could not be done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

Or in our everyday present, p. 79 the rise of schools of all kinds, primary, secondary, higher up to the current movement towards university colleges, and from these to civic and regional universities, might again be traced.
— from Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick, Sir

The wind, which had died out shortly after they had started on their row that morning, now sprang up in fitful gusts, with a rather uncanny, moaning sound, as if it was testing its strength before venturing to develop into a howling storm.
— from Frank and Andy Afloat Or, The Cave on the Island by Vance Barnum

The next day, Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, who had always voted with the South against any restriction upon Missouri, introduced the famous clause prohibiting Slavery in territory north of 36° 30´ outside this State, which constitutes the eighth section of the Missouri Act.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Levasseur and rang up Major d'Astrignac on the telephone.
— from The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc

As a matter of fact, the lady and I have had a misunderstanding, at a rather unfortunate moment, as I’d just imprudently taken her into my confidence
— from The Princess Virginia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson