Well then, my dear friend Euthyphro, do tell me, for my better instruction and information, what proof have you that in the opinion of all the gods a servant who is guilty of murder, and is put in chains by the master of the dead man, and dies because he is put in chains before he who bound him can learn from the interpreters of the gods what he ought to do with him, dies unjustly; and that on behalf of such an one a son ought to proceed against his father and accuse him of murder.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

Mr. Spenlow shut the door, motioned me to a chair, and stood on the hearth-rug in front of the fireplace.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Meanwhile the chiefs at Samos, and especially Thrasybulus, who from the moment that he had changed the government had remained firmly resolved to recall Alcibiades, at last in an assembly brought over the mass of the soldiery, and upon their voting for his recall and amnesty, sailed over to Tissaphernes and brought Alcibiades to Samos, being convinced that their only chance of salvation lay in his bringing over Tissaphernes from the Peloponnesians to themselves.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The clergyman stands a step or two above them, and reads the betrothal.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

However, never mind this now; it’s not very interesting to you, and I am sick of the subject.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Some imperfect (tronquees) quotations; some passages, omitted unintentionally or designedly cast a suspicion on the honesty (bonne foi) of the author; and his violation of the first law of history—increased to my eye by the prolonged attention with which I occupied myself with every phrase, every note, every reflection—caused me to form upon the whole work, a judgment far too rigorous.
— 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

[591] Dr. Pick and others use a system which consists in linking together any two ideas to be remembered by means of an intermediate idea which will be suggested by the first and suggest the second, and so on through the list.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

As soon as the legions gave way, the lighter and more active squadrons of the second line rode sword in hand into the intervals, and completed the disorder.
— 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

and sprang over to the door.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

After proceeding a few yards along the avenue, she sat down to arrange her dress, and then took a survey of the place.
— from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

When partially recovered, he found himself suffering from severe bruises, and especially from a sprain of the left knee, which was undermost when the horse came down.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are three ways: The teacher may ask the pupils to read the lesson silently at their seats or at home and come prepared to participate in the discussion; or he may ask some of them to read the lesson aloud; or he, himself, may read it to the pupils.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Department of Education

But when, in the afternoon of the day on which that trial took place, the appalling news of Katherine's acquittal and Reginald's arrest reached her ears, she was thrown into a state of the most painful excitement.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

If we carry on the line of the belt upwards to the right, we are conducted to another star of the first magnitude, Aldebaran, which strongly resembles Betelgeuze in its ruddy [Pg 419] colour.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

Without being told anything she was taken with the army as a bringer of good luck; she was exhibited to the enemy as a powerful enchantress, and they, especially if they were in mortal sin, feared lest she should cast a spell over them.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Among them is the Chevalier de Valois, a seigneur of the old court, a man of infinite wit and taste; then there is Monsieur le Marquis d'Esgrignon and Mademoiselle Armande, his sister" (she bit her tongue with vexation),—"a woman remarkable in her way," she added.
— from The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac

Descending the avenue, at the point of access afforded by a road that wound down the hill-side, towards a village distant about half a mile, as you advanced, the eye was first arrested by a singular octagonal turret of brick, of more recent construction than the house; and in all probability occupying the place where the gateway stood of yore.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

Its name is derived from a saint of the Greek liturgy,—St.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

Much further in the interior, in the small Sierra del Tremédal, or district of Albarracia, in the province of Terruel, eruptions and shocks have been very frequent since the most remote periods; the black porphyry is there seen traversing the altered strata of the oolitic formation.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle