The motive is not so much humanity to the slave, of which there are hardly any traces (although Plato allows that many in the hour of peril have found a slave more attached than members of their own family), but the self-respect which the freeman and citizen owes to himself (compare Republic).
— from Laws by Plato

“The facts are as follows,” replied Tibby, who had at times a pedantic lucidity.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I do not know at what hour he came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the other, as fresh and trim as possible.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Nagruyda ang palábad sa ayruplánu, The airplane propeller is whirling.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For if Immortals should have generated, as Mankind doth now; the Earth in a small time, would not have been able to afford them a place to stand on.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Mr. Bucket's eye, after taking a pigeon-flight round the room, alights upon a table where letters are usually put as they arrive.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The methods they took to manage him I'll tell you another time; at present I'll read only the writing.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

If, therefore, as has been elsewhere remarked, the people should in future become more partial to the federal than to the State governments, the change can only result from such manifest and irresistible proofs of a better administration, as will overcome all their antecedent propensities.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

One of the most striking examples of a changeling exists at Plouharnel-Carnac, Brittany, where there is now living a dwarf Breton whom I have photographed and talked with, and who may possibly combine in himself both the abnormal psychical and the abnormal pathological conditions.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It was found at the outset that Reason gave the idea of Space and Time as pure conditions for matter and event.
— 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

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— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

3. Extract of a letter from Gen. Pinckney to the Secretary of State, dated Paris, January 6, 1797, in which he mentions the distressed situation of American citizens, arriving in the ports of France, who were immediately thrown into prison, and could not be released, until an order was got from the American Minister, countersigned by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs; and no Minister being acknowledged there at present, no relief could be afforded.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

But soon after the signing of the said pretended treaty, (that is, on the 29th November, 1781,) it did appear that a principal object thereof was to enable the Nabob to seize upon the estates of his female parents aforesaid, which had been guarantied to them by the East India Company.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But it is a very serious mistake to assume that a person’s avocation in life determines the rank to which he ought, properly, to be assigned.
— from The Life and Adventures of Ben Hogan, the Wickedest Man in the World by Ben (Benedict) Hogan

Could it then be expected that I was thus to smear myself over with hypocrisy, and to a poor broken-spirited fellow-creature, looking [96] imploringly for religious aid and comfort, utter to his confiding ears such doctrines as, at that time, I unhappily and foolishly thought to be no more "than sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal?"
— from Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.

If you are planning a novel outing, you may ring for a railroad representative and he will bring to your house or to your office tickets on any train and to any part of the world, or he will be prepared to arrange a special train for a night’s run or for a three months’ swing around the country.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Let me for a space be free from this dastard age creeping through the veins, dulling the perspective of life and leadening the brain, whose carping companions draw attention to the bitters in the cups of Youth's Delights, and mutter that the golden crowns we struggle for shall tarnish as soon as they are placed on our tired brows!"
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

A well-prepared Lover may do as much In hot bloud as this, and perform't hon[e]stly.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher