The custom of our country would have both of them proven well and truly, and would have us yield to the one sort of lover and avoid the other, and therefore encourages some to pursue, and others to fly; testing both the lover and beloved in contests and trials, until they show to which of the two classes they respectively belong.
— from Symposium by Plato

The gods whom they propitiate by worship are these only:—Hestia most of all, then Zeus and the Earth, supposing that Earth is the wife of Zeus, and after these Apollo, and Aphrodite Urania, and Heracles, and Ares.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

His terror indeed arises from that: the good and the evil seem to be distributed without reference to human conduct.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Yesterday, as from an eminence I beheld the numbers, the discipline, and the spirit, of my armies, the earth seemed to tremble under my feet; and I said in my heart, Surely thou art the king of the world, the greatest and most invincible of warriors.
— 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

" In her anxiety to keep her voice quite calm, Jo made it rather cool, and the frosty little monosyllable at the end seemed to chill the Professor, for his smile vanished, as he said gravely...
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

And the expense, she thought, stepping into the tight-buttoned cab.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

shun, avoid &c. 623; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces. loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate &c. 898; take amiss &c. 900; have enough of &c. (be satiated) 869.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Now this Apis-Epaphos is a calf born of a cow who after this is not permitted to conceive any other offspring; and the Egyptians say that a flash of light comes down from heaven upon this cow, and of this she produces Apis.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth IN GENERAL, we may say that the prohibition to use the vessels, garments, and so forth of certain persons, and the effects supposed to follow an infraction of the rule, are exactly the same whether the persons to whom the things belong are sacred or what we might call unclean and polluted.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

190 As an illustration of the stimulating effect produced by the study of Aristotle’s logic, we quote the following anecdote from the notes to Whately’s edition of Bacon’s Essays :—‘The late Sir Alexander Johnstone, when acting as temporary Governor of Ceylon (soon after its cession), sat once as judge in a trial of a prisoner for a robbery and murder; and the evidence seemed to him so conclusive, that he was about to charge the jury (who were native Cingalese) to find a verdict of guilty.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

Bishop: I am thine evil spirit; thou art mine own; go where thou wilt, thou shalt be mine: yet, now will I do nought to thee, but soon shalt thou see me again.’
— from The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy

Across this eloquent silence that the softest [202] sound would have jarred upon, a cold, unfeeling voice broke harshly.
— from Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

“Where are the eggs?” said the young man suddenly.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

“There’s an uncommonly queer closeness in the air this evening,” said the Colonel as they were sitting out under the verandah a little later.
— from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

The pigeons and the steak have been preserved raw in stoppered bottles since the 21st of last November and the eggs since the 4th of July, 1881.
— from Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians by William K. (William King) David

These he swallows whole, and having exhausted the treasures of one spot he will run up two reeds, resting one foot on each alternately, with surprising rapidity and then fly off with a merry “ping-ping” to renew his search in some other spot, and possibly, if the place be more open, we may see him scratch up the soft ooze with a peculiar backward motion of both feet and then eagerly scan the spot to see if his labours have met their reward.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

Mrs. Bannister was not at home, but Miss Dora was, and that entirely satisfied the visitor.
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

In his excursions with his gay companions among the neighbouring towns, he heard of nothing but the glory of the Crusaders, of the homage paid to the heroes of the Cross at the courts they visited, of the adventures of their life, and the exciting spirit that animated their war.
— from The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron