for we are all born to be fellow-workers, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids; as the rows of the upper and under teeth: for such therefore to be in opposition, is against nature; and what is it to chafe at, and to be averse from, but to be in opposition?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

He also thought fit to observe to her that, once she was on the scene, and had overcome her initial fright, she overacted her parts, and was not sufficiently natural; she forgot to address herself to the audience, and would speak into the wings, and neglect to vary her gestures, intonations, and pauses.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Though I durst not have said such a thing for the world.—Madam, said the old gentleman, I beg your pardon; I hope no offence: but I'd speak it ten times in a breath to have it so, take it how you please, as long as my good master takes it so well.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

[the Polish word here used] in the popular dialect means properly the autumn season, when the migratory birds fly away; to fly to wyraj means to fly to warm countries.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

In the process, you'll get new friends, and be able to follow the development in a dynamic marketplace.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

He counted them—there was a twenty, five tens, four fives, and three ones.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

—’Tis all cut through, an’ please your reverence, said the corporal, with drains and bogs; and besides, there was such a quantity of rain fell during the siege, the whole country was like a puddle,—’twas that, and nothing else, which brought on the flux, and which had like to have killed both his honour and myself; now there was no such thing, after the first ten days, continued the corporal, for a soldier to lie dry in his tent, without cutting a ditch round it, to draw off the water;—nor was that enough, for those who could afford it, as his honour could, without setting fire every night to a pewter dish full of brandy, which took off the damp of the air, and made the inside of the tent as warm as a stove.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Another time he received a tract from the L.J.S. missionary Hartmann, which made a strong impression upon him.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Wilfrid, Mr. Atherton, and the Allens often came in to sit with her, and to take shelter for a time from the fury of the wind.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Mr. Fellowes saw all this from the window of his store, and his blood boiled within him.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

I am too feeble to resist violent resolutions.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

So true is this, that it may be regarded as one of the best practical proofs of their advance, to find the native instruments and music thrown by, and the custom abandoned.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

I was for the hard, bright world, and the future; there in that cedar-scented room, sat the two ladies, forever guarding the faded furniture and the crumbling past.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

So also it is further ordered, with special regard to the tithe of the herd and the flock, "that whatsoever passeth under the rod," i.e. , whatever is counted, as the manner was, by being made to pass into or out of the fold under the herdsman's staff, "the tenth"—that is, every tenth animal as in its turn it comes—"shall be holy to the Lord."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

M.A. F.R.S. CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667 by Samuel Pepys

There were two dozen of us gaunt, hungry men, haggard from lack of sleep and the fearful tax on mind and body that tested human endurance to the limit—two dozen, to whom escape was not impossible now, though every foot of the way was dangerous.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

As soon as those from the Columbia reached the Japanese warship the wounded were taken in charge by the surgeons and placed in the sick bay, as the hospital on a naval vessel is called.
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer