as that such a man should be maintained in the Prytaneum, and this much more than if one of you had been victorious at the Olympic games in a horserace, or in the two or four horsed chariot race: for such a one makes you appear to be happy, but I, to be so; and he does not need support, but I do.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Thus disguised she is called the Dodola, and goes through the village with a troop of girls.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Upon this letter of Joab's, the king accepted of his good-will and fidelity, and took with him his army, and came to the destruction of Rabbah; and when he had taken it by force, he gave it to his soldiers to plunder it; but he himself took the king of the Ammonites' crown, whose weight was a talent of gold; 13 and it had in its middle a precious stone called a sardonyx; which crown David ever after wore on his own head.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Now Titus his chamber adjoined that of Gisippus and one might go from the one room into the other; wherefore Gisippus, being in his chamber and having put out all the lights, betook himself stealthily to his friend and bade him go couch with his mistress.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I cannot discern either the justice or magnanimity of Louis XIV., who, in 1687, sent his ambassador, the marquis de Lavardin, to Rome, with an armed force of a thousand officers, guards, and domestics, to maintain this iniquitous claim, and insult Pope Innocent XI.
— 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

He was the first Roman author who wrote a treatise on Geography.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

J. J. getting him off the grand jury list and the other give him a leg over the stile.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

2 The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave; and it was agreed, that in proportion to her former greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable.
— 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

The king and his worthless adherents are got at their old game of dividing the Continent, and there are not wanting among us, Printers, who will be busy in spreading specious falsehoods.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

There is not so great a disproportion between our justice and that of God, as between unity and infinity.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Two young Gentlemen, the one named Melisso, borne in the City of Laiazzo: and the other Giosefo of Antioch, travailed together unto Salomon, the famous King of Great Britaine.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

Old Queenie came up the lane and turned in at the open gateway beyond the garden.
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

There is therefore, as I say, much diligence required of him that will keep these two in their places assigned them of God.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

And then, on going down the broad, shallow staircase, and so through the large, oval hall into the dining-room, Sylvia Bailey saw that the man of whom she had been thinking was there, sitting very near to where she herself was now told that she was to sit.
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes

He has himself described it in one of his minor writings, in setting down what he remembered as the only good that ever came of a beadle.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

As we turned into the farm where my father was concealed, I saw men lurking here and there, on guard, about the grounds.
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon

than are the other groups.
— from A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel

The consequence is, that the apprentices too often get indifferent to law, and have been known to say that they cared not about going to prison, and that they would do just as they did before as soon as they were released.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

And of all those other German states, many of which were acquired by driving back the Slavs ( e.g. modern Saxony, Prussia), we need not speak here.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

In most cases, artesian wells have been bored for purely economical or industrial purposes, such as to obtain good water for domestic use or for driving light machinery, to reach saline or other mineral springs, and recently, in America, to open fountains of petroleum or rock oil.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh