Without a touch of remorse you drive the father from his land, clasping to his bosom his household gods and his half-naked children.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Receiving no reinforcements from behind, seeing everything in front of us already subjugated, we had the spirit, after abandoning our city, after sacrificing our property (instead of deserting the remainder of the league or depriving them of our services by dispersing), to throw ourselves into our ships and meet the danger, without a thought of resenting your neglect to assist us.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Because they desire to seduce you; they do not care for you, they take no real interest in you; their only motive is a secret spite because they see you are better than they; they want to drag you down to their own level, and they only reproach you with submitting to control that they may themselves control you.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Although the very word logic comes from logos ( λογος ), meaning indifferently both word or speech, and thought or reason, yet "words, words, words" denote intellectual barrenness, a sham of thought.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

“My dear Monsieur de Rochefort,” Mazarin replied in a tone of raillery, “you think yourself still a young man; your spirit is that of the phoenix, but your strength fails you.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Mighty art thou, O Ráma, yet Each day with peril is beset.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

"Full of exciting incidents, the young can find in it plenty of remarkable jungle stories, and those of riper years will enjoy the graphic descriptions of travel in the tropics, the folk-lore, and especially the 'nerve' of Stanley Arnot in boldly facing and overcoming any task from 'buying' a little slave to amputating a chief's arm with a penknife and an old razor!
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

All the officers replied, “Yes!
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

This feeling was greatly increased when instead of making my diffidence and awkwardness a theme of ridicule, you evinced a delicate sympathy, and with graceful tact suggested a better courtesy to others.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

On one occasion a spectator who had made up his mind to pry into the mysteries of a school which met in an east end hall, near Queen street, was rummaging for his entrance fee when a buxom young lady came blithely forward and addressed the janitor in a tone of reproach, “You’re not going to charge the reporder, are ye,” and the change collector expressed himself to the effect that he never had any intention of charging such a distinguished personage.
— from Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News" by Toronto News

Now, will you stand, please, so I may administer the oath? Raise your right hand.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

And now, as touching our reasoning yesternight, I promise to do as ye required.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

Looking down from the cliff the men of Chance Along could see the slanted deck, cleared of all superstructures and bulwarks, the stumps of spars with only the foremast intact to the cross-trees and a tangle of rigging, yards, canvas and tackle awash against the face of the cliff.
— from The Harbor Master by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

I selected long-established pure breeds, in which there was not a trace of red, yet in several of the mongrels feathers of this colour appeared; and one magnificent bird, the offspring of a black Spanish cock and white Silk hen, was coloured almost exactly like the wild Gallus bankiva.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

"There's not a trace of resistance yet."
— from Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various