Note 545 ( return ) [ Caesar by birth, not by adoption, as the preceding emperors had been, and as Nero would be, if he succeeded.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The infernal storm is raging ceaselessly, Sweeping the shades along with it, and them It smites and whirls, nor lets them ever be. Arrived at the precipitous extreme, [253]
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But the release of the prisoners from chains, and their translation from the shadows to the images and to the light, and the ascent from the underground den to the sun, while in his presence they are vainly trying to look on animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are able to perceive even with their weak eyes the images in the water (which are divine), and are the shadows of true existence (not shadows of images cast by a light of fire, which compared with the sun is only an image)—this power of elevating the highest principle in the soul to the contemplation of that which is best in existence, with which we may compare the raising of that faculty which is the very light of the body to the sight of that which is brightest in the material and visible world—this power is given, as I was saying, by all that study and pursuit of the arts which has been described.
— from The Republic by Plato

The heart varies in some measure, not only as to size and weight, but also as to position, even in healthy individuals of the same age and sex.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Every move had been telegraphed and bulletined, and as the procession entered Virginia and filed down C street at half past eight in the evening the town was abroad in the thoroughfares, torches were glaring, flags flying, bands playing, cheer on cheer cleaving the air, and the city ready to surrender at discretion.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But this is past, in a better age, and the prison exists no longer.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Without depending on prayers or miracles, he boldly armed against the public enemy, and his pastoral letters admonished the Italians of their danger and their duty.
— 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

"If he's crippled I'll get him that much easier," said Briskow, and at the purposeful expression upon his weather-beaten face Mrs. Ring uttered a faint bleat of terror.
— from Flowing Gold by Rex Beach

He found dialects, not merely spoken, but already adapted to poetical expression, in more than one district of Italy.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

Their tears flowed fast—their caresses were added to those of Brian; and as they penitently embraced her, they retracted their awful oath, and promised never again to think of violence, revenge, or bloodshed.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

But, after all, 'tis plain enough to me, A man unstudious, must unhappy be; Who deems a dull, inactive life the best, A life of laziness, a life of rest; A willing slave to sloth—and well I know, He suffers much who nothing has to do.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various

Becket assembled all the poor, even the beggars, who could be found, to fill his vacant board.
— from Life of Thomas à Becket by Henry Hart Milman

1 per cent per month, or 12 per cent for the civil common year—which, according to the value of money in antiquity, was probably at that time nearly the same as, according to its modern value, a rate of 5 or 6 per cent—must have been already about this period established as the maximum of appropriate interest.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

All things considered, I do not think you need be anxious about the party, even if you find a search impracticable, having regard to your future movements, and you will remember that the search will be more easily prosecuted as the season advances.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

And, finally, comes Right Rapture, which seems to be aimed against the pointless ecstasies of the devout, such witless gloryings, for instance, as those that went to the jingle of the Alexandrian sistrum.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells