If you do not, you shall be a rebel to God,” etc.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"He does not fly who retires," returned Don Quixote; "for I would have thee know, Sancho, that the valour which is not based upon a foundation of prudence is called rashness, and the exploits of the rash man are to be attributed rather to good fortune than to courage; and so I own that I retired, but not that I fled; and therein I have followed the example of many valiant men who have reserved themselves for better times; the histories are full of instances of this, but as it would not be any good to thee or pleasure to me, I will not recount them to thee now."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cyrus Harding, the reporter, and Herbert, after spending an hour on the plateau of Prospect Heights, again descended to the beach, and returned to Granite House.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Do not forget that the blossoms are really the genitals of the plants.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The Christians, (it might specially be alleged,) renouncing the gods and the institutions of Rome, had constituted a distinct republic, which might yet be suppressed before it had acquired any military force; but which was already governed by its own laws and magistrates, was possessed of a public treasure, and was intimately connected in all its parts by the frequent assemblies of the bishops, to whose decrees their numerous and opulent congregations yielded an implicit obedience.
— 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

She loved him as a kind elder brother; a relation to guide, protect, and instruct her, without the too frequent tyranny of parental authority.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole’s arrival, thought in another way.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For they suppose that the blessedness of the soul then only is complete, when it is quite denuded of the body, and returns to God a pure and simple, and, as it were, naked soul.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Jeanie, with all her simplicity of character, had some of the caution of her country, and, according to Scottish universal custom, she answered the question by another, requesting the girl would tell her why she asked these questions?
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

He built there a mansion for six knights-hermits, to keep him company in this solitude, whither he retired in 1434, being a widower of Mary of Burgundy, and resigned the government of his duchy, &c. to his son.—
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 07 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

and the word Gabella was explained by a reference to Gran Duca !
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

After investigating the ground thoroughly he returned and led up three platoons of a company of this battalion and relieved the garrison.
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

It was called berroquena ,—a stone bearing a resemblance to granite, though not so hard.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

Many of our Scottish Gipsies have, indeed, been as ready to give a purse as take one; and it cannot be said that they have lacked in the display of a certain degree of honour peculiar to themselves, as the following well-authenticated fact will illustrate.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

But, as regards the germ-cell while still forming in the ovary or testicle, there is for this supposition no basis in fact.
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

The only remedy was to build barracks and reduce the garrison, both of which were done with all the speed possible.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

[Pg 589] Some who use two furnaces partly melt the mixture in the first, and not only re-melt it in the second, but also replace the glass articles there.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola