Brixton and Surbiton are “new”; they are expanding; they are “nearer to nature,” in the sense that they have eaten up nature mile by mile.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It goes with a great deal that’s bad, but in itself it’s good, and I hope that for women, too, ‘not to work’ will soon become as shocking as ‘not to be married’ was a hundred years ago.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Upon the same principles Philo Biblius speaking of Chrusor, a person of great antiquity, who first built a ship, and navigated the seas; who also first taught husbandry, and hunting, supposes him to have been Vulcan; because it is farther said of him, [499] that he first manufactured iron.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

So we may say that Aphrodite resembles the Moon, and Love the Sun, more than any other deities, yet are not Love and the Sun altogether the same, for just as body and soul are not the same, but something different, so is it with the Sun and Love, the former can be seen, the latter only felt.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Then follow the bonds between brothers and sisters, and next those of first and then of second cousins; and when they can no longer be sheltered under one roof, they go out into other [59] homes, as into colonies.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

0d., which we left with her again, after giving her good counsel, and the boys, and seeing a nurse there of Mrs. Holden’s choosing, I left them, and so walked home greatly troubled to think of my brother’s condition, and the trouble that would arise to me by his death or continuing sick.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In some particulars Plato appears to have copied exactly the customs and procedure of the Areopagus: both assemblies sat at night (Telfy).
— from Laws by Plato

November 6, the polar night began, and shortly afterwards nearly the whole crew were attacked by a deadly scurvy, so violent that
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

I now send Mahomet Bey, free, and all the other prisoners he asked for, as I would have sent the deceased, if he were alive; and be certain, Lady, that it has been a special annoyance not to be able to satisfy you or gratify part of what you ask, because I hold in much esteem the fame of your virtuous nobility.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

I hope for your sake, though, that you will think better about studying, and not throw away your chance to do so now, while it is comparatively easy.
— from Campmates: A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe

It was almost a contradiction that this wild fellow, who was more accustomed to his boots and spurs at night than to pajamas, should have [ 190 ] taken so much pains to make his sleeping-quarters dainty.
— from The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert

In his eyes, everybody ought to be a soldier, and no tale is worth hearing if it be not about a tournament or the taking of a city.
— from Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the Crusades by Emily Sarah Holt

It should perhaps be added, so as not to frighten the Archbishop of Canterbury , that in the purchase were included " Old Westminster Bridge (a view of), with State Barges and Boats ."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 8, 1895 by Various

Presently Dick was back again on the deck of the Nemo , still fresh in body and spirit and none the worse for his rather long stay on the sea bottom.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Submarine Treasure Ship by James R. Driscoll

They expected—at least he did—a salute from the batteries, and sent ashore notice to Sir Alexander Ball, the Governor, of his arrival; but the guns were sulky, and evinced no respect of persons; so that late in the afternoon, about the heel of the evening, the two magnates were obliged to come on shore, and slip into the city unnoticed and unknown.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Mr Clay was not the sort of man who would ever become a sponge, a nuisance to friends.
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson