We're bearing fivescore Christian dogs To serve the cruel drivers: Some are fair beauties gently born, And some rough coral-divers.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

806 Quod si tam sacro dignaris nomine saxum, Adde actus tantos monimentaque maxima rerum, Adde truces Lepidi motus Alpinaque bella Armaque Sertori revocato consule victa, 810 Et currus quos egit eques, commercia tuta Gentibus et pavidos
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

We built a small, rude cabin in the side of the crevice and roofed it with canvas, leaving a corner open to serve as a chimney, through which the cattle used to tumble occasionally, at night, and mash our furniture and interrupt our sleep.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

our good friends and next-door neighbours—honest tradesmen, valiant tars, high-spirited half-pay officers, philanthropic Jews, virtuous courtezans, tender-hearted braziers, and sentimental rat- catchers!—(a little bluff or so, but all our very generous, tender- hearted characters are a little rude or misanthropic, and all our misanthropes very tender-hearted.)
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The attempt, therefore, to regulate the contributions of the members of a confederacy by any such rule, cannot fail to be productive of glaring inequality and extreme oppression.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

“You’re much more forgiving than I could ever be,” Anne said, rather crossly.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Edited by Admiral Sir Richard Collinson , K.C.B. pp.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

The real trouble is, that before any substantial relief can be reached, there must be a change in the Constitution of the United States.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

[601] Francis Bacon answered the book in an able pamphlet published the same year (1592), called “Observations upon a Libel published in the Present Year,” in which Lord Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil are very highly lauded.
— from The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Among other valuable acquisitions may be mentioned Garrick's collection of old English plays, Mr. Thomas Tyrwhitt's library, Sir William Musgrave's collection of biography, the general library of the Rev. C. M. Cracherode, the libraries of M. Ginguené, Baron de Moll, Dr. Burney, and Sir R. C. Hoare; and above all, the bequest of Major Arthur Edwards, who left to it his noble library, and £7000 as a fund for the purchase of books.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

{80} Speaking rationally, you perhaps say that he does not make these movements because he sees they would be of no use without food to chew; but this explanation would scarcely apply to the lower sorts of animal, and besides, you do not have to check your jaws by any such rational considerations.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

Or rather, shall they not, from Perm to Tauris' fountains, From the hot Colchian steppes to Finland's icy mountains, From the grey Kreml's half-shatter'd wall, To far Kathay, in dotage buried— A steelly rampart close and serried, Rise—Russia's warriors—one and all?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

A close watch for such operations in this particular instance was being kept by a special revenue cutter outside the Golden Gate.
— from The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco by Francis Worcester Doughty

The beginning of the inscription is marked by a small raised circle, and the information given includes the name of the estate (often imperial) from which the clay comes, the name of the potter and his kiln, and sometimes the date by the consulship, though all these pieces of information do not necessarily occur on the same tile.
— from A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Three weeks after the September morning when an anxious search-party led by Asa Chase, Leon’s father, and by that clever woodsman Toiney Leduc, had started out at dawn to search the dense woods for four missing boys, and found a grotesque-looking quartette with faces piebald from the half-effaced smears of Varney’s Paintpot, breakfasting on blueberries and water by a still ruddy camp-fire,—three weeks after those morning woods had rung with Toiney’s shrill “Hôlà!”
— from A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook

He did not disturb himself at the young man’s entrance, but went on sopping his bread in the chocolate; for he never ate anything for breakfast but a small roll cut into four strips with careful precision.
— from The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honoré de Balzac