Next, let the wardens of the agora be elected in like manner, out of the first and second class, five in number: ten are to be first elected, and out of the ten five are to be chosen by lot, as in the election of the wardens of the city:—these when they have undergone a scrutiny are to be declared magistrates.
— from Laws by Plato

This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

For how is such a one judged to be best either in learning, sciences, or arts?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He remembered that the last time he had been engaged in looking around him for the unknown something, he was standing before a cutler’s shop, in the window of which were exposed certain goods for sale.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The general staff in times of peace should be employed in labors preparatory for all possible contingencies of war.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

But ere it long had lain to cool, One slily peep’d out of the pool, And finding it a king in jest, He boldly summon’d all the rest.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Onyegin was interesting because he was not in love at all, and Tatyana was fascinating because she was so much in love; but if they had been equally in love with each other and had been happy, they would perhaps have seemed dull.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But especially it leads us to regard this institution as peculiarly the expression of the inner ethical life of a people in a sense seldom true elsewhere.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

But every initial letter may be repeated as the final, producing 26 other ways.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

This American government,—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I said that I believed I should be better employed in looking after our interests up the Yukon than in going home in ease and luxury.
— from A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper

They then in lines 13-15 introduce Innini whom they represent in discourse before Enlil in lines 16-47.
— from Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon

Wheat and copper have been exported in large quantities.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL PLACES SHOULD BE EMPLOYED IN LAYING UP MATERIALS FOR THE EXERCISE OF HIS ART.
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

Beyond these there was another class of men who had but little sympathy with Greece or Rome, and still less with mediæval monasticism or feudalism, but who in their own strong sense were inclined to take a more reasonable view of the matter, and these men have for years been erecting in London, Manchester, Leeds, and in other cities of England a series of warehouses and other buildings designed wholly with reference to their uses, and ornamented only in their construction, and which consequently are—as far as their utilitarian purposes will allow—as satisfactory as anything of former days.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

He was an ultra-conservative, and desired to bring the new thought of the day into disrepute by exhibiting its ludicrous side.
— from Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll