Great care ought also to be used to endeavour to restrain the quarrels and disputes of the nobles by laws, as well as to prevent those who are not already engaged in them from taking a part therein; for to perceive an evil at its very first approach is not the lot of every one, but of the politician.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Stanley has translated harnois blanc literally as “white armor.”
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

In this freezing darkness of mid-winter one would think he might be left alone with the stars.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The door had been left ajar when Margaret entered; it was not easy to say how much of the conversation Lady Caroline had heard.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The mines continued to yield about fifty millions of gold a year; but little attention was paid to agriculture or to any business other than that of "mining," and, as the placer-gold was becoming worked out, the miners were restless and uneasy, and were shifting about from place to place, impelled by rumors put afloat for speculative purposes.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And now by law, as well as reverend age, I may entitle thee my loving father: The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman, Thy son by this hath married.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And the fellow kept blubbering like a woman.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

During the day it’s too hot to breathe, let alone work.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

"It was by the sea, I am sure," said he at last, "for there was a big battle long ago which the English won.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

He then congratulated me on my escape, and said that he hoped I would come to his house and make it my home until I received instructions from my father or uncle, both of whom he said, by last accounts, were well.
— from The White Chief of the Caffres by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Tamino and Papageno have scarcely been left alone, when the three female attendants of the Queen of Night appear and attempt to terrify them with tales of the false nature of the priests, whose recruits, say they, are carried to hell, body and breeches (literally "mit Haut und Haar," i.e. "with skin and hair").
— from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

you might have learned a great deal of curious knowledge regarding giants and bearded ladies, about whom you evidently now know very little.
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

Even Armand Monnier, still out of work, beginning to feel the pinch of want, and fierce for any revolution that might turn topsy-turvy the conditions of labour,—even Armand Monnier was found among groups that were laying immortelles at the foot of the column in the Place Vendome, and heard to say to a fellow malcontent, with eyes uplifted to the statue of the First Napoleon, “Do you not feel at this moment that no Frenchman can be long angry with the Little Corporal? He denied La Liberte, but he gave La Gloire.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Halloran was sitting back with his hat down on his forehead, listening conscientiously, but losing a word now and then, thanks to the roar of the train.
— from The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country by Samuel Merwin

She had been left a widow after five years’ marriage, and for forty subsequent years had reigned despotically in her own name and that of mon fils .
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge