The size of the state is limited by the requirement that ‘it shall not be larger or smaller than is consistent with unity.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

What disasters are suffered by those who travel by land or sea!
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Odyssey of Joseph, of Fanny, and of their ghostly mentor and bodily guard is, in truth, a little haphazard, and might have been longer or shorter without any discreet man approving it the more or the less therefor.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Admiral Burney lived only six months longer, dying in November.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Vowels may be long or short.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Many other gases have in [Pg 93] like manner been liquefied or solidified, and there is reason to believe that every substance is capable of taking all three forms of solid, liquid, and gas, if only the conditions of temperature and pressure can be sufficiently varied.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, every one who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find this enviable existence, if he escape the positive evils of life, the great sources of physical and mental suffering—such as indigence, disease, and the unkindness, worthlessness, or premature loss of objects of affection.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

They carry you out, just as they carry a sun-struck man to the drug store, and put you on, and help get you to rights, and fix your feet in the stirrups; and all the while you do feel so strange and stuffy and like somebody else—like somebody that has been married on a sudden, or struck by lightning, or something like that, and hasn’t quite fetched around yet, and is sort of numb, and can’t just get his bearings.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In the meantime I will tell Ulysses about your course, and will explain everything to him so as to prevent your suffering from misadventure either by land or sea.'
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I will say honestly that I do not know whether you won by luck or skill, but the most probable hypothesis, to my mind, is that you knew the direction of the ball.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As this cemetery had been laid out some time previous to the construction of the plank road, it was arranged that all funeral processions should be allowed to pass along the latter toll-free.
— from Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger

Relieve yourself by letting off steam, and then think out the thing calmly.
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

But Lady O’Shane,” said Sir Ulick, changing his tone, and with a face of great concern, “I must talk to you about her—I may as well speak now, since it must be said.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much,— Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content!
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The rebel positions on the right flank were marked by lines of skirmishers with their supports and reserves.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Closs warryn all and at thar soft quyet, But sterage or removing, he or sche, Owder best, byrd, fysch, fowle, by land or sey: 30 [Pg 847] And schortlie, euery thing that doith repare In firth or feild, flude, forest, erth or ayr, Or in the scroggis, or the buskis ronk, Lakis, marrasis, or thir pulys donk, Astabillit lyggis still to slepe, and restis; 5 Be the smaill byrdis syttand on thar nestis, The litill mygeis, and the vrusum fleys, Laboryus emmotis, and the bissy beys; Als weill the wild as the taym bestiall, And euery othir thingis gret and small, 10 Owtak the mery nychtgaill, Philomeyn, That on the thorn sat syngand fra the spleyn.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

Jack bid and bid till it reached a whole bushel load of silver, and the Finn was ready to jump out of his skins.
— from Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie

The typical C. luteus , as described above, is the least beautiful of all the Mariposa tulips, being lower of stature and smaller of flower than most of the others; but among its varieties may be found some of the most charming flowers of the genus, the true butterfly-tulips of the early Spanish, often oculated and marked in a wonderful manner.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

I premonish you of that: in the court, boy, lacquey, or sirrah.
— from Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love by Ben Jonson