But because this is absurd, they who desire to be rid of eternal punishment ought to abstain from arguing against God, and rather, while yet there is opportunity, obey the divine commands.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

All being ready on either side for the conflict, they gave each other battle by mutual consent, Mathōs beaten and captured.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It used to hang on one side, and his wife’s on the other; but hers has been removed, or else you might see something of what she was.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

She had brown eyes, like George's, a pale complexion (she had been flushed when she approached him, but the color faded away as she recovered her breath), regular features, with a mobility of expression which bore record of every change of feeling.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The prudence of Diocletian discovered that the empire, assailed on every side by the barbarians, required on every side the presence of a great army, and of an emperor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I'll be right out, Emil.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Far be it from us to defend the faults of Pope, especially when we think of Chapman's fine, bold, rough old English;—far be it from, us to hold up his translation as what a translation of Homer might be.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Few excrements in their eyes and nostrils, and often bald by reason of excess of dryness, Montaltus adds, c. 17.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But relaxation of effort as the reflex of physical exhaustion of large sections of the population from privation and the mental and physical strain of the war."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Now thou wishest to lead us from the straight and narrow way of salvation to the broad road of eternal death.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

But, setting aside Charles's personal leaning to the old faith, and forgetting that he was king of the most bigoted race of Europe, his position as Emperor made him almost perforce the Pope's ally.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The effect of sudden darkness was found to induce a transient depression, followed by revival of ex­cit­abil­ity.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE Early Life, 1533-1558 1 CHAPTER II The Change of Religion, 1559 6 CHAPTER III Foreign Relations, 1559-1563 18 CHAPTER IV Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, 1559-1568 38 CHAPTER V Aristocratic Plots, 1568-1572 78 CHAPTER VI Foreign Affairs, 1572-1583 101 CHAPTER VII The Papal Attack, 1570-1583 128 CHAPTER VIII Protectorate of the Netherlands, 1584-1586 156 CHAPTER IX Execution of the Queen of Scots: 1584-1587 174 CHAPTER X War with Spain, 1587-1603 188 CHAPTER XI Domestic Affairs, 1588-1601 211 CHAPTER XII Last Years and Death, 1601-1603 230 APPENDIX A.— Sessions of Parliament in the Reign of Elizabeth 243 B.— Principal Howards Contemporaries of Elizabeth 244 C.— Principal Boleyn Relations of Elizabeth 245 {1} CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE: 1533-1558 I HAVE to deal, under strict limitations of space, with a long life, almost the whole of its adult period passed in the exercise of sovereignty—a life which is in effect the history of England during forty-five years, abounding at the same time in personal interest, and the subject, both in its public and private aspects, of fierce and probably interminable controversies.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

He grew more sullen, somber, brooding, redder of eye and face, more crouching and restless.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour Than for the love of reckless Silvia.
— from Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

It would seem to be generally believed, that by reason of experiments made within its walls upon the lower animals, discoveries of the utmost value to the human race are bing added to the resources of medical science.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

Yet two years later these same American troops on the northern frontier, when trained and commanded by Brown, Scott, and Ripley, proved able to do what the finest troops of Napoleon were unable to do, that is, meet the British regulars on equal terms in the open; and the Tennessee backwoodsmen and Louisiana volunteers, when mastered and controlled by the iron will and warlike genius of Andrew Jackson, performed at New Orleans a really great feat.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

He talked of the boy, he talked of his wife, he laid plans, he tore them down, he built them up again, he asked advice, he did not wait to hear it, but rambled on, excited, eager.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker