A cockade in your cap and a noble title, but nothing to eat.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Nun's Rule (Ancren Riwle), modern version by J. Morton, in King's Classics; Aucassin and Nicolete, translated by A. Lang (Crowell & Co.); Tristan and Iseult, in Arthurian Romances; Evans's The High History of the Holy Grail, in Temple Classics; The Pearl, various modern versions in prose and verse; one of the best is Jewett's metrical version (Crowell & Co.); The Song of Roland, in King's Classics, and in Riverside Literature Series; Evans's translation of Geoffrey's History, in Temple Classics; Guest's The Mabinogion, in Everyman's Library, or S. Lanier's Boy's Mabinogion (i.e. Welsh fairy tales and romances); Selected Ballads, in Athenæum Press Series, and in Pocket Classics; Gayley and Flaherty's Poetry of the People; Bates's A Ballad Book.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

" Are not these, then, produced from each other, since they are contraries; and are not the modes by which they are produced two-fold intervening between these two?" "How should it be otherwise?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

For as it is not yet six thousand years since the first man, who is called Adam, are not those to be ridiculed rather than refuted who try to persuade us of anything regarding a space of time so different from, and contrary to, the [Pg 267] ascertained truth?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

On his right wing he stationed his lancers under the command of Ardys, a man of proved ability in the field; next to them the Cretan allies, and next the Gallic Rhigosages.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

When the ground was not yet quite covered, and again near the end of winter, when the snow was melted on my south hillside and about my wood-pile, the partridges came out of the woods morning and evening to feed there.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Unless a change takes place in the present fashion, none except cooks will know anything about carving, which was once considered an art necessary to every gentleman.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Akademus, who had by some means discovered that she was concealed at Aphidnae, now told them where she was; for which cause he was honoured by the sons of Tyndareus during his life, and also the Lacedaemonians, though they often invaded the country and ravaged it unsparingly, yet never touched the place called the Akademeia, for Akademus's sake.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

For the perilous deeds which chiefs attempt are not to be done by the ventures of common men.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The Goths, in their new settlement of the Ukraine, soon became masters of the northern coast of the Euxine: to the south of that inland sea were situated the soft and wealthy provinces of Asia Minor, which possessed all that could attract, and nothing that could resist, a barbarian conqueror.
— 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

The big mining man made no comment and added nothing to what she said.
— from The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North by William MacLeod Raine

I spoke of Herman Melville, and one or two others; but he seems to have some acquaintance with the literature of the day, and did not grasp very cordially at any name that I could think of; nor, indeed, could I recommend any one with full confidence.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Porter executed his duties faithfully, and reported to me that Montgomery was decidedly a fast town; that the Exchange Hotel, where Maroney boarded, was kept by Mr. Floyd, former proprietor of the Briggs House, Chicago, and, although not the leading house of the town, was very much liked, as it was well conducted.
— from The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

He could always afford not to bend the knee to any employer or client.
— from Teresa of Watling Street: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

16 In the course of the Notes, the editor has indicated such corrections as are necessary to prevent the student from thinking that in reading Defoe he is drinking from a "well of English undefiled."
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

The Reds were busy defending Plesetskaya from a converging attack and not till snow clouds gathered in the northern skies were they to gather up a heavy force to attack Toulgas.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

Mr. Mowbray had long contemplated rising in favor of his country again, and no time seemed to him so proper as the present, when all others were becoming disheartened.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 1, January 1847 by Various

The body is to be contemned, and all natural ties; emotion is to be uprooted from the heart so that the proper state of entire calm and undisturbedness may be maintained.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

Not marble carved with popular inscriptions Whereby the spirit and the life return After their death unto our upright leaders, Nor Hannibal's swift flight, nor threatenings stern Thrown back on him, nor flames from impious Carthage, Ever more clearly pointed out the praise Of him who, after Africa was conquered, Acquired a name, than did the Calabrian lays.
— from Memorial Day, and Other Verse (Original and Translated) by Helen Leah Reed