Thus they were led to criticize custom adversely and to look for some other source of authority in life and belief.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

As soon as they were apprehensive of a just retaliation, they renounced their feeble and disorderly independence: the advantages of real government, union, secrecy, and vigor, were unanimously confessed; and Autharis, the son of Clepho, had already attained the strength and reputation of a warrior.
— 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

Clad in a dust cloak and a travelling cap, he was seated on the window-sill, and did not rise even when, rushing towards him with exclamations of astonishment, and fussing to and fro like a man who believes himself to be overjoyed, as well as desires other people to believe it, Arkady cried: "What a surprise!
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

After an honorable defence, the city and island of Cyzicus yielded to his power; the renowned legions of the Jovians and Herculians embraced the cause of the usurper, whom they were ordered to crush; and, as the veterans were continually augmented with new levies, he soon appeared at the head of an army, whose valor, as well as numbers, were not unequal to the greatness of the contest.
— 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

If it is a crime to have won your affection, I can assure you that I did not think I was committing a criminal action, and therefore you cannot conscientiously punish me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I might indeed, (had I wisely done) observed that precept of the poet, ——— nonumque prematur in annum , and have taken more care: or, as Alexander the physician would have done by lapis lazuli, fifty times washed before it be used, I should have revised, corrected and amended this tract; but I had not (as I said) that happy leisure, no amanuenses or assistants.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And if, dropping the notion of Nature, one were merely to put it that things are constituted so, then how ridiculous at the same time to say that the parts of the Universe are constituted so as to change, and also to wonder and fret at change or dissolution, as if it were something against the course of Nature; especially as everything is dissolved into the elements out of which it arose.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

From these secure stations, they were encouraged to make frequent sallies on the Barbarians, who infested the adjacent country; and, as they were seldom allowed to engage, without some decisive superiority, either of ground or of numbers, their enterprises were, for the most part, successful; and they were soon convinced, by their own experience, of the possibility of vanquishing their invincible enemies.
— 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

A regular scale of fines, from ten to two hundred pounds of silver, was curiously ascertained, according to the distinction of rank and fortune, to punish the crime of assisting at a schismatic conventicle; and if the fine had been levied five times, without subduing the obstinacy of the offender, his future punishment was referred to the discretion of the Imperial court.
— 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

while, as long as Chwyldro, n. a turn; a vortex Chwyldroi, v. to whirl round Chwylfa, n. an orbit, a course Chwyliad, n. a rotation Chywlo, v. to turn, to revolve Chwyn, n. a stir, weeds Chwynan, n. a fly wheel Chwyniad, n. a weeding Chwyno, v. to stir about Chwynog, a. full of weeds Chwynogl, n. a hoe Chwynogli, v. to grub up weeds Chwyrn, n. a whirl; a snarl: a. rapid; active Chwyrnad, n. whirling; snoring Chwyrndra, n. rapidness Chwyrnell, n. a whirligig Chwrnelliad, n. a whirling Chwyrnellu, v. to whirl, to whiz Chwyrnfor, n. a strong eddy Chwyrniad, n. a snarler Chwyrnog, a. whirling; snarling Chwyrnogl, n. a rattle Chwyrnogli, v. to rattle, to whiz Chwyrnogliad, n. a rattling Chwyrnolad, v. to snort: n. a snorting Chwyrnes, n. a hornet Chwyrnu, v. to hum; to whiz; to snort; to snarl; to snore Chwys, n. perspiration, sweat Chwysbair, a sudorific Chwysdwll, n. sweat pore Chwysfa, n. a sudatory Chwysiad, n. a sweating Chwysig, a. apt to sweat Chwysigen, n. a bladder Chwysigeniad, n. a blistering Chwysigenog, a. blistered Chwysigenu, v. to blister Cbwysigl, n. a blister Chwysiglen, n. a blister Chwyslyd, a. apt to perspire Chwysog, a. fall of sweat Chwysoglen, n. the sharp dock Chwysol, a. sweating Chwysu, v. to sweat, to perspire Chwyth, n. a blast; breath Chwythad, n. a blasting, a breathing Chwythaint, n. respiration Chwythbren, n. a blowpipe Chwythedd, n. act of blowing Chwythell, n. a whistle Chwythelliad, n. a whistling Chwythgorn, n. a cornet Chwythiad, n. a blowing Chwythiedydd, n. a blower Chwythig, a. windy; inflated Chwythigell, n. what is inflated Chwythigen, n. a bettle Chwythlyd, a. blowing, pufflng Chwythol, a. blowing; breathing Chwythu, v. to blow, to blast Chwythyn, n. a puff, a blast Da, n. what is had; goods, chattels, stock, cattle: a. good, well:
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

New departures in both tragedy and comedy, and a theatrically important tertium quid were all instituted.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

That morning the German attack fell first on Kemmel Hill, which they turned from the north, and two hours later, the bombardment continuing all along the line, they developed a strong attack against Dranoutre in the south in order to take Locre and turn the French right.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

Now while Sarpedon reigned over them, they were called by the name which they had when they came thither, and by which the Lykians are even now called by the neighbouring tribes, namely Termilai; but when from Athens Lycos the son of Pandion came to the land of the Termilai and to Sarpedon, he too having been driven out by his brother namely Aigeus, then by the name taken from Lycos they were called after a time Lykians.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The commissionaire sat stolid, but alert on his chair, and, at the sight of his master, rose and saluted.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

The director's baton may send it away for a moment, but down it comes again, and the dark motif with it.
— from Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba by Mabel Wagnalls

At this point they cease altogether, and the central point is neuter .
— from A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

this funny little Sam Thought the world was bread and cheese, and all the trees were jam; He stood his baby on its head, and played at shuttlecock, And then he rocked himself to sleep with cakes of almond-rock.
— from The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair (Shafto Justin Adair) Fitz-Gerald

The outer courts are accessible to carriages, which make the square-mile circuit of the spacious quadrangles.
— from Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings

After the lapse of another half century, and at the very period when the persecution against witches waxed hotter, [xxi] and the public prejudice had become only more inveterate, from the ingredient of fanaticism having been largely thrown
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

"I am a sinner, father; give me counsel and absolution, that I may have hope."
— from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper