Such was his charge: and he set the camels opposite the horsemen for this reason,—because the horse has a fear of the camel and cannot endure either to see his form or to scent his smell: for this reason then the trick had been devised, in order that the cavalry of Croesus might be useless, that very force wherewith the Lydian king was expecting most to shine.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Even in science Boston could claim a certain eminence, especially in medicine, but Mr. Adams cared very little for science.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[149] dedeceat a c, Edd.; deceat H L b; non deceat B. in illis a Bt. 1 , Ed.; in illos B H b c; illos L, Bt. 2 [150] et ab aliis a, Bt., Ed.; aliis B H b; et cum aliis c; et ex aliis Unger, Müller.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Well—I should not have called Arabella coarse exactly, except in speech, though she may be getting so by this time under the duties of the public house.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Everything there converges and confronts everything else.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Entre estos últimos está el lobo de mar de las costas australes, conocido en el comercio con el nombre de «lobo de dos pelos» y que en los mercados europeos obtiene precios que oscilan entre cuatro y seis libras esterlinas cada uno.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In the tenth century, the chair of Mahomet was disputed by three caliphs or commanders of the faithful, who reigned at Bagdad, Cairoan, and Cordova, excommunicating each other, and agreed only in a principle of discord, that a sectary is more odious and criminal than an unbeliever.
— 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

In fact, they produced nothing but cattle and considered everything else unimportant.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Ingraham, Charles A., “Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth: First Hero of the Civil War,” 349 -74. letters, 89 -92. Inman, John, Janesville pioneer, 273 .
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

Even the natural punishment of the violation of natural laws contains a certain ethical element.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

It's the maddest dream that I, with my bones and my money and my bringing up, all my crippling ailments, could ever, ever climb those mountains and cliffs and wade through those bogs.
— from August First by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

It is the text which I always use myself in my general reading of the New Testament, and I deliberately regard it as one of the two best texts of the New Testament at present extant; the other being the cheap and convenient edition of Professor Nestle, bearing the title “Novum Testamentum Græce, cum apparatu critico ex editionibus et libris manu scriptis collecto.
— from Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture by C. J. (Charles John) Ellicott

[497] The following words of Vespasiano are untranslatable: ‘A vederlo in tavola cosi antico come era, era una gentilezza.’
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt