[33] est inimicus, aliter, si competitor (cum altero certamen honoris et dignitatis est, cum altero capitis et famae), sic cum Celtiberis, cum Cimbris bellum ut cum inimicis gerebatur, uter esset, non uter imperaret, cum Latinis, Sabinis, Samnitibus, Poenis, Pyrrho de imperio dimicabatur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Observe these brief rules, and milk your cows at certain hours every day —milk very quickly , without stopping, and very clean , not leaving a drop—and you never will have a poor cow on your farm, and at least twenty-five per cent.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

As day dawned Peter looked out for the boat, earnestly hoping that the captain and crew had escaped destruction.
— from The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

and with a groan he threw himself again upon the couch, and, closing his eyes, dropped almost instantly into a heavy slumber, from which the judge did not rouse him until after dinner, when he ordered some refreshments sent to his room, and himself awoke the young man, whose face looked pinched, and white, and haggard, and who could only swallow a cup of coffee and a part of a biscuit.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

And now the noble animal, that was to be thus wantonly tormented, was fastened to the ring by a Page 346 strongly-twisted cord, which, though it confined and cramped his exertions, did not entirely restrain them.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

"I thought that perhaps these bills you hold for me—that they would give you some power over him," and she colored and cast her eyes down.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

John Wheelock; Thornton, Wentworth, and Reed Halls, Shattuck Observatory, and the Chandler Building, erected or completed during the administration of President Lord; Bissell, Culver, and Conant Halls, erected during the administration of President Smith.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

"First: He ought to consecrate a certain hour every day to the study of a determined subject, as St. Bernard counselled his monks in his letter to the Brothers of the Mont Dieu.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

and with a groan he threw himself again upon the couch, and, closing his eyes, dropped almost instantly into a heavy slumber, from which the judge did not rouse him until after dinner, when he ordered some refreshments sent to his room, and himself awoke the young man, who could only swallow a cup of coffee and a part of a biscuit.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

In the teaching of pronunciation a slight difference in the treatment of children of twelve years and of college students might be granted: young children are generally able to learn the sounds of a foreign language by imitation; students of college age can hardly ever do this well, and careful phonetic instruction is absolutely necessary with them.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper