I also make free all those Jews who have been made captives and slaves in my kingdom.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And not to speak of bays and gulfs, the earth feeds on itself; it has devoured the very high mountain of Cybotus, with the town of Curites; also Sipylus in Magnesia 582 , and formerly, in the same place, a very celebrated city, which was called Tantalis; also the land belonging to the cities Galanis and Gamales in Phœnicia, together with the cities themselves; also Phegium, the most lofty ridge in Æthiopia 583 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I have always used, whether on horseback or on foot, to carry a stick in my hand, and even to affect doing it with an elegant air; many have threatened that this fancy would one day be turned into necessity: if so, I should be the first of my family to have the gout.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Where cases are similar in many circumstances, we are apt to put them on the same footing, without considering, that they differ in the most material circumstances, and that the resemblance is more apparent than real.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

"If my children are silly I must hope to be always sensible of it."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

After dinner half an hour at my viallin, and then all the afternoon sitting at the office late, and so home and to bed. This morning Mr. Cutler came and sat in my closet half an hour with me, his discourse very excellent, being a wise man, and I do perceive by him as well as many others that my diligence is taken notice of in the world, for which I bless God and hope to continue doing so.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And when it attempts to create and set in motion so many complicated springs, it must submit to a very imperfect result, or consume itself in bootless efforts.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In 1869 a French naturalist came over to this country and settled in Medford, Mass.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 29, May 27, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

'Nay, child,' answered she, 'I must tell you all, or I should not act a friendly part.
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

Their profession was contradicted by their practice, “Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and yet come and stand in my house?”
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

"We heard it, captain, and savage it made us, as you may guess.
— from No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Do you know Marjory Fairbanks?" "No," replied Mrs. Chichester, almost sharply: "I mean Margaret.
— from Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners

Which is no strange thing if we consult the Histories of China , and successive Inundations made by Tartarian Nations.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

'I used to live with mother and my married sister; but afterwards mother was cross with me, and my sister was crowded up, too; she has a lot of children: and so I moved.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev