For we have shown that they think virtue capable of being taught and cultivated both in private and public; and, notwithstanding, they have their sons taught lesser matters, ignorance of which does not involve the punishment of death: but greater things, of which the ignorance may cause death and exile to those who have no training or knowledge of them—aye, and confiscation as well as death, and, in a word, may be the ruin of families—those things, I say, they are supposed not to teach them,—not to take the utmost care that they should learn.
— from Protagoras by Plato

This circumstance was nightly quoted, though none of the present inmates, that I could discover, appeared ever to have met with the poem in question.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

They would usually procure a wagon or family carriage, load it with bacon, corn-meal, turkeys, chickens, ducks, and every thing that could be used as food or forage, and would then regain the main road, usually in advance of their train.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And as they looked to behold, they cast their eyes toward heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were, in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them, and the multitude did see and hear and bear record; and they know that their record is true, for they all of them did see and hear, every man for himself; and they were in number about two thousand and five hundred souls; and they did consist of men, women, and children.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

If I find it my absolute duty to suppress them, they shall trouble no one but myself; and if I can really feel myself justified in indulging this attachment, I can dare anything, even the anger and grief of my best friend, for its object—surely, I shall soon know.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Tamed wolves and jackals, when caressed by their masters, jump about for joy, wag their tails, lower their ears, lick their master's hands, crouch down, and even throw themselves on the ground belly upwards.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Meanwhile, Fra Rinaldo's comrade, who had by this taught the serving-wench not one, but maybe more than four paternosters, and had given her a little purse of white thread, which he had from a nun, and made her his devotee, hearing the cuckold call at his wife's chamber-door, had softly betaken himself to a place whence he could, himself unseen, both see and hear what should betide and presently, seeing that all had passed off well, came down and entering the chamber, said, 'Fra Rinaldo, I have despatched all four of the orisons which you bade me say.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Knights Commanders of the military division use the laurel wreath as do Knights Grand Cross, but no members of any class of the civil division are entitled to display it.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This conversation relieved my mind a little, and I left those gentlemen considerably more at ease in myself than when I came to them; and I was very grateful to Captain Doran, and even to my old master, for the character they had given me; a character which I afterwards found of infinite service to me.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

At such moments I am pagan in my sentiments, and would, if it were possible, call down all evil things upon my enemy.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

Agricultural strategy in 1914 might well have been exonerated if it had employed Negro chief demonstrators and engaged them in interstate contest for quantity production.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

In short, we were here as comfortably and as well quartered as we could desire, and every thing tended to make us perfectly satisfied with our lot.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

On Corpus Christi daie at euensong time, the diuell (as was thought) appeared in a towne of Essex called Danburie, entring into the church in likenesse of a greie frier, behauing himselfe verie outragiouslie, plaieng his parts like a diuell indéed, so that the parishioners were put in a maruellous great fright.
— from Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

Mr. Cheetham came directly, and examined the place carefully.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

And some clergymen, although supported by some church, cared little for their clerical duties and evaded them by living in some other parish.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

I wish I could take them all up to Castle Dare and entertain them as a prince could entertain people—" "I want to talk to you about that, Macleod," said his companion.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels