THE CITY DIVIDED INTO PARTS
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It removes more than half my misfortune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Turnus th’ occasion takes, and cries aloud: “Talk on, ye quaint haranguers of the crowd: Declaim in praise of peace, when danger calls, And the fierce foes in arms approach the walls.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

3 [A2; c1] default in payment.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

13.] Note 4 ( return ) [ Josephus here follows Herodotus, and those that related how Cyrus made war with the Scythians and Massagets, near the Caspian Sea, and perished in it; while Xenophon's account, which appears never to have been seen by Josephus, that Cyrus died in peace in his own country of Persia, is attested to by the writers of the affairs of Alexander the Great, when they agree that he found Cyrus's sepulcher at Pasargadae, near Persepolis.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Some entire cities, taught by custom, delight in parsimony, as I said but just now of the Lacedæmonians.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sus costumbres eran patriarcales; comía poco, bebía menos, y sus únicas calaveradas consistían en alguna merienda en los Alamillos, en días muy sonados, y 5 paseos diarios a un lugar llamado Mundogrande, donde a menudo eran desenterradas del fango de veinte siglos medallas romanas y pedazos de arquitrabe, extraños plintos de desconocida arquitectura y tal cual ánfora o cubicularia de inestimable precio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Secretary of State has already made the limited recommendations permitted by the act for any one year, and it is my hope that the bill introduced in the House of Representatives to carry out these recommendations will be favorably acted on by the Congress during its present session.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

There are unquestionably many kinds of chance-taking which differ from these in economic, and therefore in moral quality; but it has taxed the ingenuity of philosophers to lay down an abstract definition of gambling that would permit ready and certain distinction in practice between gambling and legitimate chance-taking.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

In the great temple of Jupiter Belus, we are told, a single woman used to sleep, whom the god had chosen for himself out of all the women of the land; and it was believed that he came down in person to sleep with her.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

C’est un complot des indigènes pour se soustraire au travail du caoutchouc.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

En cette conjoncture difficile, il pria l'empereur lui-même de prendre en main sa défense.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The ULYSSES BOOKSTORE ON THE WEB [Summary] Founded in 1971 by Catherine Domain in Paris, France, Librairie Ulysse (Ulysses Bookstore) is the oldest bookstore dedicated only to travel, with 20,000 books, maps and magazines, out of print and new, about any country, all packed up in a tiny space, with some treasures impossible to find anywhere else.
— from The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Marie Lebert

This tradition (apart from certain details) is probably historical, but we have no definite confirmatory evidence.
— from The Vikings by A. (Allen) Mawer

When the hour grows ripe, and a certain dotard Is pitched, no parcel that needs invoicing, To the worse side of the Mont St. Gothard, We shall begin by way of rejoicing; None of that shooting the sky (blank cartridge), Nor a civic guard, all plumes and lacquer, Hunting Radetzky's soul like a partridge Over Morello with squib and cracker.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

284 is similar, except that in this case it is a complete dovetail in place of a barefaced one.
— from Woodwork Joints: How They Are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

[Pg 140] From the latitude of the Vindhyan chain down to Cape Comorin, and in the forests of Ceylon, the aboriginal populations of India are still to be met with, living in detached communities, distinct in physical appearance, manners, customs, and religions, not only from the Hindoos, Tamuls, Moslems, and Parsees, but from one another.
— from Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads by Anna Harriette Leonowens