He considered every moment as lost which was not employed in literary pursuits.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

A canal was projected to connect with the great Ohio Canal at Carroll (eight miles above Lancaster), down the valley of the Hock Hocking to Athens (forty-four miles), and thence to the Ohio River by slack water.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Si en el 25 breve respiro que esta señora daba a sus oyentes, Pepe Rey quería acercarse a su prima, pegábasele el Penitenciario como el molusco a la roca, y llevándole aparte con ademán misterioso, le proponía un paseo
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

if it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil,—the first and last I shall ever own in Kentucky!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This caused Enrico much anxiety lest the Romans should call in Ruberto, the King of Naples, who would drive the Germans out of the city, and bring back the Pope.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

What they supposed they did, and what they were understood by the people to do, was merely to declare the law, as it was then and as it had been from time immemorial; the notion always being—and the farther back you go and the more simple the people are, the more they have that notion—that their free laws and customs were something which came from the beginning of the world, which they always held, which were immutable, no more to be changed than the forces of nature; and that no Parliament, under the free Angelo-Saxon government or later under the Norman kings who tried to make them unfree, no king could ever make a law but could only declare what the law was.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Under the free Anglo-Saxon government, no king could ever make a law, but could only declare what the law was."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Desde el término de esta navegación el viaje a los Andes se continúa en mula, ascendiendo la falda hasta el Paso del Arenal, por donde se entra al alto valle central del Ecuador, que nos lleva en dirección a Quito, teniendo a la vista el Chimborazo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

On solemn festivals, Julian, who felt and professed an unfashionable dislike to these frivolous amusements, condescended to appear in the Circus; and after bestowing a careless glance at five or six of the races, he hastily withdrew with the impatience of a philosopher, who considered every moment as lost that was not devoted to the advantage of the public or the improvement of his own mind.
— 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 1955, Charles E. Miller and L. D. Marinelli were measuring human potassium levels with the whole body counter at the Argonne laboratory.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann

Mrs. Cecelia Emily McMillen Adams, late of Hillsboro, Oregon, crossed the Plains in 1852, and kept a painstaking diary, and noted the graves passed, and counted them.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

The question— Cui bono? could be asked as to many of Tennyson’s earlier efforts, such as “Oriana,” “The Lady of Shalott,” “Audley Court,” “Edwin Morris,” “Amphion,” “Lady Clare,” “The Lord of Burleigh,” “The Beggar Maid” and others.
— from Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Eugene Parsons

"The biggest heiress in the county except my Ann 'Liza, and, by gum, I'm glad on't for her and Arthur.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

“The officers of the Ninety-first Regiment who disembarked with the battalion were Captains Gordon and Ward, Lieutenant 221 Cahill, Ensigns MʻInroy and Lavers, and Assistant-Surgeon Stubbs.
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

‘Les prêtres étaient les seuls qui avaient conservé et même augmenté leur influence dans la monarchie goth-espagnole.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle