If, when the subject came into debate, Augustus should be sincere in the declaration to abide by the resolution of the council, it is beyond all doubt, that the restoration of a republican government would have been voted by a great majority of the assembly.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Why an unequal measure for child and man? Taken absolutely, instead of comparatively, immaturity designates a positive force or ability,—the pouter to grow.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

There he lay, and his white beard covered him like a garment,” and she pointed to a spot near where I was sitting; “but surely he hath long since crumbled into dust, and the wind hath borne his ashes hence.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

And seeing that these things were some of them small, some large, and some of a middle size, great was the judgment and the talent of Buschetto in accommodating them and in making the distribution of all this building, which is very well arranged both within and without; and besides other work, he contrived the frontal slope of the façade very ingeniously with a great number of columns, adorning it besides with columns carved in diverse and varied ways, and with ancient statues, even as he also made the principal doors in the same façade, between which—that is, beside that of the Carroccio—there was afterwards given an honourable burial-place to Buschetto himself, with three epitaphs, whereof this is one, in Latin verses in no way dissimilar to others of those times: QUOD VIX MILLE BOUM POSSENT JUGA JUNCTA MOVERE, ET QUOD VIX POTUIT PER MARE FERRE RATIS, BUSCHETTI NISU, QUOD ERAT MIRABILE VISU, DENA PUELLARUM TURBA LEVAVIT ONUS.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Cicero is dead, And by that order of proscription.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There was also a geographic division into “Long towns,” “Potato-eating towns,” and “Six towns,” the last named differing considerably in dialect and custom from the others.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

'Certainly I do, and my Spartan friend will agree with me.'
— from Laws by Plato

What can I do?” asked Lucy, forgetting Franz.
— from Captain Lucy in the Home Sector by Aline Havard

“Of course I do, and even worse.
— from Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade

[187-A] I do not however agree with Bergson, who does not believe poetry can be composed in dreams at all.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

And these parallel passages are so much the more to the point, that by the article the cloud is designated as being already known; compare Hofmann , Schriftbeweis ii. 1, S. 36.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Castaing is described as a small dark mulatto, and La Chaise as a Quarteron, of a tall fine figure.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Page 13 A Gentleman who is possessed of Sir Meredyth ab Rhys's, "Cywydd i ddiolch am Rwyd bysgota; i lfan ab Tudor;" "An Ode to thank Evan ab Tudor, for a Fishing Net;" obligingly favored me with the following copy of the above Lines.
— from An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by John Williams

PINEAPPLE SALAD—III Mix shredded pineapple with peeled and quartered tomatoes, figs soaked in sherry and cut into dice, and broken English walnut meats.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

What could I do, at the mercy of a band of ruthless savages?
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

It is similar to enstatite, except that the color is darker, and the streak gray or brownish-gray in color.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis