In the beginning Almighty God created heaven and earth, and all things that belong to them, and last he made two human beings, from whom the races are descended (Adam and Eve), and their children multiplied and spread over all the world.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Education shall be compulsory; the children must attend school, whether their parents like it or not; for they belong to the state more than to their parents.
— from Laws by Plato

On the first day of the siege, while Alexander was leading his men up to the wall in the direction of the gate leading towards Mylasa, 165 the men in the city made a sortie, and a skirmish took place; but Alexander’s men making a rush upon them repulsed them with ease, and shut them up in the city.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The captain, finding the surgeon obstinate, suffered himself to be dressed, and swore he would confine Mackshane as soon as the service should be over.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The degree and direction of every motion is, by the laws of nature, prescribed with such exactness that a living creature may as soon arise from the shock of two bodies as motion in any other degree or direction than what is actually produced by it.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

In the meantime the Syracusan envoys dispatched to Corinth and Lacedaemon tried as they passed along the coast to persuade the Italiots to interfere with the proceedings of the Athenians, which threatened Italy quite as much as Syracuse, and having arrived at Corinth made a speech calling on the Corinthians to assist them on the ground of their common origin.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

"Wilt thou contradict me again?" said the stepmother, "See that thou goest, and do not show thy face again until thou hast the basketful of strawberries!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

In the upper and lower finer-grained strata, there were other concretions of a grey colour, containing calcareous matter, and so fine-grained and compact, as almost to resemble porcelain- rock: I have seen exactly similar concretions in a volcanic tufaceous bed in Chiloe.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

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— from A Maid of Brittany: A Romance by Mabel Winifred Knowles

The manufacturing industries are unimportant, and include morocco leather, carpets, muslins, and silks.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

In China, mind, and such outlandish places, A gentleman who wishes to be wed Looks round about among the pretty faces, Nor for a moment doubts they may be had For asking; and if any of them “nay” says, He has his remedy as soon as said—
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

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— from Little Prudy's Cousin Grace by Sophie May

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— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

too much of that, and the rest was the cheapest margarine and stirring.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 by Various