Then again I may kindly command myself not to hear this ticking, but to hear one of the other three, and I do so, though I fail to hear two clocks together at just the same instant.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I calmed me, not to swell their woe.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

I. If two contrary actions be started in the same subject, a change must necessarily take place, either in both, or in one of the two, and continue until they cease to be contrary. II.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

In the clear, moonlit night, the small fires burnt with a red, subdued glow; there was always one of them between each two sleepers, consisting of [ 385 ] three burning sticks, gradually pushed in as they were consumed.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis —Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds.
— 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.

It cost me near three months more to clear the inside, and work it out so as to make an exact boat of it; this I did, indeed, without fire, by mere mallet and chisel, and by the dint of hard labour, till I had brought it to be a very handsome periagua, and big enough to have carried six-and-twenty men, and consequently big enough to have carried me and all my cargo.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Praetorian guards felt how strongly their own interest and safety were connected with his cause; and a third army was soon collected, more numerous than those which had been lost in the battles of Turin and Verona.
— 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

However, the commander may not take up the matter of denying Y island, specifically, to enemy use until he studies the detailed operations required for the accomplishment of the action involved in his first stage.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

A long, deserted-looking jetty runs far out into the shallow sea, a few Chinese junks lie at anchor, in the distance a few Malay fishermen are watching their nets, but not a breath stirs, the sea is without a ripple, the gray clouds move not, the yellow plumes of the palms are motionless; the sea, the sky, the town, look all alike asleep in a still, moist, balmy heat.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

It is found from the Atlantic to the Pacific in its two races, and breeds from Georgia to Nova Scotia on our eastern seaboard, and from Vera Cruz, Mexico, northward through Arizona, Utah and California.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

6.) relates, that Agrippa, on his coming again to his government, caused many Nazarites to be shaved.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 2 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

In the earlier part of his reign the double blue circle and the Kang-he nien-hao are frequent, but collectors must note that many specimens of this period have no date mark at all.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker

He supposed it was the etiquette for Cabinet Ministers never to admit there was anything censurable in the conduct of each other, for though he was certain many things were done of which John Russell could not approve, and for which he was unable to make any defence, he never would admit that what had been done had been wrong; that the consequence of this had been to impair considerably the relations of confidence and openness which ought to exist between the Queen and her Prime Minister, and to place her in an unsatisfactory position vis-à-vis of him.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

Three cheers for Mr. Peleg Growdy!" exclaimed one of those who felt relieved to think that his coming meant no trouble after all.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

Let me entreat you by our former joys, and by our now common misfortunes, not to abet my destruction.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

Cesario , be thy self, be mine Cesario : Make not thy self uncapable of that portion I have full purpose to confer upon thee, By falling into madness: bear thy wrongs With noble patience, the afflicted's friend Which ever in all actions crowns the end.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

Among private men themselves, do not the stronger and more bold trample on the weaker?” “To the end, therefore, that this may not happen to me,” said Aristippus, “I confine myself not to any republic, but am sometimes here, sometimes there, and think it best to be a stranger wherever I am.”
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon