All these ne be not in comparison to the great Chan, neither of might, ne of noblesse, ne of royalty, ne of riches; for in all these he passeth all earthly princes.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Protected by ramparts, each possessed a town-hall ( hôtel de ville ), a seal, a treasury, and a watch-tower, and it could arm a certain number of men, either for its own defence or for the service of the noble or sovereign under whom it held its rights.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

And in Lacedaemon and Crete not only men but also women have a pride in their high cultivation.
— from Protagoras by Plato

The Arabian Nights—futile enough in any case—would be absolutely intolerable if they contained no Oriental manners, no human passions, and no convinced epicureanism behind their miracles and their tattle.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The only remedy for cases like these is a countless number of minor exercises of a contrary tendency—making it a rule, for example, to take a long and deep breath every quarter of an hour, lying flat on the ground if possible.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“‘NOT A WORD TO A SOUL’” “At Reading I had to change not only my carriage, but my station.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

In October the new Council of Ten and the new Inquisitors took office, and my protectors wrote to me that if they could not obtain my pardon in the course of the next twelve months they would be inclined to despair.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A cursory examination of the work will show that the Editor has gone much further in this latter direction than any of his predecessors, for it will be found to contain, not only more actual matter than is given in any of theirs with which he is acquainted, but also much of a special character, which is not given, so far as he is aware, in any former work on the subject.
— from The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by John Casey

Then they all plunge in after it; but as soon as it is caught no one more may enter the water.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa —No one may sit as judge in his own case.
— 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.

For the created nature of man is not in the class of things of which such self-evident propositions can by possibility be predicated.
— from Slavery Ordained of God by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross

So much light has been thrown by this means upon customs and observances once almost forgotten and fallen into neglect (which obviously at the time of the Rubric were before the eyes or fresh in the memories of all Church-people), that we can now once more picture to ourselves, without effort, what our forefathers strove successfully to retain as permissible for the maximum ( if not absolutely commanded as the minimum ) of distinctive vesture and ritual to be used in the services of the Church of England.
— from Church Needlework: A manual of practical instruction by Hinda M. Hands

And besides bringing her into far closer relations with the two greatest Mahomedan powers, it gave her a considerable number of Mahomedan subjects, since some of the Caucasus tribes belonged to that faith.
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir

Nobody here seems to know of our marriage; certainly none of my own family seem to take it for granted that I have a wife living; and if I were to bring you over I should have to introduce you, with explanations which would be awkward to both you and me—which, indeed, would be insulting to you.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

But the acting which covers the middle ground, the acting of serious or sentimental comedy and of scenes that may take place in modern drawing-rooms—the acting that corresponds to the contemporary novel of manners—seems by an inexorable necessity given over to amateurishness.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

The cold negative of Mrs. Blackstone had chilled her husband into indifference or disgust.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October 1849 by Various

Drake said, "I can." "No offense meant," Eakins said, "but you don't operate that set of yours worth a damn.
— from Meeting of the Minds by Robert Sheckley

I went on from Goschen's to lunch with Button, and found him with Lord De la Warr, a very worthy Tory peer and country neighbour of my own in Sussex, who had been the year before in Tunis, and had there imbibed, during the French invasion, a certain sympathy with the Arabs.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Soon after these edicts were annulled, and every sort of disorder was committed, taxes upon taxes were laid, loans on loans, reductions of offices, banishments, beheadings, and innumerable despotic acts done, to the very great dissatisfaction of my said well-beloved lord and son lately deceased, and to which he had resolved to put an end, by ordering us to come to him with a competent number of men at arms, notwithstanding any orders we might receive to the contrary; and, as proofs thereof, I have in my possession three letters written and signed with his own hand, containing the above commands.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet