And it is no slight aid to tranquillity of mind if what is bad be capable of cure, and lighter and less violent.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

In the window facing Maumee Street stood a chunk of coal as large as an apple barrel, to indicate that orders for coal were taken, and beside the black mass of the coal stood three combs of honey grown brown and dirty in their wooden frames.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

They displayed them at an improper season, presumptuously disturbed the service of the assembly, and, by their pride or mistaken zeal, they introduced, particularly into the apostolic church of Corinth, a long and melancholy train of disorders.
— 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

" As Lydgate had said of him, he was a sort of gypsy, rather enjoying the sense of belonging to no class; he had a feeling of romance in his position, and a pleasant consciousness of creating a little surprise wherever he went.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

hīc and ille are often opposed, particularly in contrasts of classes: as, laudātur ab hīs, culpātur ab illīs , H. S. 1, 2, 11, one side praises him, the other condemns .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The aim of this work is to shew that God had at all times in the history of the Christian Church a considerable number of believing Israelites who, after [Pg 6] their conversion to Christianity, rendered good service to their fellowmen and to the Church of Christ at large.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

We spoke of the fact that in our newly opened Law Courts one could already lay one’s finger upon so many talented and remarkable young barristers.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And on the same principle he asserted that there was no such thing as downright truth; but that men did everything in consequence of custom and law.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The floor of the cellar was covered with a layer of concrete, then with two coats of cement, another layer of concrete and a coat of bitumen.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

She came upon the corset counter and paused in rich reverie as she noted the dainty concoctions of colour and lace there displayed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The churches of Cavinti and Lukban were destroyed, that of Antipolo and others badly damaged. 44 1824 X 26 — — IX Destructive in Manila and neighboring provinces.
— from Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Miguel Saderra Masó

Your mother thought she was drowned more than once, and at last gave up all hope of getting home alive, and but that she could hear the barking of dogs and the cries of children a little way below, she would have collapsed altogether.'
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

Pontic envoys were sent to the king of Egypt and to the last remnant of free Greece, the league of the Cretan cities, and adjured those for whom Rome had already forged her chains to rise now at the last moment and save Hellenic nationality; the attempt was in the case of Crete at least not wholly in vain, and numerous Cretans took service in the Pontic army.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

[296] under Caesar Octavianus, carried a law which was called from their names Papia Poppaea , offering rewards to fathers for rearing children.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

They could embrace a greater quantity of land in their grasp, and so save the trouble which attended an estimate of the returns of a great number of small holdings; they possessed more effective means of reclaiming waste or devastated land, for they had a greater control of capital and labour; lastly, through their large bands of clients and slaves, they had the means of efficiently protecting the land which they had occupied, and this must have been an important consideration at a time when large tracts of the ager publicus lay amidst foreign territories which were barely pacified, and were owned by communities that often wavered in their allegiance to Rome.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Come on!" cried a lieutenant.
— from The Khaki Boys Fighting to Win; or, Smashing the German Lines by Gordon Bates

{253} Maiden Lane, now called Park Lane, rejoiced in one: Gravel Lane, more blessed still, was happy with a ditch or stream on each side: Dirty Lane had one: another ran along Bandy Leg Walk: other streams flowed, or crept, or crawled, across Lambeth Marsh and St. George's Fields.
— from South London by Walter Besant

Her husband was an American, an enthusiastic collector of ceramics and Levantine bric-à-brac , and the owner of a celebrated collection of scarabs—not bought at the Luxor factory, but separated from the mummies with the golden lever one must use to acquire these treasures; because it is the same, whether a collector has them dug from the graves for gold or whether he buys them after some one else has dug them.
— from A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble) Bayne

She went back into her kitchen, and, after a brief absence, during which Frau Schwarz continued surreptitiously to scrutinise Maurice, came out carrying a large plateful of BERLINER PFANNKUCHEN.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson