9 On the following year, when the consuls Caius Sulpicius and Caius Licinius Calvus led an army against the Hernicians, and finding no enemy in the country took their city Ferentinum by storm, as they were returning thence, the Tiburtians shut their gates against them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The present societary forces are antagonistic to petty class spirit, and Chivalry is, as Freeman severely criticizes, a class spirit.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

But, say they, there is no body which can suffer and cannot also die.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

That line of Ovid's, Pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram , can be applied in its true physical sense to the lower animals alone; but in a metaphorical and spiritual sense it is, alas!
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

To their question, "Why did you choose such a character, or a character from such a rank of life?"—the poet might in my opinion fairly retort: why with the conception of my character did you make wilful choice of mean or ludicrous associations not furnished by me, but supplied from your own sickly and fastidious feelings?
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

a commoner send a challenge to a peer of the realm!—Privilege!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Common from Cicero, Sallust, and Catullus on, especially in poetry.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

What we mean, indeed, by the natural world in which the conditions of consciousness are found and in reference to which mind and its purposes can attain practical efficacy, is simply the world constructed by categories found to yield a constant, sufficient, and consistent object.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He can coax the animal out of the water and up on the rocks, and after that we can send a couple more men down with the sling and they can do the rest. See the plan?"
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump

I am one of those who think that everything here below can serve as copy for a newspaper man; that the earth, the moon, the sky, the universe were only made as fitting subjects for newspaper articles, and that my pen was in no fear of a holiday on the road.
— from The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" by Jules Verne

He is a charming singer at Calais; at Dover he inspires un morne étonnement (a bleak perplexity).
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

I simply posted [53] my letter in Crewe station, and changed from one train to the other."
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

I had his chaplain seized and carried away; I induced a wild drunken Huguenot soldier, not without talents, but without religion or principle, to enact the priest, and brought him to the Hotel de Guise at the moment that a priest was wanted.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The Division passed by 9 A. M. but as the train could not take all of the commissary stores and cotton at headquarters, we had to lay there all day hitched up, waiting for the trains to return from Oxford.
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

The book from beginning to end shows signs of careful study and compilation, and the fame which it brought to its author was well deserved.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

When Burns, in the midst of the sulphurous orthodoxy of Scotland, dared to say, “The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order,” he was only appealing to the common sense and common humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He goes on, therefore, cheerful and contented: he labors much, he suffers much, he renounces much, he contends much in the cause of Christ; and he does this in every place to which he moves, in every changing situation and circumstance, and in every season of life through which he passes.
— from Stories for the Young; Or, Cheap Repository Tracts Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by Hannah More

Lochaber seldom laughs, except for its children, such as Camerons, McDonalds, Campbells and other products of the mist; but in the summer of 1902 Scotland put on fewer airs of coquetry than usual.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams