In quo neutrorum omnino contemnenda sententia est, sed et facilior et tutior et minus aliis gravis aut molesta vita est otiosorum, fructuosior autem hominum generi et ad claritatem amplitudinemque aptior eorum, qui se ad
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Her august birth might justify a stipulation in the marriage-contract, that her children should equally share the empire with their elder brother.
— 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

'You doubtless believe this music to have some connection with the chateau,' said Emily suddenly, 'and are, therefore, superstitious.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

For the Common-Sense notions of the different excellences of conduct (considered as extending beyond the range of strict duty) are generally so vague as to offer at least no definite resistance to a Utilitarian interpretation of their scope: by teaching and acting upon such an interpretation a man is in no danger of being brought into infelicific discord with Common Sense: especially since the ideal of moral excellence seems to vary within the limits of the same community to a much greater extent than the code of strict duty.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Some transatlantic huge success ; Or else some play of Irish life, Ending with father, son and wife Impaled upon a single knife; Or haply I had chanced to choose Some even surer source of blues, One of the things they call revues.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-06-30 by Various

“I would have come sooner, Esther,” said Anne, “but that I thought you had been told.”
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The guard would halt, about face, front rank with fixed bayonets kneel, rear rank fire, when, by the light of the flash, we could see emptied saddles.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

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— from The Project Gutenberg RST Manual by Marcello Perathoner

In this way those 'purgative' songs afford a harmless pleasure, and it is for this reason that there ought to be a legal enactment to the effect that performers giving public concerts should employ such harmonies and such songs.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

one of which fell with him, [698] Unwilling to outlive the good that did it; [699] 60 The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Leaves: On long petioles, commonly compounded of 3, but sometimes of 4 to 11 oval or oblong leaflets, marked with white crescent, often dark-spotted near centre; stipules egg-shaped, sharply pointed, strongly veined, more than 1/2 in.
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan