25 Quid enim censemus superiorem illum Dionysium quo cruciatu timoris angi solitum, qui cultros metuens tonsorios candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The geniuses of all ages and countries speak in different languages; but in them all burns the same flame.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Certainly," said I. "Don't wake Miss Clare."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Ut in civitatibus contumaces qui non cedunt politico imperio vi coercendi sunt; ita Deus nobis indidit alteram imperii formam; si cor non deponit vitiosum affectum, membra foras coercenda sunt, ne ruant in quod affectus impellant: et locomotiva, quae herili imperio obtemperat, alteri resistat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
It sets up a standard to which the neighborhood must rise, if it cannot succeed in dragging it down to its own low level.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell, For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
The air compressed inside the craft sent its decks flying, as if the powder stores had been ignited.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
The consequence of a defeat was death to the person accused, or to the champion or witness, as well as to the accuser himself: but in civil cases, the demandant was punished with infamy and the loss of his suit, while his witness and champion suffered ignominious death.
— 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
not having seen the large fountain of which Capt. Clark spoke I determined to visit it today as I could better spare this day from my attention to the boat than probably any other when the work would be further advanced; accordingly after seting the hands at their several employments I took Drewyer and seet out for the fountain and passed through a level beautiful plain for about Six miles when I reached the brake of the river hills here we were overtaken by a violent gust of wind and rain from the S. W. attended with thunder and Litning.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
Papa is too busy, and Mama always says when I ask question, 'Don't trouble your head with such things, child,' so I don't.
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott
Death can, whenever we please, cut short inconveniences Death has us every moment by the throat
— from Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
The case of the Countess Strahni is different——" He paused a moment to rub his hands together thoughtfully.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
"Chut," said I, "dropped my cigar.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
Should the wintry weather continue severe, I do not think that the $25,000 a month, which the Minister of the Interior grants for the purposes of charity, will be sufficient.
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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