But there were three other people of the name of Archelaus: one, a geographer, who described the countries traversed by Alexander; the second, a man who wrote a poem on objects which have two natures; and the third, an orator, who wrote a book containing the precepts of his art.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But shortly afterwards he summoned the officers; assigned to them severally the posts best calculated for the success of the undertaking; communicated to them the watchword and the exact moment the movement was to be made; and issued orders to the commanders to be at the posts assigned with their men at the morning watch.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

When they entered the gates, there was not indeed that tumult nor panic, such as usually takes place with captured cities when the gates being burst open, or the walls levelled by the ram, or the citadel taken by assault, the shouts of the enemy and rush of armed men through the city throws every thing into confusion by fire and sword: but gloomy silence and speechless sorrow so absorbed the minds of all, that, through fear, forgetting what they should leave behind, what they should take with them, all concert failing them, and frequently making inquiries of each other, they now stood at their thresholds, now wandering about they strayed through their houses, doomed to see them for that the last time.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[10] porque eso de que ... es cosa triste, because all that ( business of eating ices while ... ) is rather a sad thing ( to contemplate ).
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Of the former of these, which is addressed to Cicero, three books at the beginning are also lost.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

For the law was but universal custom, and that custom had no sanction; but for breach of the custom anybody could make personal attack, or combine with his friends to make attack, on the person who committed the breach, and then, when the matter was taken up by the members of both tribes, and finally by the witenagemot as a judicial court, the question was, what the law was.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[CAS. 678] But if we should grant (to Ephorus) that this oblique line is the direction of the isthmus, most of these places, Cappadocia in particular, would be included, and (the kingdom of) Pontus, properly so called, which is a part of Cappadocia on the Euxine; so that if we were to admit the Chalybes to be a part of the peninsula, with more reason we ought to admit the Cataonians, the two nations of Cappadocians, and the Lycaonians, whom even he himself has omitted.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In the introduction of the choruses also, though they possess much lyrical sublimity and many beauties, the spirit of the ancients has been totally mistaken; as each of the hostile brothers has a chorus attached to his, the one contending against the other, they both cease to be a true chorus; that is, the voice of human sympathy and contemplation elevated above all personal considerations.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

If there ever chanced to be an apple core, a stray turnip, or wisp of hay, in the gutter, this Mark Tapley was sure to find it, and none of his mates seemed to begrudge him his bite.
— from Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

By this time the boy was close to the river, and crossing the bridge at the foot of the street, he hurried on in the direction where the old lumberman resided.
— from Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The ruins of the Colosseum, the Campanile at Florence, St. Mark's, Cologne, the Bourse and Notre Dame are with our tourists as familiar as household words; but they know nothing of the glories of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

To sum up; every demand for explanation in regard to freedom comes back, without our suspecting it, to the following question: "Can time be adequately represented by space?
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

[108] "You're a rude fellow!" cried the beetle; and then he went out of the stable, flew a little way, and soon afterwards found himself in a beautiful flower garden, all fragrant with roses and lavender.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Neglect nobody, if you wish your company to be a pleasant one, and if strangers are present, introduce them to those they are likely to find most agreeable.
— from Harper's Young People, April 18, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various