This Porus is a corruption of Puar , once the most powerful and conspicuous tribe in India; classically written Pramara, the dynasty which ruled at Ujjain for ages.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

“That is, by contending that it is not a sight for women they admit that it is a sight for men.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I have not come to indulge in gluttonous feasting, the sin whereof I will strive to chastise; nor will I take mine ease, nor the delights of the fat belly.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The most proper occasion for calling them in is when with small trouble or annoyance to themselves they can be of very great use to the person who needs them.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It is tolerably clear that it is to his connection with Yama, god of Death, and under the evolution of that dualism which divided the universe into upper and nether, that the Dog was degraded among our Aryan ancestors; at the same time his sometimes wolfish disposition and some other natural characters supplied the basis of his demonic character.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

If this capital is divided between two different grocers, their competition will tend to make both of them sell cheaper than if it were in the hands of one only; and if it were divided among twenty, their competition would be just so much the greater, and the chance of their combining together, in order to raise the price, just so much the less.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To many creatures there is in this sense but one necessary of life, Food.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

There is not one of a thousand that is right and settled so much as one minute in a whole life, and that may not very well doubt, whether according to her natural condition she ever can be; but to join constancy to it is her utmost perfection; I mean when nothing should jostle and discompose her, which a thousand accidents may do.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They saw no reason for that premature entrance—what could they do in church if they were there before service began?—and they did not conceive that any power in the universe could take it ill of them if they stayed out and talked a little about “bus'ness.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The system of handrailing is somewhat new, but the author has continually put it to practical test for the last five years, and he is convinced that it is only required to be known to be appreciated.
— from Practical Stair Building and Handrailing By the square section and falling line system. by W. H. Wood

The faint pink revives in her cheek, though it is not quite so full as heretofore.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

I do not claim that it is typical, but does its manner appeal to you?”
— from Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer

They get to feel that it is more necessary for them to be cautious and conventional than it is for others.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

Hebert conceived the infamous idea of wringing from this boy revelations to criminate his unhappy mother.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

He grew at last to feel that sense of equal possession, of intellectual nearness, which it belongs to the peculiar magic of the ancient city to infuse into minds of a cast that she never would have produced.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

The greater complication thus introduced into business was overcome by the Roman merchant through his punctual laboriousness and his system of management by slaves and freedmen —which, regarded from the point of view of the pure capitalist, was far preferable to our counting-house system.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Now the intellect is the proper sense of the mind; and therefore that it should have no congenial speculation, movement, or affection of its own, the attaining to which should be matter of complacency to it, is the most irrational thing in the world, if I have not, by Jove, unwittingly done the men wrong, and been myself imposed upon by some that may perhaps have calumniated them.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

He must show how dreadful for them to forget for an instant—that they are the real inspirers of man; that they ignite his every conception; that it is men who follow and interpret, and the clumsy world is to blame because the praise so often goes to the interpreter, and not to the inspiration.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

The women dress so exactly like the men in this country that it is somewhat difficult to tell the sexes apart.
— from The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism a Reality by Anna Bowman Dodd