They are religious excessively beyond all other men, and with regard to this they have customs as follows:—they drink from cups of bronze and rinse them out every day, and not some only do this but all: they wear garments of linen always newly washed, and this they make a special point of practice: they circumcise themselves for the sake of cleanliness, preferring to be clean rather than comely.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He told it on the roads to the people who passed, at the cabaret to the people who drank and next Sunday when they came out of church.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If you once got stuck in that black mud you’d be sucked right down and never seen or heard tell of again till the day of judgment, like Adam Palmer’s cow.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Now flaming from the zenith, Sol had driven His fervid orb through half the vault of heaven; While on each host with equal tempests fell The showering darts, and numbers sank to hell.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Then the huntsman said, ‘Give the old one stripes three times a day and hay once; give the next (who was the servant-maid) stripes once a day and hay three times; and give the youngest (who was the beautiful lady) hay three times a day and no stripes’: for he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

After Lamb's death a new series of Popular Fallacies was contributed to the New Monthly Magazine by L.B. (Laman Blanchard) in 1835, preceded by an invocation to the spirit of Charles Lamb.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Dum alteri noceat sui negligens
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The young prince was day and night screaming with pain, and no one could ascertain the disease, far less give him relief.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Bounce you, John Doe, and never show up here again!
— from The Man: A Story of To-day by Elbert Hubbard

It was well done, as newspaper stories go, this account of a lurid night on Broadway which wound up in a crescendo of brilliance with the flooring of a policeman.
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

They had descended a narrow slope, and were now climbing a hollow road.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

303 Already we have conquer'd half the war, And the less dangerous part is left behind: Our trouble now is but to make them dare, And not so great to vanquish as to find.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

It is demonstrable that an animal of the cretaceous sea might die, that its skeleton might lie uncovered upon the sea-bottom long enough to lose all its outward coverings and appendages by putrefaction; and that, after this had happened, another animal might attach itself to the dead and naked skeleton, might grow to maturity, and might itself die before the calcareous mud had buried the whole.
— from Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The Majors smiled with a sober joy, and the subalterns waltzed in pairs down the Mess-room after dinner, and nearly shot themselves at revolver-practice.
— from Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

The spring crops are short in five districts, and nobody seems to know where the rains are.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

This island, which he discovered and named St. Salvador, lies about a thousand leagues from the Canaries.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

The duchess and her family having very pleasantly passed a week at the palace, now prepared for their regretted departure, and next sadly to bid an affectionate farewell.
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge