And may I never have any dealings with those who are called diviners, and who in any way or manner counsel me to take up the deposit entrusted to the earth, for I should not gain so much in the increase of my possessions, if I take up the prize, as I should grow in justice and virtue of soul, if I abstain; and this will be a better possession to me than the other in a better part of myself; for the possession of justice in the soul is preferable to the possession of wealth.
— from Laws by Plato

Also, in order to make sure that the beasts should not prove a source of terror to the horses he constructed images of elephants that were smeared with some kind of ointment to give them a fearful odor and were frightful both to see and to hear (for a mechanical device enabled them to emit a roar resembling thunder); and he kept continually leading the horses up to these representations until they took courage.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

On the present occasion this suited Christie; and she ate her dinner without making any more discoveries, except that the earth-stained hands were very clean now, and skilfully supplied her wants before she could make them known.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

A full moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste, for it was plain, before we came forth again, that all would be as bright as day, and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ti dê to kerdos ek tôn toioutôn dogmatôn eis tas therapeias ektêsato?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But what need is there that I should sin yet again declaring everything to the end by my prophetic art?
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

I have done everything to that end.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The Platonist Plotinus discourses [Pg 403] concerning providence, and, from the beauty of flowers and foliage, proves that from the supreme God, whose beauty is unseen and ineffable, providence reaches down even to these earthly things here below; and he argues that all these frail and perishing things could not have so exquisite and elaborate a beauty, were they not fashioned by Him whose unseen and unchangeable beauty continually pervades all things.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Energeiai d' epi trisi tois eirêmenois ergois treis ex anankês, eph' hekastô mia, genesis te kai Pg 18 Greek text auxêsis kai threpsis.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Arcadius, son of Theodosius, 150 ; Rufinus appointed his guardian, 203 ; does not oppose the ambition of Rufinus, 204 ; Eutropius gains complete mastery of his feeble mind after the death of Rufinus, 209 ; neglect of his empire, 210 ; becomes a mere puppet, 211 ; his palaces and pageants, 211 ; dismisses Eutropius, 248 ; promises Chrysostom to respect his minister’s retreat in the church, 251 ; entreats the troops to refrain from violence towards Eutropius, 251 ; misgivings as to beheading his late minister, 255 ; yields to the demands of Gaïnas, 259 ; ratifies the deposition of Chrysostom by the “Synod of the Oak,” 316 ; refuses to attend church on Christmas Day until the archbishop has cleared himself, 329 ; the patriarch’s case pleaded before him, 330 , 331 ; orders Chrysostom to be removed from the church to his palace, 332 ; his alarm, 332 ; sends for Acacius and Antiochus, 332 ; turns a deaf ear to the entreaty of the forty bishops, 333 ; permits a concourse of Christians at Pempton to be dispersed, 337 .
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

His researches were chiefly connected with the sciences of geology and palaeontology, and were directed especially to the elucidation of the characters, classification, history, geological and geographical distribution of recent and fossil Brachiopoda.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

There is the simpler one of getting an abundance of good books, classical and contemporary, and of good publications distributed everywhere through the English-speaking world, and there is the more subtle and complex problem of getting, stimulating, and sustaining the original writers and the original critics and investigators upon whom the general development of contemporary thought, upon whom indeed the progress of the world finally depends.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was a disappointing end to the expedition; but only one man of them, a trumpeter, had been killed, and they were all glad enough to get off so lightly.
— from With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

A separation was the consequence, and this loving couple dwelt in distinct establishments till the end of their lives.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

Probably, in any country where they managed things according to "rough justice" instead of with judges and juries, no one would have blamed Julia Decies even to the extent of a day's imprisonment for seeking to avenge herself in the most extreme form on an environment so intolerable—on a man whom, in the judge's phrase, "no one, probably, would very much lament."
— from The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

He is hampered by having constantly to assert the true free will and responsibility of Satan for his rebellion and of Adam for his disobedience, even to the extent of putting argumentative soliloquies confessing it into their own mouths.
— from Milton by John Cann Bailey

The Japs insisted that the natives take off their big straw hats and bow deeply each time they encountered a Japanese soldier.
— from Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book by Eugene C. Jacobs

" In some cases he had to creep across No Man's Land and a greater part of the time was directly exposed to the enemy's fire.
— from History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by William Allison Sweeney