The travelers had chosen crossroads in the hope that they might meet with less interruption; but at Crevecoeur, Aramis declared he could proceed no farther.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued [Pg 383] with us."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Satis enim nobis, si modo in philosophia aliquid profecimus, persuasum esse debet, si omnes deos hominesque celare possimus, nihil tamen avare, nihil iniuste, nihil libidinose, nihil incontinenter esse faciendum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dogs, horses, carriages, postillions, To give this man seemed Fortune's whim.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

All the details of her melancholy adventure, from the nocturnal scene at la Falourdel’s to her condemnation to the Tournelle, recurred to her memory, no longer vague and confused as heretofore, but distinct, harsh, clear, palpitating, terrible.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

He then becomes a hypocrite, timorous and demure; he counsels “peace of soul,” hate-no-more, leniency, “love” of friend and foe.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.— Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation; for the hour precise Exacts our parting hence; and see the guards, By me encamped on yonder hill, expect Their motion; at whose front a flaming sword, In signal of remove, waves fiercely round: We may no longer stay: go, waken Eve; Her also I with gentle dreams have calmed Portending good, and all her spirits composed To meek submission: thou, at season fit, Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard; Chiefly what may concern her faith to know, The great deliverance by her seed to come (For by the Woman's seed) on all mankind: That ye may live, which will be many days, Both in one faith unanimous, though sad, With cause, for evils past; yet much more cheered With meditation on the happy end.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

In the exhibition of public games, and the idle trappings of dignity, he consulted propriety and the measure of his fortune; by no means approaching to extravagance, yet inclining rather to a popular course.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Both she and Doreen had cordially pressed him to repeat his visits, as they gave Waveney so much pleasure.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Giotto designed his Campanile primarily for the bells that were to summon the Florentines to their cathedral; the Venetians wanted façades for their palaces, and made façades to delight their eyes; the Japanese have wanted small furniture for their small rooms, and have developed wonderful skill and taste in designing it.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

At the end of last century a provincial attorney advertised an estate for sale, or to be exchanged for another, stating that he was appointed Plenipotentiary to treat in the business; that he had ample credentials , and was prepared to ratify his powers ; that he would enter into preliminaries either upon the principle of the statu quo or uti possidetis ; that he was ready to receive the project of any person desirous to make the purchase or exchange, and to deliver his contre projet and sine quâ non , and, indeed, at once give his ultimatum , assuring the public that as soon as a definitive treaty should be concluded , it would be ratified by his constituent and duly guaranteed .
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

[Holotype.—FMNH 69702 from Acevedo, Río Suaza, Departamento Huila, Colombia; Philip collector].
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman

Although Hood had been elevated to the command of a division, he could proudly claim that the Texans’ “gallantry and unflinching courage” were “unsurpassed within the history of the world.”
— from Texas in the Civil War: A Résumé History by Allan Coleman Ashcraft

The mother called his sisters, who repaired to the room with an elder girl, and they, seeing that he stoutly persisted in declaring himself cured, persuaded his mother to let him rise.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

The dinner was a silent one, as the Marquis tactfully did not disturb his companions' preoccupation, and Mrs. Frost, who was unusually nervous, did not appear.
— from The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold

The whole country seemed parched up, and it was with the greatest difficulty he could push on at all; and as the [174] fatigue to himself and his horse necessitated him to make his day's stages much shorter than he desired, it was the sixth day from his leaving Strawberry Hill that he entered the village of Waverley on the Brisbane river.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

“And that's rather more than you deserve,” he concluded, pleasantly, “though the Lord knows you've been going through a pretty severe mill.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

Closing the door, he commenced pacing the small apartment with the step and eye of a man who again mused with some anxiety.
— from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper