Yet their martial creed still represented the Deity as the author of war: the vital though latent spark of fanaticism still glowed in the heart of their religion, and among the Saracens, who dwelt on the Christian borders, it was frequently rekindled to a lively and active flame.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Two-Eyes, however, bade them welcome, invited them in, and took care of them, till they both repented of their evil which they had done to their sister in the days of their childhood.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Thus, too, they have examples for those who are deprived of their children: they who are under any great grief are comforted by instances of like affliction; and thus the endurance 116 of every misfortune is rendered more easy by the fact of others having undergone the same, and the fate of others causes what has happened to appear less important than it has been previously thought, and reflection thus discovers to us how much opinion had imposed on us.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thus, in the Heptaplus, or Discourse on the Seven Days of the Creation, he endeavours to reconcile the accounts which pagan philosophy had given of the origin of the world with the account given in the books of Moses—the Timaeus of Plato with the book of Genesis.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Monte Cristo approached, and dropped on his purple lips three or four drops of the contents of the phial.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Sometimes she would be absent for several days on end, when the Verdurins took her to see the tombs at Dreux, or to Compiègne, on the painter's advice, to watch the sun setting through the forest—after which they went on to the Château of Pierrefonds.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other, the convention have, with great judgment, opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for conviction of it, and restraining the Congress, even in punishing it, from extending the consequences of guilt beyond the person of its author.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In one place, men feed upon human flesh; in another, ‘tis reputed a pious office for a man to kill his father at a certain age; elsewhere, the fathers dispose of their children, whilst yet in their mothers’ wombs, some to be preserved and carefully brought up, and others to be abandoned or made away.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It is true that a call is necessary; but it is not from the decrees of the Council that we must learn whether we are called, it is from the necessity of speaking.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Hiss–s–s–s came from far in the depths of the cave.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

I bought it merely for the delicacy of the coloring."
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Valdés

The door of the cottage ajar,—no one visible as yet.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I lodged a rifled percussion shell near her stern post—where there were no chains—which failed to explode because of the defect of the cap.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich

From the hopper the material dropped onto the conveyor belt and was carried back over the arch and dumped in place ready for tamping.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

The emancipation and deliverance of the downtrodden masses of men who owed their evil estate to the destruction of the Christian society of the Middle Ages, was a clamourous necessity; it was a slavery as bad in some ways as any that had existed in antiquity, and the number of its victims was greater.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

Came down on the cars far's there last night, but he didn't dast to come no further 'count of bein' afraid to drive from the Centre in the storm.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Close to the king went a cage such as is seen at Lisbon on the day of the Corpo de Dios festival, and it was gilded and very large; it seemed to me to be made of copper or silver; it was carried by sixteen men, eight on each side, besides others who took their turns, and in it is carried the idol of which I have already spoken.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century