He sent likewise his nomenclators about the forums and courts, to invite people of all ages, the old as well as the young, to his brothel, to come and satisfy their lusts; and he was ready to lend his customers money upon interest; clerks attending to take down their names in public, as persons who contributed to the emperor’s revenue.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Pg 43 Greek text Also, that which is still contained in the veins, and still more, that which is in the stomach, from the fact that it is destined to nourish if properly elaborated, has been called “nutriment.”
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

At last the king says to Harek, "Now thou mayst return home, and I will do thee no injury; partly because we are related together, and partly that thou mayst not have it to say that I caught thee by a trick: but know for certain that I intend to come north next summer to visit you Halogalanders, and ye shall then see if I am not able to punish those who reject Christianity."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I will not attempt to describe the night I passed with my charmer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He had dined, therefore went away, and I to dinner, and after dinner by coach to Barkeshire-house, and there did get a very great meeting; the Duke of York being there, and much business done, though not in proportion to the greatness of the business, and my Lord Chancellor sleeping and snoring the greater part of the time.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If such is the clew to actions which certainly have looked dubious till now, I pray that you will reconsider your duty and not play the Don Quixote too far."
— from The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green

It would have been easy to find double this number in Pisa, if beauty had been the only quality required in the attendant damsels.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

Later she lost the impulse that led her to come to that decision, but during that night it persisted.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson

It penetrated Scotland, and while its whirlwind bore along persuasion among glens and mountains, it shrunk from no danger, and hesitated at no ambition; it nerved its rugged but hearty envoy to resist the flatteries of the beautiful Queen Mary; it assumed the education of her only son; it divided the nobility; it penetrated the masses, overturned the ancient ecclesiastic establishment, planted free parochial schools, and gave a living energy to the principle of liberty in a people.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

After dinner that night I played a very pleasant rubber of whist with my client, and the doctor and his wife.
— from The Other World by Frank Frankfort Moore

The author dresses the nymph in [Pg 286] a style that ingeniously indicates the character he desires to paint.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

And, if he hasn't come down again, there he is still hanging, with his scrip, between Heaven and Earth, to this very day that now is." PETER'S THREE TALES.
— from Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

[during the night].... I ponder on the things that have taken place.
— from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir