Besides, they are our outward consciences And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should dress us fairly for our end.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

So I seated myself on the seat by him as a suppliant, and begged him to give me as many men as he could spare, that I might wreak what mischief I could on those who had driven us forth from our land; that thus I might cease to live in dependence upon another's board, like a dog watching his master's hand.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Many expressions in common use violate this principle: the question as to whether whether (the question whether) there is no doubt but that no doubt (doubtless) used for fuel purposes used for fuel he is a man who he in a hasty manner hastily this is a subject which this subject His story is a strange one.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

That is what distinguishes us from foreign lands.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Truth depends upon facts for its perspective, since facts select truths and decide which truths shall be mere possibilities and which shall be the eternal forms of actual things.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

roga montes ut in planum deveniant, ut fontes flumina repetant; tam possum te non amare ac suum Phoebus relinquere cursum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There ought also to be temples erected at proper places, both to the gods and the heroes; but it is unnecessary to dwell longer and most minutely on these particulars—for it is by no means difficult to plan these things, it is rather so to carry them into execution; for the theory is the child of our wishes, but the practical part must depend upon fortune; for which reason we shall decline saying anything farther upon these subjects.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Tail deep umber, faintly fading at the tip, and crossed by six or seven very regular, sharply defined, but obscure, bands of blackish; the alternating light bars become paler and more rufous toward the edge of the tail, the lateral feathers being almost wholly pale cream-color or ochraceous, darker terminally; this tint is more or less prevalent on the inner webs of nearly all the feathers.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Clayton was followed, and done up for fair.
— from The Midnight Passenger : A Novel by Richard Savage

This, we know from a mildly reproachful letter, written by Franklin to John Paul Jones, a Mr. Moylan was not kind enough to do when he drew upon Franklin for nearly one hundred thousand livres for supplies ordered by Jones for the Ariel .
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

G. Preparing a new decade upon Fossil fishes for this place.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

These perplexing rebuffs gave my uncle Toby Shandy more perturbations than you would imagine: and as my father’s kindness to him was continually dragging up fresh friends and fresh enquirers,——he had but a very uneasy task of it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

What's de use for feel downhearted?
— from By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus Mackay