Aphrodite accordingly gave him, as a playfellow, his younger brother Anteros (requited love), and soon had the gratification of seeing the little Eros begin to grow and thrive; but, curious to relate, this desirable result only continued as long as the brothers remained together, for the moment they were separated, Eros shrank once more to his original size.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

For the individuals are fleeting as the water in the brook; and Ideas, on the contrary, are permanent, like its eddies: but the exhaustion of the water would also do away with the eddies.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

When they were come, he first admonished them to preserve the virtue of love and peace among themselves, and towards all the faithful; and with unwearied earnestness to follow the rules of monastic discipline, which they had either been taught by him, and had seen him observe, or had found in the words and actions of the former fathers.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

That is clearly proved by the laws of the Twelve Tables, by the "sacred" laws, [CG] by the treaties in which good faith is pledged even to the enemy, by the investigations made by the censors and the penalties imposed by them; for there were no cases in which they used to render more rigorous decisions than in cases of violation of an oath.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The ship moved so smoothly that her onward motion was imperceptible to the senses of men, as though she had been a crowded planet speeding through the dark spaces of ether behind the swarm of suns, in the appalling and calm solitudes awaiting the breath of future creations.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

For the rest I think I may be excused here from a detailed refutation of all these doctrines; that would only be superfluous labour, since it is so easy, and is probably so well seen even by those whose office requires them to decide for one of these theories (because their hearers would not tolerate suspension of judgement).
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

These were filled with water and served to cook the flesh in of the unfortunate beings who had been sacrificed; which flesh was eaten by the papas.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Fashion Has Little In Common With Beauty Fashion ought to be likened to a tide or epidemic; sometimes one might define it as a sort of hypnotism, seemingly exerted by the gods as a joke.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Not only was the town valuable for the timber it afforded for shipbuilding, and the money that it brought in; but also, although the escort of the Thessalians gave the Lacedaemonians a means of reaching the allies of Athens as far as the Strymon, yet as long as they were not masters of the bridge but were watched on the side of Eion by the Athenian galleys, and on the land side impeded by a large and extensive lake formed by the waters of the river, it was impossible for them to go any further.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It seemed to me, therefore, that there was great need of and that the time was ripe for a book which, while affording the student of Spanish abundant exercise in the reading of that tongue, would at the same time give him some adequate idea of the physical aspects of the various Southern republics, their commercial and transportation routes, their agricultural and industrial products, the opportunities they offer for business and industrial investment, and the manners and customs of the people themselves together with their social and political creeds and aspirations, as expressed by their most noted statesmen and writers.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“If the young lady is friend of yours you may be her escort back to Hillsboro’ when the mission is ended.” “Thank you, sir,” said Drayton, saluting again.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

“My brother now, at the age of fifteen, bade adieu to all learning, and to everything else but to his dog and gun; with which latter he became so expert,
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A Red Guard, finally exasperated by the taunts of the crowd, had shot into it, wounding a young girl in the arm.
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

Further, it was urged that there should be a fast all-round-the-world British steamship service which would bind together more closely all portions of the empire, by taking advantage of the shorter ocean route which services between Canada and Europe, via Great Britain on the east, and Asia and the Orient on the west, could offer, if Halifax and Galway were used as the termini for the Atlantic coasts.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

When the marks of the disease cleared away, they did not, it is true, leave furrows or scars on her face (except one, perhaps, on her forehead over her left eyebrow); but the delicacy of her rosy colour and complexion were gone: her eyes had lost their brilliancy, her hair fell, and her face looked older.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

Lad's extra flesh, too, was a bad handicap; his wind was not at all what it should have been, and the unwonted exertion began to tell sharply on him.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

I dreamt, then, that I was on the second dog-watch, as you know I shall be this evening; it was between seven and eight bells, the night pitch-dark, with the wind blowing fresh from the northeast, the ship under double-reefed topsails, and foresail close hauled on the starboard tack, running at the rate of five knots as I had found upon heaving the log.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

Ideal rural peace, and the music of an English summer evening; but to my eyes, every shadow holding fantastic terrors; to my ears, every sound a signal of dread.
— from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

And now completely dead even beyond the utmost lash of Islamic fanaticism, the [66] Malay dropped face down.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

It was one of the earliest bodies to declare for negro suffrage and white disfranchisement, [1545] and this declaration was made repeatedly during the three years following the war, when it was continued as a kind of Radical bureau in the Republican party to control the negro vote in the South.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming