Plato seems also to hint at the possibility of other applications of arithmetical or mathematical proportions, such as we employ in chemistry and natural philosophy, such as the Pythagoreans and even Aristotle make use of in Ethics cx and Politics, e.g. his distinction between arithmetical and geometrical proportion in the Ethics (Book V), or between numerical and proportional equality in the Politics (iii. 8, iv.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“You will each carry a plate in your hands to solicit alms, and you must walk together about the ball-room as a band of mendicants.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

justice, equity; equitableness &c. adj.; propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

They lectured chiefly on temperance, but asked incidentally for equal civil and political rights.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The ticket examiner came and punched our tickets.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

The emperors Claudius and Philip, however, did not treat the oracle with implicit respect.
— 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

Quae enim cum aliqua perturbatione fiunt, ea nec constanter fieri possunt neque iis, qui adsunt, probari.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was almost everywhere conceived and practised as a sort of constraint put by the worshipper on the will that he wished to master.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

Bitter cold in Europe, cold at Port Saïd and Suez, chilly in the Red Sea, and wet at Aden!
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

Annually, every public officer renews his oath of allegiance to his majesty, in the most horrid and revolting terms, calling down upon himself every curse and punishment in the present and future world, should he prove disloyal.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

Present Imperative Emphatic: Do take Progressive: Be taking Verbals Verbal Tense Active Voice Passive Voice Infinitive Present: To take To be taken Perfect: To have taken To have been taken Gerund Present: Taking Being taken Perfect: Having taken Having been taken Participle Present: Taking Being taken Past: Taken Perfect: Having taken Having been taken Exercise: Copy a page of good prose from any book, leaving wide spaces between the lines.
— from The Century Handbook of Writing by Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones

One can appreciate the hardihood of Deutschmann, who alone, and with nothing but tallow candles, explored caves and potholes [Pg 128] and corridors.
— from Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

Had a bomb shell exploded in the room, it would not have surprised and shocked the pastor and his wife so much as that which they had just heard; and coming just at the time when the pastor thought he was making everything clear and plain, it confused him terribly, and in his ears kept ringing what Walter had said: "I was trying to think, when God started His second creation, for He had finished His first one on the sixth day and rested from His work which He had made, on the seventh day."
— from The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter

But there is a great deal to set against both: so much as to make it extremely probable that the utmost that can be got from the first statement is, that a part of the Belgæ, and more especially the Condrusi, Eburones, Cærasi, and Pæmani were Germans only in the way that the people of Guernsey and Jersey are English, i.e. , politically but not ethnologically; and that the second only proves that certain national names occurred on both sides of the channel.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham