VI. Aemilius, when elected consul, marched against the sub-Alpine Ligurians, called by some Ligustines, a brave and spirited nation, and from their nearness to Rome, skilled in the arts of war.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

nor, it gives me pleasure to reflect, did the truth, as it came home to my perception, ever cost me a pang, or require to be thrown off in a sigh.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Pg 363] however, as will be shown in due order, that a few of the early Celtic missionaries, always famous for their Celtic independence even in questions touching Christian theology and government, did not feel themselves bound by the decisions of continental Church Councils with respect to this particular doctrine.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

1905—Frederick A. Cauchois introduces his Private Estate coffee maker, a filtration device employing Japanese filter paper.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Everybody congratulates me and Varenka keeps clinging to me and saying: “Now you are mine, mine; do you understand that?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" At this the goddess rolled her radiant eyes, Then on the Thunderer fix'd them, and replies: "Three towns are Juno's on the Grecian plains, More dear than all the extended earth contains, Mycenae, Argos, and the Spartan wall; 127 These thou mayst raze, nor I forbid their fall: 'Tis not in me the vengeance to remove; The crime's sufficient that they share my love.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was observed that each physical state in which he found himself, excluded certain memories and brought with it a definite modification of character.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

To be a wall with a damper a stream of pounding way and nearly enough choice makes a steady midnight.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

‘Affection,’ said Miss Lavinia, glancing at her sister for corroboration, which she gave in the form of a little nod to every clause, ‘mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The matter was placed in charge of the then chancellor of the exchequer, Charles Montague, afterwards Earl of Halifax, and he, with the assistance of Sir Isaac Newton, successfully accomplished the very arduous task.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

Even the philosophy of the eighteenth century, materialistic as were for the most part the tendencies of its leaders, seemed to revere man as a being apart, concerning whom laws might be formulated a priori.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

my long-lost friend, Claude de Blenau,” exclaimed Cinq Mars, as the Count sprang from his horse; “welcome from the midst of prisons and trials, perils and dangers!”
— from Richelieu: A Tale of France, v. 3/3 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He so individualized each character, male and female, that there was no difficulty in following the course of the story.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

"He didn't exactly call me a liar, but he looked as if he wanted to.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

It so happens, Rostopchin explained, that the officer in charge of the prison feeding arrangements is a very energetic fellow, who had served in the old army in a similar capacity, and the meals served out to the prisoners are so much better than those produced in the Soviet headquarters, that the members of the Executive Committee make a practice of walking over to the prison to dine.
— from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome

Exports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages Exports - partners: Germany 14.9%, Spain 9.3%, Italy 8.9%, UK 8.1%, Belgium 7.3%, US 6.1%, Netherlands 4.1% (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Four Protestant against three Roman Catholic voices in the Electoral College must at once have given the preponderance to the former, and for ever excluded the House of Austria from the imperial throne.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

But Syracuse has no reason to complain of scarcity, or to eat shark's flesh from necessity; most of the Scomber family,—the alatorya , the palamida , and a fine gray-coloured fellow which the fishermen call serra , frequent her coast; then there is the Cefalo —the ancient mugilis , our gray mullet—and the sea-pike, Lucedimare , whose teeth and size might well constitute him lieutenant to the dog-fish,—all these came to table during our stay; but we did not meet with one very superior fish known to the ancients as the Lupus , ( labrax of the Greeks,) which abounds when in season, and is known in every comfortable ménage along the Sicilian coast; his Linnæan name is sparus .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

Religious dissensions would combine to make frontier society as it formed early in the eighteenth century more and more democratic, dissatisfied with the existing order, and less respectful of authority.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner