About two o'clock when everything was quiet, and even Fyodor Pavlovitch had gone to bed, Ivan had got into bed, firmly resolved to fall asleep at once, as he felt fearfully exhausted.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every cloth she wears, every fashion pleaseth him above measure; her hand, O quales digitos, quos habet illa manus!
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But in Plato this feeling has no expression; he nowhere says that beauty is the object of art; he seems to deny that wisdom can take an external form (Phaedrus); he does not distinguish the fine from the mechanical arts.
— from The Republic by Plato

How Edwin received letters of exhortation from Pope Honorius, who also sent the pall to Paulinus.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

“You are quite right, dearest, but what do you intend to do if your husband finds that the door has been opened by someone else, for possibly he expects you to be a maid.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thus the first of these legends, in order of time, relates that the Stone of Foundation was possessed by Adam while in the garden of Eden; that he used it as an altar, and so reverenced it, that, on his expulsion from Paradise, he carried it with him into the world in which he and his descendants were afterwards to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

hortâtus eram veritus eram secûtus eram partîtus eram F. P. hortâtus erô veritus erô secûtus erô partîtus erô Subjunctive Pres.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Aeneas Tacticus, Alcaeus a grammarian, Antiphanes of Berga, Antisthenes of Rhodes, Aratus of Sicyon, Archedicus, Aristotle, Callisthenes, Demetrius of Phalerum, Demosthenes, Dicaearchus, Echecrates, Ephorus of Cumae, Epicharmus of Cos, Eratosthenes, Eudoxus, Euemerus, Euripides, Fabius Pictor, Hesiod, Homer, Philinus, Phylarchus, Pindar, Plato, Pytheas, Simonides of Ceos, Stasinus, Strabo, Theophrastus of Lesbos, Theopompus of Chios, Thucydides, Timaeus, Xenophon, Zaleucus, Zeno of Rhodes.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He is solitary; like our first parents expelled from Paradise, he looks back towards the scene he has quitted.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

By depriving sects of their material heaven and hell,—upon which in positive and negative entrance fee priestcraft has issued policies of insurance for the soul of instinct from time out of date,—you will lay an eternal embargo upon their selfish schemes of praying premiums.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Now he took out his electric flash, placed his automatic within easy reach on the bed, then gingerly ran his fingers over the area specified by Doctor Tagala.
— from The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon

If, as we find recounted elsewhere, Luther, on his journey to the Diet, and at Worms itself, partook freely of the costly wines in which his enthusiastic friends pledged him, this was, after all, no great crime.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

R EASONS FOR P HILOSOPHIZING .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

With this country also holiday rides and excursions from Peebles had made him familiar as a boy: and on the whole it is this which best answers the geographical indications of the story.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The idea of eschewing funereal pomp had not yet arisen.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

Oh, could my Muse, by some exalted flight, Portray her knowledge of Eternal Right— Breathe in soft accents to the listening ear The melting music which my soul can hear, Some would declare my reason half dethroned Before my fancy to such heights had flown; Yet could such see as I have seen the scroll Where God has written "Destiny of Soul," They much would wonder how my Muse Could dare suppress such glorious news.
— from Prison Poetry by Hiram Peck McKnight

I should encounter few perils, have few sorrows, fewer disappointments, and want for nothing,—nothing, indeed, but temptation to exert myself, or prove my own manhood in its strength, or enjoy the luxury of risking the precious breath of life, which is so little worth, and which is so easily knocked away.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

V And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

They called him “il barbone,” and, although it was declared that on his exit from prison he should be shaved, they could not tranquillise their mighty minds, but banished him.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.