Make battery to our ears with the loud music, The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing; The holding every man shall bear as loud As his strong sides can volley.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And every man should be agreeable to this square, when perfectly finished."
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

When they, in the discharge of their by no means popular office, had given offence to the commons by assigning to the allies the land which the Roman people had decided to be their own, and were not even much supported by the patricians, because they had not deferred in any way to the influence of any one, a day having been appointed for them by the tribunes to appear before the people, they escaped all vexatious annoyance by enrolling themselves as settlers and remaining in the colony, which they now had as a testimony of their integrity and justice.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Will the licence of the time excuse my sacrilegious boldness if I censure the dialogism of Plato himself as also dull and heavy, too much stifling the matter, and lament so much time lost by a man, who had so many better things to say, in so many long and needless preliminary interlocutions?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Every man should be his own doctor and lawyer.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The consequences of the fight were even more striking: Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, and all Flanders and Hainault fell into Marlborough's hands.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Apropos of this superiority, we find another poem which illustrates it even more strongly, because so very many women have fluttered about the same thought.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The bulk of the medical practitioners concerned, however, had not only no knowledge of military duty, but certainly no conception whatever of military organisation and discipline; and what was still more serious, no real and adequate realisation of the extraordinary part [5] that can be played in war by an efficient medical service by prophylaxis.
— from The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt An Illustrated and Detailed Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical Units in Egypt in 1914-1915 by P. E. (Percival Edgar) Deane

"What's the trouble?" he demanded, and it was plain to see that he did not relish having his early morning sleep broken.
— from True to Himself; Or, Roger Strong's Struggle for Place by Edward Stratemeyer

At whatever [265] time these eighty miles shall be constructed, and proper lines of steamers established in connection with them, there will be a gain of fully four, if not five days over the existing Red Sea Route.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

But Scott and Dumas were born story-tellers; narrative was the essence of their genius at its best; the current of romance rolls fleetly on, bearing with it persons and events, mirroring scenes, but never ceasing to be the main thing—the central interest.
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

The padre confessed her this morning and now she says he told her that she must tell Emerson Mead something before she dies.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly