The bold Alcimedon now greets my eyes; No Greek like him the heavenly steeds restrains, Or holds their fury in suspended reins: Patroclus, while he lived, their rage could tame, But now Patroclus is an empty name!
— from The Iliad by Homer

When therefore it has exhibited the fundamental laws of its faculty completely and so definitely as to avoid all misunderstanding, there remains nothing for pure reason to cognise a priori , nay, there is even no ground to raise further questions.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Why not?” “Because there exists no greater rogue than he.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Nucingen's son-in-law—Eugene de Rastignac—perhaps recalled Madame de Restaud's misfortunes, and doubtless entertained no good feeling for the man who was responsible for them all.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

'Tis now enough; now glory spreads her charms, And beauteous Helen calls her chief to arms.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I had quite lost my inclination for little thieveries while with Madam de Warens; indeed, as everything belonged to me, there was nothing to steal; besides, the elevated notions I had imbibed ought to have rendered me in future above such meanness, and generally speaking they certainly did so; but this rather proceeded from my having learned to conquer temptations, than having succeeded in rooting out the propensity, and I should even now greatly dread stealing, as in my infancy, were I yet subject to the same inclinations.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Each new generation would simply have repeated its predecessors' existence.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

For though the group may not be immortal in the absolute sense of the word, still it is true that it endures longer than the individuals and that it is born and incarnated afresh in each new generation.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Tom White, therefore, became Serge Feodorovitch Davidoff, originally from Turkestan, and I became Evgeni Nestorovitch Genko, a Lett from Riga.
— from Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure. by Alan Bott

Internet users: 6.4 million (2001) Transportation Poland Railways: total: 23,420 km broad gauge: 646 km 1.524-m gauge standard gauge: 21,639 km 1.435-m gauge (11,626 km electrified) narrow gauge: 1,135 km various gauges including 1.000-m, 0.785-m, 0.750-m, and 0.600-m (2002) Highways: total: 364,656 km paved: 249,060 km (including 358 km of expressways) unpaved:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Mr. ——, who was rather an epicure, now glanced his eye over the board, and finding that that necessary appendage to a good supper, salt , was wanting, said, in an astonished tone, “Why, where’s the salt? ” when immediately the stranger and his feast vanished, and of all that splendid banquet nothing remained, save the mossy stone whereon it was spread.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Let earth give back the footprints that I wore, That the bare grass I spoiled may sprout again; And Echo, now grown deaf, my cries return!
— from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella; Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Evidently new guests had arrived since dinner.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

Cicero and Pompey one day surprised Lucullus at one of his ordinary banquets, when he expected no guests, and even that cost fifty thousand drachmas—about four thousand dollars.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Queene of darknesse, Thou supreme Lady of eternall night, Grant my petitions!
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

There have been many dates of inscriptions, and each new generation has unscrupulously run its lines over the pictures already made.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery