In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

All our new acquisitions together, at this time, scarce afford matter of revenue, either at home or abroad, sufficient to defray the expense of their establishments; not one shilling towards the reduction of our debt.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

To the part affected, I may here add the parties, which shall be more opportunely spoken of elsewhere, now only signified.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Otherwise the audience of the Cat and Fiddle, we mean the Temple of the Muses, were fain to be content with four Bohemian brothers, or an equal number of Swiss sisters.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

American Indians, p. 392) of a young “Anantooeah” (i. e., Nûndăwegĭ or Seneca) warrior taken by the Shawano.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The beautiful and regular form of that great city, second only to Rome itself, comprehended a circumference of fifteen miles; it was peopled by three hundred thousand free inhabitants, besides at least an equal number of slaves.
— 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

After wondering, as was only natural, and recovering at last from his stupefaction, he bethought him of his own affairs, and began walking to and fro, staring intently at the gates of a house with an endless number of storeys.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When the authenticity of all these documents is accepted, we must now pass to the evidence of their authors’ mission; we must know the laws of chance, and probability, to decide which prophecy cannot be fulfilled without a miracle; we must know the spirit of the original languages, to distinguish between prophecy and figures of speech; we must know what facts are in accordance with nature and what facts are not, so that we may say how far a clever man may deceive the eyes of the simple and may even astonish the learned; we must discover what are the characteristics of a prodigy and how its authenticity may be established, not only so far as to gain credence, but so that doubt may be deserving of punishment; we must compare the evidence for true and false miracles, and find sure tests to distinguish between them; lastly we must say why God chose as a witness to his words means which themselves require so much evidence on their behalf, as if he were playing with human credulity, and avoiding of set purpose the true means of persuasion.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I choose to carry on ( treiben ) earnest in jest, I shall be always myself ( immer derselbe bleiben ).
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Elizabeth, niece of Stephen, King of Poland, and wife of Count Nadasdy, of Hungary.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

III It has now become plain that our early reckoning of actions as either natural or spiritual was too simple and incomplete.
— from The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer

For all her versatility, she was not in appearance emotional; no one seemed less likely to be overcome by passion.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

It is not possible to make out in the present state of these drawings the exact number of strings upon the harps, but explorers agree that it must have been either five or seven.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

If the soil is not rich enough, nitrate of soda may be added.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

In the game the players take an equal number of sticks.
— from The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

Its life cycle is often given as typical for the entire group, but, as we have already emphasized, no one species can serve this purpose.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

Mr D—— was an Englishman who had married a Spanish lady; and at the time I mention, he had returned from England with his children—a son, and several daughters grown up—the latter with all the polish and accomplishments of Englishwomen engrafted on the enchanting naïveté of Spanish girls; and even at this distance of time I can remember their beautifully pliant and most graceful Spanish figures, as things that I can dream of still, but never expect again to see; while their clear olive complexions, large dark eyes, and coal-black ringlets, were charms, within gunshot of which no disengaged heart could venture, and hope to come off scatheless.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott