EUTHYPHRO: Nay, Socrates, I shall still say that you are the Daedalus who sets arguments in motion; not I, certainly, but you make them move or go round, for they would never have stirred, as far as I am concerned.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

My cousins (though twice baffled in their expectation) did not, however, desist from persecuting me, who had now enraged them beyond a possibility of forgiveness by detecting their malice and preventing its effects: neither should I have found them more humane, had I patiently submitted to their rancour, and borne without murmuring the rigour of their unreasonable hate; for I have found by experience, that though small favours may be acknowledged and slight injuries atoned, there is no wretch so ungrateful as he whom you have most generously obliged, and no enemy so implacable as those who have done you the greatest wrong.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The form of christening was perhaps even more ludicrous than the satirist had conceived; but strangely enough, nobody saw it and nobody laughed.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

The pride which his first question had excited, now subsided into delight and gratitude; and I instantly related to him, as well as I could, the accident which had occasioned my joining the unhappy women with whom he had met me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The instrument consists of two pipes united together by one outlet so that we can inject by both at one time, for to inject each nostril separately is a thing which could not be borne.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

2. Be it further enacted, that, on the admission of every new state into the union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July succeeding such admission.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

quamquam , etsī , tametsī , though , and nisi , but , are sometimes used to coordinate a new period, correcting the preceding: as, carēre sentientis est, nec sēnsus in mortuō, nē carēre quidem igitur in mortuō est.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Every nobleman sees it!
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Old Janivere, in Chaucer, thought when he had his fair May he should never go to heaven, he should live so merrily here on earth; had I such a mistress, he protests, [5484] Caelum diis ego non suum inviderem, Sed sortem mihi dii meam inviderent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Dunno; ken turn in here, I spose,” said Sambo; “spects thar’s room for another thar; thar’s a pretty smart heap o’ niggers to each on ’em, now; sure, I dunno what I ’s to do with more.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In addition to the difficulty arising from the insufficient characters frequently given by Fabricius and the older authors, obstacles arising from their errors not seldom intervene.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

"—Ellis, new series, iii. 352.]
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

Some day of course, or even now somewhere in the larger life of the universe, different men's headaches may become confluent or be 'co-conscious.'
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

I can see them—even with my eyes not shut, I can see them bob—Please, Constance—” She turned to the stiff maid who had come in—“I want my grey coat and red-cherry hat.
— from Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee

[35] In England, politics so constantly mix themselves up with all our institutions, while science unfortunately finds so few disciples and patrons in the ranks of aristocracy, that every new society is viewed with jealousy and party spirit.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

"I hadna prayed for years," said Ezekiel Pollard, "till thou went to the Front, but every night sin' I have asked God to take care o' thee.
— from Tommy by Joseph Hocking

Herodotus of Halicarnassus, i. 47 , 56 , 69 , 97 , 148 , 152 , 430 , 462 , 517 ; ii. 155 , 190 , 241 , 273 , 275 , 277 , 280 , 290 , 298 , 328 , 393 , 403 , 405 ; iii. 35 , 82 . Heroopolis, city of Egypt, near Suez, i. 130 , 131 ; iii. 176 , 189 , 191 , 193 , 203 , 291 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo