Everything was similar: the ladies’ subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and the tea cakes; only one thing was lacking that he had always seen at the evening parties he wished to imitate.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

God has placed me in this elevated post; his providence will guard and support me.
— 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

Or, in cases where the law which unites or separates the events can not be discovered, it may consist in the very cautious interpretation of the combination of events on the principle simul cum hoc non est propter hoc .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Arrived, to form along the appointed strand For each a bed, she scoops the hilly sand; Then, from her azure cave the finny spoils Of four vast Phocae takes, to veil her wiles; Beneath the finny spoils extended prone, Hard toil!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

By this speech he easily persuaded his officers to make an attempt upon Tyre.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It is a great book of puzzles, whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Among the old relics that were irreparably lost, Tacitus enumerates the temple of the moon of Servius Tullius; the fane and altar consecrated by Evander præsenti Herculi; the temple of Jupiter Stator, a vow of Romulus; the palace of Numa; the temple of Vesta cum Penatibus populi Romani.
— 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

No; for those ages find utterance in the sea's unchanging voice, and warn the listener to withdraw his interest from mortal vicissitudes and let the infinite idea of eternity pervade his soul.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

die höchste Belohnung; der erste Preis highest award die ICC Landesgruppen the ICC national committees die ihnen hiermit gegeben wird hereby assigned to them die im Vertrag genannte
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

During the Discourse, upon every Puncture he felt from his Distemper, he smiled and cried out, Pain, Pain, be as impertinent and troublesome as you please, I shall never own that thou art an Evil.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

So peaceful was this eyrie, perched high up above the clamor and rattle of civilization, that every nerve in her body seemed to relax in a delicious content.
— from The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The glances of the passers-by towards the contents bill of the evening papers had in them a certain furtive eagerness, the fear of evil news triumphing now over the sanguine optimism of earlier days.
— from Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Meanwhile the trumpets blared more loudly, and the tom-toms were struck with treble force, then all ceased at once, and there was a silence deep as death, as everyone prostrated himself or herself before the newly-made young queen.
— from In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land by Gordon Stables

61 'Fuit enim quidam summo ingenio vir, Zeno, cuius inventorum aemuli Stoici nominantur: huius sententia et praecepta huiusmodi: sapientem gratia nunquam moveri, nunquam cuiusquam delicto ignoscere; neminem misericordem esse nisi stultum et levem: viri non esse neque exorari neque placari: solos sapientes esse, si distortissimi sint, formosos, si mendicissimi, divites, si servitutem serviant reges.'
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

"We will begin at sunrise," he said; "work every possible hour, and start back for England whenever the yield falls off.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

"The need is bad enough here in town, where every employer provides his people with their daily bread."
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Only one rookery of Emperor penguins had been found at this date, and this was on the sea-ice inside a little bay of the Barrier edge at Cape Crozier, which was guarded by miles of some of the biggest pressure in the Antarctic.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I pity him profoundly, but I also despise him, for there is a want of metal in him which will ever prevent him from being truly royal."
— from Calvert of Strathore by Abbe Carter Goodloe