For just as lice leave dying persons, and abandon bodies when the blood on which they feed is drying up, so one never yet saw flatterers dancing attendance on dry and cold poverty, but they fasten on wealth and position and there get fat, but speedily decamp if reverses come.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He was pressing forward to further advantages, when the fifth infantry division under Sir Thomas Picton and the Duke of Brunswick's corps appeared upon the scene.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

The future of Tajikistan's economy and the potential for attracting foreign investment depend upon stability and continued progress in the peace process.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To give them in full I deemed undesirable, so much of similar subject-matter from the pen of my father having already been made public, notably in the “Life of Moscheles,” edited by my mother.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Each detail of Jordan or Lebanon is impressed centuries too deep for its deletion under snow or dissolution under fire.
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

It was long before the King of Prussia found out that his ambassador had joined in the plots against him, and Lucchesini did not fall into disgrace until some years later.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat