Advancing from Doberus, the Thracian host first invaded what had been once Philip's government, and took Idomene by assault, Gortynia, Atalanta, and some other places by negotiation, these last coming over for love of Philip's son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Her mother, with her hair in a single plait and a timid smile on her face, looked older, plainer, smaller on that stormy night.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I shall plough my fields like other people, sow seed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In my opinion, the best arrangement would be that by which women, whether widows or daughters, should never receive anything beyond the interest for life on property secured by mortgage, and in no case the property itself, or the capital, except where all male descendants fail.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I desire may be disposed of as followeth: “Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He has not the first lesson of political society still to acquire.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

One of the first ladies of Petersburg society whom Vronsky saw was his cousin Betsy.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The discovery of gold in California led him to establish a passenger line by way of Lake Nicaragua which netted him ten millions in ten years; he established a fast line of passenger steamships between New York and Havre; and finally was attracted to railway development as a field of enterprise destined to win large returns.
— from American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The excitement of an unexpectedly great occasion was a subtle stimulant to her disposition, and I could see that sometimes when Mrs. Todd had seemed limited and heavily domestic, she had simply grown sluggish for lack of proper surroundings.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Emeline always had a pair or more of silk stockings soaking in a little bowl of cold suds in the bedroom, and occasionally carried a waist or a lace petticoat to the little French laundress on Powell Street, and drove a sharp bargain with her.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

During that time, God told him to speak to the Israelites, asking them to give gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, fine linen, oil, precious stones, and other things, to make a tabernacle or sanctuary, where God would dwell among them.
— from Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children by Anonymous

While Juliette was discoursing of the scenes they would travel through, both Helene and Henri, indeed, indulged in the dream that they were already strolling through a fairy land of perennial spring, and each told the other with a look that their passion would reign there, aye, wheresoever they might breathe the same air.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola