Neither famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice; but light-heartedly they tend the fields which are all their care.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Well, for no definite end.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I will have certain ships sent out for new discoveries every year, [629] and some discreet men appointed to travel into all neighbouring kingdoms by land, which shall observe what artificial inventions and good laws are in other countries, customs, alterations, or aught else, concerning war or peace, which may tend to the common good.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Unerring to its goal it flew, No death ensued, no blood was dropped, But by the hush the young man knew At last that howling noise had stopped.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

Amongst other particular customs of our ancient Gauls, this, as Caesar reports,—[De Bello Gall., vi. r8.]—was one, that the sons never presented themselves before their fathers, nor durst ever appear in their company in public, till they began to bear arms; as if they would intimate by this, that it was also time for their fathers to receive them into their familiarity and acquaintance.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[Argument of the 12 Books of Statius' "Thebais"] Associat profugum Tideo primus Polimitem; Tidea legatum docet insidiasque secundus; Tercius Hemoniden canit et vates latitantes; Quartus habet reges ineuntes prelia septem; Mox furie Lenne quinto narratur et anguis; Archimori bustum sexto ludique leguntur; Dat Graios Thebes et vatem septimus vmbria; Octauo cecidit Tideus, spes, vita Pelasgia; Ypomedon nono moritur cum Parthonopeo; Fulmine percussus, decimo Capaneus superatur; Vndecimo sese perimunt per vulnera fratres; Argiuam flentem narrat duodenus et igneum.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

"Fear not, dearest!" exclaimed he.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

All on board feared that it could not be done, and every one—Phileas Fogg, no doubt, excepted—felt his heart beat with impatience.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

His seat on the fine parapet is in contrast with the [ 261 ] place assigned him in Eastern traditions—ruins and desert places,—but otherwise he fairly fulfilled, no doubt, early ideas in selecting his headquarters at Paris.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

feorhādl f. fatal disease , Æ. feorhbana m. man-slayer . feorhbealu † n. deadly evil, violent death .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I see people of my standing really good for nothing, decrepit, effete, la levre inferieure deja pendante, with what little life they have left mainly concentrated in their epigastrium.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His blue eyes seemed to say that “Love had passed that way,” so mournful were they; revealing memories about which he kept such utter silence that his old friends never detected even an allusion to his past life, nor a single exclamation drawn forth by similarity of circumstances.
— from Ursula by Honoré de Balzac

The knowledge of this fact no doubt encouraged the Scots to pursue their nefarious calling with a boldness and persistency, which, at first sight, appear somewhat extraordinary.
— from Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

He was astonished when he heard the barking of Frillikin, for no dogs ever came that way; and supposing that some travellers must have missed their road, he went out with the good-natured intention of putting them right.
— from Old-Time Stories by Charles Perrault

Praeclaras vero isti partes assignant gratiae, "quam neque infusam cordibus nostris, neque ad resistendum sceleribus validam esse latrant, sedextra nos in solo Dei favore[96] collocant: "qui favor non emendet impios, nec purget, nec illuminet, nec ditet; sed veterem illam sentinam adhuc manantem atque foetentem, ne deformis et odiosa putetur, Deo connivente, dissimulet.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

o' spittin' in 'is face 'n' damnin' ever'body 'n' the law, too.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

241 Asia de Joaõ de Barros, dos feitos que os Portuguezes fizeram no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

The love we bear to her is a feeling as noble as it is strong; it calls for no degrading expressions of adulation, but it inspires us with unremitting zeal for moral improvement.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte