These are the words of Timæus; and he adds further, “But Heraclides is altogether a man fond of strange stories, and one who would assert that a man had fallen from the moon.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[That is a good phrase, I think, for one so young.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

An excellent talker, a voracious reader, a ready wit, an accomplished orator, with a clear mind and a powerful memory, he could never feel perfectly at ease whatever leg he stood on, but shifted, sometimes with painful strain of temper, from one sensitive muscle to another, uncertain whether to pose as an uncompromising Yankee; or a pure American; or a patriot in the still purer atmosphere of Irish, Germans, or Jews; or a scholar and historian of Harvard College.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

At a dinner of ten or twelve, the five or six ladies are apt to sit in one group, or possibly two sit by themselves, and three of four together, but at a very large dinner they inevitably fall into groups of four or five or so each.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Fifty Indians and Chinamen asleep in a big tent in the waist of the ship forward; they lie side by side with no space between; the former wrapped up, head and all, as in the Indian streets, the Chinamen uncovered; the lamp and things for opium smoking in the center.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

On the middle of the bridge lay the figure of Shrove Tuesday on a litter of leaves, surrounded by scores of maskers dancing, singing, and carrying torches.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This hath sometimes divers such like leaves as are before described, with so many branches or tops rising from one stalk, each divided from the other.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And just as in vessels that contain water the air is excluded, so with men that are full of solid merit their pride abates, and their estimate of themselves becomes a lower one, and they cease to plume themselves on a long beard and threadbare cloak, 278 and transfer their training to the mind, and are most severe and austere to themselves, while they are milder in their intercourse with everybody else; and they do not as before 130 eagerly snatch at the name and reputation of philosopher, nor do they write themselves down as such, but even if he were addressed by that title by anyone else, an ingenuous young man would say, smiling and blushing, "I am not a god: why do you liken me to the immortals?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by step until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that the one were what they no longer are, and the others are what they formerly were not.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Such a form of statement is termed an enthymeme.
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

Héerevpon were ambassadors sent from either king, vnto the pope, and a truce taken, to indure till the feast of saint Iohn Baptist in the yeare next following.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (11 of 12) Edward the Third, Who Came to the Crowne by the Resignation of His Father Edward the Second by Raphael Holinshed

For in their different ways both parents would have resented any appearance of treating the invitation as anything out of the common—Mr Morion, when by any chance such a subject as his now grown-up family’s isolation from ordinary social life came on the tapis, always speaking as if it were entirely a question of “choice” on his part; Lady Emma, though more practical, also taking for granted that only material difficulties as to ways and means were to be thanked for the exceptional state of things.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

The villagers were in despair; they did not dare to go into the fields, or scarcely to appear outside their doors.
— from The Humour and Pathos of Anglo-Indian Life Extracts from his brother's note-book, made by Dr. Ticklemore by J. E. Mayer

They were five or six minutes preparing, which were for me so many ages: at length, everything is adjusted, myself in a conspicuous situation, a fine roll of paper in my hand, gravely preparing to beat time.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This, as we know, was in the form of shares in a powder manufactory, and in the funds.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

When friction or self-firing matches came in they received the same designation.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

Lieutenant-Colonel Craig, with a force of seventy-five Nez Perce volunteers under Spotted Eagle, marched from Lapwai and joined Shaw’s command, also on the 9th, so that the three columns, starting from points as widely divergent as Puget Sound, the Dalles, and Lapwai, all met in the valley on the same day.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

But the general tenor of the education given is unchristian—an exaltation of reason above faith, of science above religion.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery

3. If the minister only baptized him into the name of the Father, or Son, or left out any essential part.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter