Justly shall they lack the last rites; they are unworthy to be covered with a mound; let no funeral procession or pyre suffer them the holy honour of a barrow; let them be scattered to rot in the fields, to be consumed by the beaks of birds; let them taint the country all about with their deadly corruption.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

It is the universal testimony that he gave to his parents, in largest measure, honor, love, obedience; that he eagerly appropriated the first means which he could command to relieve the father from the debts contracted to educate his brother and himself; that he selected his first place of professional practice that he might soothe the coming on of his old age.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention, I opened it and found it to be the play-bill I had received from Joe, relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

It seems a wild idea that this prudent little man, the petty despot of his family, who was, above all things, a sharp man of business and a capitalist, and who was an official too (though he was a Fourierist), should long before have conceived the fantastic project of procuring this passport in case of emergency, that he might escape abroad by means of it if … he did admit the possibility of this if, though no doubt he was never able himself to formulate what this if might mean.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

M. and F. plūrēs or plūrīs , Ne. plūra .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The courts decide as we dictate, even in the most important cases in which are involved fundamental principles or political issues, viewing them in the light in which we present them to the Gentile administration through agents with whom we have apparently nothing in common, through newspaper opinion and other avenues.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer, 'Tis not the roundure of your old-fac'd walls Can hide you from our messengers of war, Though all these English and their discipline Were harbour'd in their rude circumference.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He was in the expeditions to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscript of his pastoral romance, the “Galatea,” and probably also, to judge by internal evidence, that of the first portion of “Persiles and Sigismunda.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

PROFESSOR SCENTS PORNOGRAPHY Unfortunately, 1601 has recently been tagged by Professor Edward Wagenknecht as “the most famous piece of pornography in American literature.”
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

When Paris was again to be girt round with hostile armies, honourable as well as political feelings might lead Napoleon to hope that the Representatives might be inclined to wave all personal animosity, and, having recourse to his extraordinary talents and his influence over the minds of the army and federates, by which alone the capital could be defended, might permit him once more to assume the sword for protection of Paris.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

Sleepy little Mérida, all a ruin, Knights Templars' castle as well as Roman theater and aqueduct, to the fellow paisano of Pizarro and Cortés, was finer than Paris.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

But in divers places where rich men dwelled some time in good tenements, there be now no houses at all, but hop-yards, and sheds for poles, or peradventure gardens, as we may see in Castle Hedingham, [77] and divers other places.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

[Pg 59] And where cross-roads met, and where the best adventures once had been, Whitewashed sign-posts bade him turn to Frogmore Pound, or Pogis Green.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

From the memoirs hereafter detailed, it may be seen that no fewer than six out of the twelve had to suffer the evils of exile for public or private opinions, of whom three so died unhappily in foreign countries.
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

As a girl, her fate had been that of girls in general; when she could write without orthographical errors, and could play by rote a few pieces of pianoforte music, her education had been pronounced completed.
— from Demos by George Gissing

He was far indeed from discerning the powers which later statesmen have shown to exist in a sound finance, powers of producing both national developement and international amity; but he had the sense to see, what no minister till then had seen, that the only help a statesman can give to industry or commerce is to remove all obstacles in the way of their natural growth, and that beyond this the best course he can take in presence of a great increase in national energy and national wealth is to look quietly on and to let it alone.
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

All the useful woods are to be found in the highest sub-kingdom of the plant world, the flowering plants or Phanerogamia of the botanist.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes

I just don't belong in this quarrel and I cannot kill for pleasure or profit.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne