To take only the fifth letter, we find this passage: Doleo enim quando audio quosdam improbe et insolenter discurrere, et ad ineptian vel ad discordias vacare, Christi membra et jam Christum confessa per concubitus illicitos inquinari, nec a diaconis aut presbyteris regi posse, sed i
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It is reasonably to be expected that the public mind will be made more and more familiar with the idea of Jewish occupancy—which will be really a short step from the present degree of influence which the Jews exercise—of the highest office in the government.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Such a process carried to its logical conclusions must ultimately end in His own destruction, and thus we find the pope declaring that God was one day suffocated by His all-too-great pity.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On hearing this fact, the priest dropped the subject, though he would have done well to put into words his doubt whether, if Samsonov had sent him to that peasant, calling him Lyagavy, there was not something wrong about it and he was turning him into ridicule.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We find with some surprise (not unlike the feeling which Aristotle in a well-known passage describes the hearers of Plato's lectures as experiencing, when they went to a discourse on the idea of good, expecting to be instructed in moral truths, and received instead of them arithmetical and mathematical formulae) that Plato does not propose for his future legislators any study of finance or law or military tactics, but only of abstract mathematics, as a preparation for the still more abstract conception of good.
— from The Republic by Plato

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— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Let him alone for the present, do nothing to oppose or to offend him, until we shall arrive at Cannobeen, where we may examine into his faith and state at our leisure, and if we find that he still clings to his heresy, we then can do with him as circumstances may require.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

As for the Pictish Damsel, we have an easy Chair prepared at the upper End of the Table; which we doubt not
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND One of the first things Peter did next day was to measure Wendy and John and Michael for hollow trees.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

In a flash the priest divined, as he thought, the fate of Crabbe. "
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

The red and black may have slipt in from the preceding description.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Among the fugitives were groups of men from the poorest districts by the river, who were only restrained from snatching at the ornaments and caskets of the women by the presence of the soldiers, standing at short intervals along the street and at the doors of the principal houses.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He celebrated this occasion in the most practical manner possible: a stop was put to the indiscriminate massacre of the garrison, and five hundred of the Spaniards were captured alive; it was their dreary fate to pull down entirely the tower of Pedro Navarro, which they had defended so gallantly and to utilise the material in making a causeway from the Peñon to the shore.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

In the time of the Ommyades, you entered at once from the patio de los naranjeros into the Mosque itself, for the frightful wall which now breaks the perspective on this side, was not built until a more recent period.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

Then he flung the parlour door open, and announced with much importance, ‘Mr. Badger!’
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

From this arch falls the painted drop curtain, the subject of the picture thereon being the Feeding of the Five Thousand on the slopes of the Sea of Galilee.
— from The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. Charrington by Guy Thorne

But institutions are never much beyond the people—they can not be, for the people dilute everything until it is palatable.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

There was in the city a curious process of crystallisation of all the particles held in solution round the fire the previous day.
— from Fra Bartolommeo by Leader Scott

He could not sleep, and his brain, clear enough, retraced no passage from the past day.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts