Xenophon took the money and bought for the goddess a plot of ground at a point indicated to him by the oracle.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

If he gave away a part to any body else, so that it perished not uselesly in his possession, these he also made use of.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

But it is not the fashion of lovers to be accoutred in such dangling vestments, so as to have their shirts flagging down over their knees, without breeches, and with a long robe of a dark brown mingled hue, which is a colour never used in Talarian garments amongst any persons of honour, quality, or virtue.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

H2 anchor III After listening to these proposals, they gave and accepted pledges of good faith; and so the deputation rode off.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

—¿No sabía Ud. que gracias al Amazonas, pueden entrar a la ciudad peruana de Iquitos los vapores del Atlántico?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Gifford adds a passage from Heywood’s Apology for Actors , 1612, which is more to the point: ‘Plays have taught the unlearned the knowledge of many famous histories , instructed such as cannot read in the discovery of our English Chronicles : and what man have you now of that weake capacity that being possest of their true use, cannot discourse of any no
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

“Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his wife.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I have an Indian muslin gown and a pearl necklace for you p. 241 somewhere in my chest at Portsmouth.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

[ The famous Gentile Bellino, whom he had invited from Venice, was dismissed with a chain and collar of gold, and a purse of 3000 ducats.
— 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

[pg.53] was even suspected of a leaning towards French methods of Government; and a Prussian statesman said to the French ambassador: "You have only the nobles against you: the King and the people are openly for France.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

They turned on the friends of colonization, and confidently demanded: "Why take black men from a civilized and Christian country, where their labor is a source of immense gain, and a power to control the markets of the world, and send them to a land of ignorance, idolatry, and indolence, which was the home of their forefathers, but not theirs?
— from Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America by George Bancroft

By reason of it the writer has gained an assured place among playwrights who seek to give literary as well as dramatic worth to their plays.
— from A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice

"We've got an apple pudding to-day.
— from Jack's Ward; Or, The Boy Guardian by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The wife may toil unceasingly; but the labor which she "performs in the household is given as a part of her functional duty, not as employment."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The obvious conclusion is that one theory is as good as another, provided always that the mode of operation under it does not depart, in any essential particular, from the standard, and that the operator has the requisite faith in his own theory and practice.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

All glittered green, and all possessed the extraordinary hanging caps that characterised the Lichstorm range.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

We will thank you to look upon this intelligence as private, and must request you to guard against any portion of it being reprinted.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

73 ― The coarseness of the age, and the strong temptation which he was under to gratify a voluptuous prince, will not excuse the gross indelicacies of Lindsay; and still less will the desire of preserving the ancient dialect of Scotland, and of gratifying an antiquarian passion, apologise for giving to the modern public a complete edition of his works, accompanied with a glossary and explanatory notes.
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie

Sometimes, when I am with Sarah's girls at a play like Sudermann's "John the Baptist," as the curtain rises and falls upon the great scenes I sit and think of him and what it would have meant to him if in all those poverty-stricken years of his ministry he could have had such a vision of his dear Bible people at home in Judaea.
— from A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris