I was stationed at the weather cross-jack braces; three other light hands at the lee; one boy at the spanker-sheet and guy; a man and a boy at the main topsail, top-gallant, and royal braces; and all the rest of the crew—men and boys—tallied on to the main brace.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Sigurd was beheaded outside of Grafdal, and Markus and another man were hanged at Hvarfsnes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Cecidit illic ergo Boegsceg Rex, et Sidroc ille senex comes, et Sidroc Junior comes, et Obsbern comes,” etc.— Annales Rerum Gestarum AElfredi Magni, Auctore Asserio.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Also the melody of the Muses, the metallurgy of Hephaestus, the weaving of Athene, the empire of Zeus over gods and men, are all due to Love, who was the inventor of them.
— from Symposium by Plato

(In China, some American officers told the Chinese Communists that the Chinese Communists were wonderful people, and would be sure to get American material aid and political sympathy against Chiang Kai-shek.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The mighty-souled, who ne'er forget, Devoted sons, their filial debt, Win worlds where Gods and minstrels are, And Brahmá's sphere more glorious far.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Although he hated the Greeks as much as any Persian, yet he was so overpowered by the flatteries of Alkibiades, that he in his turn repaid him with compliments even more excessive.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He started therefore from his seat, and, advancing to the serjeant, swore he looked on himself to be as good a man as any in the army, and offered to box for a guinea.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Behold, your form is nothing but light!" I gazed at my arms and moved them back and forth, yet could not feel their weight.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Grave and manifold as are the problems confronting the struggling Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, none appear more significant nor seem more compelling in their urgency than the incredible sufferings borne so heroically by our down-trodden brethren of the East.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

But when peace comes it will leave us face to face with greed and materialism, and an industrial system in which some men prosper and others do not, and an obligation to labor from which no important fraction of mankind can escape, and wants will multiply as fast as the means of satisfying them increase, and for the greater part of us the weekly pay envelope and the possibilities of a competence, and the demand from the other side of the world for the grain we produce, will continue to be our principal incentives to work.
— from The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

Anybody you know got as 'many as a hundred' gold-pieces he wants to get rid of?" For a moment David, his delighted thoughts flying to the gold-pieces in the chimney cupboard of his room, was tempted to tell his secret.
— from Just David by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The only problematical element in this matter is the measure of our faith in God and man and all-prevailing truth.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various

"Ah!" said the boatswain, with an alarmed grunt, and made another attempt to release his arm.
— from Salthaven by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Not about one's children, unless they were good as mine are, and giving no cause of complaint.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

"An' he's got a monkey and a parrot!"
— from The Curlytops and Their Playmates; Or, Jolly Times Through the Holidays by Howard Roger Garis

37; Re. xxii. 17), is universal, and proves that the invitations of the gospel are made, and are to be made, not to a part only, but fully and freely to all men; for, although this originally had reference to the members of the church in Laodicea, yet the language chosen seems to have been of design so universal ( ἐάν τις ) as to be applicable to every human being; and anyone, of any age and in any land, would be authorized to apply this to himself, and, under the protection of this invitation, to come to the Saviour, and to plead this promise as one that fairly included himself.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

I ask him jocularly if he gets as much abused as I used to do for running down the bank; but the child’s perfect seriousness of answer staggers me—“O no, grandpapa doesn’t allow it—why should he?” I feel caught: I stand abashed at the reproof; I must not expose my childishness again to this youthful disciplinarian, and so I ask him very stately what he is going to be—a good serious practical question, out of delicacy for his parts.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

One of his officers recounted that, as they were charging over the grassy plain, he threw himself down before a murderous discharge of grape and canister, which mowed the grass and men all around him as though a scythe had been swung just above his prostrate form.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens