This is a very dear description of this building, and borrowed from a very good hand; and yet me-thinks it does not give us sufficient light into the difficulty of this architecture.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

King Magnus got under sail later in the day and came into the harbour just as King Harald had done pitching his tents.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This, by the way, may give us some light into the different state and growth of languages; which being suited only to the convenience of communication, are proportioned to the notions men have, and the commerce of thoughts familiar amongst them; and not to the reality or extent of things, nor to the various respects might be found among them; nor the different abstract considerations might be framed about them.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

And, that they might not be led astray, that the war, which it is now pretended has been given up, still lies in reserve, and that he would attack them when off their guard on [Pg 70] the occurrence of an opportunity.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The natives of Maryland and Virginia are therefore more disposed than they were thirty years ago, to give up slave labor in the cultivation of tobacco, or to give up slavery and tobacco at the same time.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[176] Origen, the most learned of the Fathers of the Church, adds in his turn: "If we had to limit ourselves to the letter, and understand after the fashion of the Jews or the people, what is written in the Law, I should be ashamed to proclaim aloud that it was God who gave us such laws; I should find more dignity and reason in human laws, as, for instance, in those of Athens, Rome, or Sparta...." ( Homil 7. in Levit. )
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

In the charming city of Brussels—his first stopping-place after leaving Paris—he asked a great many questions about the street-cars, and took extreme satisfaction in the reappearance of this familiar symbol of American civilization; but he was also greatly struck with the beautiful Gothic tower of the Hôtel de Ville, and wondered whether it would not be possible to “get up” something like it in San Francisco.
— from The American by Henry James

“I guess Uncle Starkweather lives in a little better place than that,” said Helen, after laughing with the old foreman.
— from The Girl from Sunset Ranch; Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe

A student of philosophy at one of the greatest German universities who led a promiscuous life like any other student, gave up such life immediately 406 after reading Tolstoy’s Kreutzer-Sonate.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Both she and Dot were indignant when he told them the little pig they admired so much would become a great ugly sow like its mother.
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Few persons can fail to have made the observation that if the tones of the human voice did not have a charm for us in themselves apart from the ideas they convey, conversation to a great extent would soon be given up, so little is the real intellectual interest of the topics with which it is chiefly concerned.
— from With The Eyes Shut 1898 by Edward Bellamy

Concealing the package in her gray ulster, she left it in the hall.
— from The Motor Maids' School Days by Katherine Stokes

Last week, as in due preparation For reading I sported my door, With surprise and no small indignation, I picked up this note on the floor— 'Dear E. we are coming to see you, 'So get us some lunch if you can; 'We shall take you to Grassy, as Jehu— 'Your affectionate friend, Mary Ann.' Affectionate friend!
— from Sagittulae, Random Verses by Edward Woodley Bowling