On the next, passing by Lampsacus, he encamped near the river Practius, which flows from the Idaean mountains and discharges itself into the sea between the Hellespont and the Euxine Sea.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

[565] Nay, not even the earth itself do we call a creator, though she seems to be the prolific mother of all things which she aids in germinating and bursting forth from the seed, and which she keeps rooted in her own breast; for we likewise read, "God giveth it a body, as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed his own body."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

| Above all, they will use their best endeavours that every one shall be protected in the possession of his own property by the fair administration of the law and the courts, that the poorer classes shall not be oppressed because of their helplessness, and that envy shall not stand in the way of the rich, to prevent them from keeping or recovering possession of what justly belongs to them; they must strive, too, by whatever means they can, in peace or in war, to advance the state in power, in territory, and in revenues.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But seeing all the remedies a man can apply to such a disease, are full of unquietness and uncertainty, ‘tis better with a manly courage to prepare one’s self for the worst that can happen, and to extract some consolation from this, that we are not certain the thing we fear will ever come to pass.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He then proceeded, with his usual calm gait, to the stable and went into the very midst of the soldiery, who, foreigner as he was, could not help admiring his height and the enormous strength of his great limbs.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

mon Dieu, I hear her!” She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, and began to listen with rapture.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The shades of night soon overspread the hemisphere, and the earth seemed to gasp after the hovering moisture.
— from The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam by John Frost

Even after this plan had failed, Jefferson did not give up his ambition to establish somewhere in America and preferably [Pg 506] in Virginia, an institution of higher learning.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

For a man's greatness lies not in wealth and station, as the vulgar believe, nor yet in his intellectual capacity, which is often associated with the meanest moral character, the most abject servility to those in high places, and arrogance to the poor and lowly; but a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.
— from Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

“And I shall be a faithful squire by your side, and sharpen the bolts which you are going to hurl at the enemy,” said Marianne, with fervent enthusiasm.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

With the first stroke of twelve a great noise arose over the silent heath, and the earth seemed to rock under the feet of the two watchers.
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

After being passed six times round the picking-up drum it was led into the hold, and the Elba slowly forged ahead, hauling in the cable from the bottom as she proceeded.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

The whole expense of the war was thrown for the time upon their hands, and the English soldiers seemed only a few thousand starving, naked, dying vagrants, an incumbrance instead of an aid.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Cicero, for example, who had attended the Epicurean school at Athens, and became himself an Academic, intrusted his son to the care of Cratippus, a peripatetic philosopher.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop