Socrates, however, was that second spectator who did not comprehend and therefore did not esteem the Old Tragedy; in alliance with him Euripides ventured to be the herald of a new artistic activity.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Oculi his excavantur, venti gignuntur circum praecordia et acidi ructus, sicci fere ventres, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, somni pusilli, somnia terribilia et interrupta.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

--Pandora, the Eve of the Grecian mythology, was sent to earth with all the human ills and Hope in a box, whence all but Hope escaped.-- Vide Elton's Hesiod, Works and Days , I. 114, Bohn's edition, &c. VII .--THE
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

For he entertained very great hopes that, if he appeared suddenly and unexpectedly to the Syrians, while Antiochus was still lingering about Sardis, he would be able to stir up a great movement, and meet with a cordial reception from the people of Antioch, Coele-Syria, and Phoenicia.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I heard excited voices in the kitchen—grandmother’s was so shrill that I knew she must be almost beside herself.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

I don't,” he ended very low, as though uttering a threat, “recommend every man to-go-my-way.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

From 1603 to 1769 scarcely a ship had ever visited California, that wonderful country which, twenty-five years ago, with the exception of a few places on the coast, was an unknown wilderness, but which is now covered with flourishing and prosperous towns and cities, divided from sea to sea by a railway, and its capital already ranking among the world’s greatest seaports.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

I myself, when young, covered no small ground; I have been in Piotrkow and in Dubno, now following the court as a lawyer, now attending to my own affairs; I have even visited Warsaw.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

[85] cómo puede hacerse ese viaje.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

His eighth volume contains excellent matter, but the subjects are not always well chosen or varied judiciously, and one understands why the Spectator took a firmer hold upon society when the two friends in the full strength of their life, aged about forty, worked together and embraced between them a wide range of human thought and feeling.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She carried a double-barrelled breech-loader—rifle and shot cartridge—and there was a warrior flash in her eyes visible in the moonlight, which told that she meant to use it, too, if occasion required.
— from Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford

In these days taxi drivers made fifty francs a day in tips, and, as a Frenchman knows exactly what he wants and calculates to a nicety when he has enough, valuing rest and nutriment above even the delights of gouging foolish Americans, Alexina knew that it would be useless to argue and did not even waste energy in announcing her opinion of him for taking a fare under false pretenses.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Lord Holt concludes his whole argument by again repeating, that that college was a private corporation , and that the founder had a right to appoint a visitor, and to give him such power as he saw fit.[18] The learned Bishop Stillingfleet's argument in the same cause, as a member of the House of Lords, when it was there heard, exhibits very clearly the nature of colleges and similar corporations.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

From 1830 to 1840, a period of only ten years, the increase in the population of twenty of the largest cities in the United States, from New York to St. Louis inclusive, was fifty-five per cent, and this in face of the most disastrous commercial panic that had ever visited the country, and this marvelous rate of increase was fully maintained during the subsequent decade.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

[225] {180}[If the Pineta of Ravenna, bois funèbre , invited Byron "to religious meditation," the mental picture of the "spectre huntsman" pursuing his eternal vengeance on "the inexorable dame"—"that fatal she," who had mocked his woes—must have set in motion another train of thought.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He had paid a quiet court to the beautiful Charlotte K——, and family gossip said that he took her elopement very seriously;
— from The Locusts' Years by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

And E. Bosworth Smith, on reading the extravagant glorification given to Islam by Canon Isaac Taylor, whom he accuses of plagiarism and absurd exaggeration, has come to the stand as a witness against his extreme views.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

After his Example, various Writers upon the Art of Poetry in different Ages and Languages, have chose to dwell chiefly upon the Drama , and have left abundance of elaborate Treaties upon that Subject.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

On the sixth of July, 1908, he left New York City for his eighth voyage to the Arctic, on his latest ship, the Roosevelt —determined to reach the Pole or die in the attempt.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham