But Hieronymus, in the second book of his Miscellaneous Commentaries, says that Pericles produced him before the court, tottering and emaciated by disease, so that he was released rather out of pity, than by any deliberate decision on the merits of his case.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

No one has more carefully studied the contraction of each separate muscle, and the consequent furrows produced on the skin.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

We are all familiar with the Hudibrastic adage, that "A man convinced against his will, Is of the same opinion still," and he who is no longer actuated by that ardent esteem for the institution which would generate a wish to continue his membership, could scarcely have his slumbering zeal awakened, or his coldness warmed by the bolts and bars of a regulation that should keep him a reluctant prisoner within the walls from which he would gladly escape.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

'Hard-hearted, Mrs. Corney?' said Mr. Bumble, stirring his tea, and looking up into the matron's face; 'are you hard-hearted, Mrs. Corney?' 'Dear me!'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But as for the stories which some have fabricated out of this, about his being disinherited by his father, and about his mother committing suicide through grief at her son's disgrace, they seem to be untrue.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"Her mansion, called Sessrumnir, is large and magnificent; thence she sallies forth in a car drawn by two cats.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

HILL Mr. Charles Stanhope was the first person brought to account for his share in these transactions.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

In the same year, 1901, F.T. Holmes, formerly with the Potter-Parlin Co., joined the Huntley Manufacturing Co., Silver Creek, N.Y., which then began to build the Monitor direct-flame gas coffee roaster.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As we went home, Mary Cavendish spoke bitterly against the prosecuting counsel.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

A wild bush grows and hides my crypt; She picked my glove up while she stripped A branch off, then rejoined the rest With that; my glove lay in her breast: Then I drew breath; they disappeared: It was for Italy I feared.
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

But he must come soon if he would find his wife as he parted from her,—or the city where he left it.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

"He's cleared out South-aways some'eres, and his ma consaited she was dredful obleeged to ye; 'n I'm blessed if she didn't send an old Dutch feller up here fur to fetch ye that hoss fur a present.
— from The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

The young resemble the mother, but have more conspicuous spots upon their somewhat paler plumage.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Before his mother could stop him Buttercup was in the sack, and the old woman had closed the mouth of it, had swung it over her shoulder and was out of the house
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

Lancaster was founding a new system of education; Bentham and Ricardo were unravelling the tangled web of political economy; Hallam, Lingard, Mitford, Mills, were writing history; Macaulay, Carlyle, Smith, Lockhart, Jeffrey, Hazlitt, were giving a new stimulus to periodical literature; while Miss Edgeworth, Jane Porter, Mrs. Hemans, were entering the field of literature as critics, poets, and novelists, instead of putting their inspired thoughts into letters, as bright women did one hundred years before.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord

I was employed in plucking some birds which I had killed in the evening, when I heard my companion shouting lustily for help, and at the same time, a loud crashing of boughs reached my ears, while the ox came hurrying up to the camp in evident alarm.
— from Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston