Either renew the fight Or tear the lions out of England's coat; Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead: Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf, Or horse or oxen from the leopard, As you fly from your oft subdued slaves.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For this reason it often happens that servants, and even the children of the house or other frequenters, take the robbery as an opportunity for explaining the disappearance of things they are responsible for or steal afresh and blame it upon “the thief.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Started by Lousteau into undertaking Liberal journalism, Lucien de Rubempre passed over suddenly to the Royalist side, founding the "Reveil," an extremely partisan organ, with the hope of obtaining from the King the right to adopt the name of his mother.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

And when the sleep has overset our frame, The mind's intelligence is now awake, Still for no other reason, save that these— The self-same films as when we are awake— Assail our minds, to such degree indeed That we do seem to see for sure the man Whom, void of life, now death and earth have gained Dominion over.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Even if the singer is audible, such unequal struggles between voice and orchestra are most inartistic, and the composer should reserve his orchestral outbursts for the intervals during which the voice is silent, distributing the singer's phrases and pauses in a free and natural manner, according to the sense of the words.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Lord Chesterfield is said to have once offered for the Head fifty guineas.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

‘Don’t you see?’ Mr. Mantalini, who, in his eagerness to make up matters with his wife, had overlooked, or feigned to overlook, Miss Nickleby hitherto, took the hint, and laying his finger on his lip, sunk his voice still lower.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A king is so far from furnishing his subjects with their subsistence that he gets his own only from them; and, according to Rabelais, kings do not live on nothing.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not simply that it has become much more spacious, it is not only that it has opened out from the little history of a few thousand years to a stupendous vista of ages, but, in addition to its expanded dimensions, it has experienced a change in character.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It will be seen from the foregoing that the diameters of the three orders are respectively one-eighth, one-ninth and one-tenth the heights of the columns, and that the entablature is, in the Doric, two diameters high or one fourth the height of the column; in the Corinthian also two diameters or one-fifth the height of the column.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

And now, in act to go, that company Behind them hear the stony road resound With a long trample, when those warlike three Look down the vale and roll their eyes around; And they from thence, a stone's-throw distant, see A troop, which through a narrow pathway wound: A score they are perhaps in number, who On horseback, or on foot, their way pursue.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

A false and foolish notion in the western world has been, tacitly to accept the Greeks and Hebrews of old for the two fountains of all culture since; the one in secular matter, the other in religion and morality.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Aristophanes has long since described the impression it makes on strangers,[*]—sailors clamoring for pay, rations being served out, figureheads being burnished, men trafficking for corn, for onions, for leeks, for figs,—"wreaths, anchovies, flute girls, blackened eyes, the hammering of oars from the dock yards, the fitting of rowlocks, boatswains' pipes, fifes, and whistling.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

Owing to his disregard of Napoleon's musical opinions, Cherubini found himself out of favor throughout the First Empire in France.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

Nine of the other ways have similarly two figures in the integral part of the number, but the eleventh expression has only one figure there.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Thrown back by what her younger sister had said, but still determined to proceed, without giving the true reason, she bethought herself of one, false though plausible.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

Men determined on death prefer it at the hands of others, for the reason that the soul which Plato giveth us is rebellious at the thought of self-destruction; that is all.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace