376 -398), but Glaucon breaks in with a slight jest, and carries on the conversation in a lighter tone about music and gymnastic to the end of the book.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

This difficulty also may be solved upon the same principle; and here too they may be right, for the power is not in the man who is member of the assembly, or council, but the assembly itself, and the council, and the people, of which each individual of the whole community are the parts, I mean as senator, adviser, or judge; for which reason it is very right, that the many should have the greatest powers in their own hands; for the people, the council, and the judges are composed of them, and the property of all these collectively is more than the property of any person or a few who fill the great offices of the state: and thus I determine these points.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

She clapped her hands with joy, and cried, "Oh, there's the Wicket Gate, And I must seek admittance there, Before it is too late."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The Jews also cut off the rest of that cloister from the temple, after they had destroyed those that got up to it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The Federal judges are conscious of the relative weakness of the power in whose name they act, and they are more inclined to abandon a right of jurisdiction in cases where it is justly their own than to assert a privilege to which they have no legal claim.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

After the revolution of eleven centuries, the Jews and Christians of the Turkish empire enjoy the liberty of conscience which was granted by the Arabian caliphs.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And we do hereby further declare, that in Case any Person or Persons, on, or after, the 6 th Day of September 1718 , shall discover or seize, or cause or procure to be discovered or seized, any one or more of the said Pyrates, so refusing or neglecting to surrender themselves as aforesaid, so as they may be brought to Justice, and convicted of the said Offence, such Person or Persons, so making such Discovery or Seizure, or causing or procuring such Discovery or Seizure to be made, shall have and receive as a Reward for the same, viz.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The latter were supported by the elderly ladies, wives jealous and careful of their husbands’ love, and by those who were engaged, while those who were free and those who were beautiful declared themselves enthusiastic operettists.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The testimony of Aubrey Lee Lewis was taken at 11:30 a.m., on July 14, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Leon D. Hubert, Jr., assistant counsel of the President's Commission.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Nor does this appear impossible, because at that time it was considered to be a thing of the most precious and rare description, so that when Frederick Barbarossa returned from his coronation at Rome, and was passing through Arezzo many years after its completion, he praised and admired it infinitely, and indeed with good cause, since the joints are constructed of tiny pieces so excellently welded together, that to an inexperienced eye, the whole work seems to be made in one piece.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

It was only with difficulty that he could keep in touch with the Polish division, which lay in and about Malaga, or with the garrisons of Jaen and Cordova on the other side.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Chronicles by Anonymous

"Huh! Just a case of too much lunch, eh?" said the officer.
— from A Little Book of Christmas by John Kendrick Bangs

No, don’t you remember, the truth came out suddenly through the very man who was keeping it back: Germineaux, the ex-minister of justice, a cousin of the chairman of the Canal Company.
— from The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc

A detective's ambition is to be, considered capable of jumping at conclusions, only the conclusions must always prove to be correct ones.
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

He pulled his cap on hard, turned off the gas jet, and climbed over the grating.
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

This word elder was a title of honor, and we have it still both in alderman , and in what is originally the same, the English [pg 227] Earl , the Norse Jarl , a corruption of the A.-S. ealdor .
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The Jews and Christians of this city did homage to the spirit of free thought.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz