But he first imprisoned them in a most loathsome jail, allowing them only grains for their food.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It will be bad for him when men he has injured, and at whom he has jeered, are thinking of getting hanged.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And so it is in everything: difficulty gives all things their estimation; the people of the march of Ancona more readily make their vows to St. James, and those of Galicia to Our Lady of Loreto; they make wonderful to-do at Liege about the baths of Lucca, and in Tuscany about those of Aspa: there are few Romans seen in the fencing school of Rome, which is full of French.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

There is not so great a disproportion between our justice and that of God, as between unity and infinity.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But just as the old Greek musical accent, after the beginning of our era, was transformed into a stress accent, so by the seventh century A.D. (and probably long before)
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error, Now take upon me, in the name of Time, To use my wings.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And yet—so be it, for it is over; I will force my soul into subjection as I needs must; I will go; I will pursue Hector who has slain him whom I loved so dearly, and will then abide my doom when it may please Jove and the other gods to send it.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Then after he had recounted his exploits in war, in pompous language suitable to the dignity of the subject, equalling his actions by his eloquence, he bared his breast marked with scars received in battle: and now and then, directing his eyes to the Capitol, he called down Jupiter and the other gods to aid him in his present lot; and he prayed, that the same sentiments with which they had inspired him when protecting the fortress of the Capitol, for the preservation of the Roman people, they would now inspire the Roman people with in his critical situation: and he entreated them singly and collectively, that they would form their judgment of him with their eyes fixed on the Capitol and citadel and their faces turned to the immortal gods.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I was exceedingly uneasy at the awkward appearance I supposed I should make to Johnson and the other gentlemen whom I had invited, not being able to receive them at home, and being obliged to order supper at the Mitre.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I had rather hear one of those grand elemental laughs from either of our two Georges, (fictitious names, Sir or Madam,) glisten to one of those old playbills of our College days, in which "Tom and Jerry" ("Thomas and Jeremiah," as the old Greek Professor was said to call it) was announced to be brought on the stage with whole force of the Faculty, read by our Frederick, (no such person, of course,) than say the best things I might by any chance find myself capable of saying.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But if, on the one hand, Philo stood firmly on Judæan ground, on the other he was no less imbued with the dogmas of the Grecian schools, which ran counter to the former, and he seems to have been equally swayed by the spirit of Judaism and that of Greece.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Ah, me! Here am I groaning just as the old Greek sighed Aï , aï !
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

" "Zacatas said that he and Jake and the others got safely to the Salado river section, but I knew that before, for that was where the fine shipment of animals came from.
— from Tom Swift in Captivity, Or, A Daring Escape By Airship by Victor Appleton

“No, but just as the open ground beside this stream will let us.
— from Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by George Manville Fenn

[222] Slipping on a skirt and a long ulster, Mary took her departure with Judith and the other girls, who did not have rooms at Queen’s, and pretty soon the party had disbanded.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

For example, the motive to use them in a worthy charity could never justify a theft of goods or money, nor could filial care of a helpless parent be in itself wrong, even should a bad motive inspire it.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

It was an omen, a condensed prophecy, the fulfilment of which stretched beyond its bearer to Him as whose precursor alone was John a token of God's grace.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

The fact is, the first disciples of Jesus, according to our Gospels, were mendicant monks, leading lives of asceticism and poverty.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

The road lay, as before, [Pg 205] through a jungle, and the occasional glimpses which we caught of the river through the clearances gave a picturesque effect to the scenery.
— from Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor