While Marcus Piso the lieutenant lived in our city, who was also appointed over the choice of the soldiers, he called us, and many other of the citizens, and gave order, that if there be here any Jews who are Roman citizens, no one is to give them any disturbance about going into the army, because Cornelius Lentulus, the consul, freed the Jews from going into the army, on account of the superstition they are under;—you are therefore obliged to submit to the praetor."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

John Ferrier groaned internally.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

If I had only known about this I should have known what to bring to Japan for gifts, instead of feeling as helpless as I did.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

With his javelins firmly grasped in his hands he galloped up—escorted by some of his faithful bodyguard, who were present—and was soon in the midst, exclaiming: "Clearchus, Proxenus, and you other Hellenes yonder, you know not what you do.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Sambo, who flung open the door and announced Mr. Joseph, followed grinning, in the Collector's rear, and bearing two handsome nosegays of flowers, which the monster had actually had the gallantry to purchase in Covent Garden Market that morning—they were not as big as the haystacks which ladies carry about with them now-a-days, in cones of filigree paper; but the young women were delighted with the gift, as Joseph presented one to each, with an exceedingly solemn bow.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the beginning of the last century a Jesuit found gold in a hill called Camante, in the Marcapata valley, situated between two ravines, in one of which, called Garrote, a Spanish company established gold-washings.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

“We want perhaps to be unhappy—perhaps sorry; but if God waited just for goodness, I don’t think He would get many prayers.”
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

But before I can influence his will a jot for God, I must first have won the victory in the secret place.
— from Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

Prince Bismarck banishing the Jesuits from Germany, is another turn in the same [272] direction.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

"A pound jist fer goin' in with that ape?
— from The Missing Link by Edward Dyson