They only observed to the assembly, that, "as Greece in general was under an obligation to the Romans for their kindness in restoring its liberty, so was their state in particular.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

But, in law as well as in fact, the University of 1808 still subsists; it has kept its rights, it levies its taxes, it exercises its jurisdiction and enjoys its monopoly.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

" Chorley, whose warmth of admiration is always tempered by accurate art-knowledge and the keenest insight, recurs in later years to Pas-ta's Medea in these eloquent words: "The air of quiet concentrated vengeance, seeming to fill every fiber of her frame—as though deadly poison were flowing through her veins—with which she stood alone wrapped in her scarlet mantle, as the bridal procession of Jason and Creusa swept by, is never to be forgotten.
— from Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

It is only indifference that kills; in religion, in love, in politics, in literature, in everything.
— from English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell

In Herculaneum, where the flood was of a different and a heavier kind, it rolled in, like a sea.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

“Then you know its reputation,” I laughingly suggested.
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

That you work for me daily and always, I know; in return I live almost entirely with you, and from my place of abode here I am always absent.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

some singular physiological peculiarities in the June-leafing variety, which produces its leaves and flowers four or five weeks later than the common varieties; and although in August it is apparently in exactly the same state of forwardness as the other kinds, it retains its leaves and fruit much later in the autumn.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

131 M. Cardan has minutely described 132 some singular physiological peculiarities in the June-leafing variety, which produces its leaves and flowers four or five weeks later than the common varieties; and although in August it is apparently in exactly the same state of forwardness as the other kinds, it retains its leaves and fruit much later in the autumn.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin