The Frank navigators imported from these countries, groceries, linen, Egyptian paper, pearls, perfumes, and a thousand other rare and choice articles.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Of all the Latin elegiac poets, Propertius has the justest claim to purity of thought and expression.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

“Because you are a humbug, sir; and thought fit to worry people for half an hour, and tried to frighten them into believing that you would shoot yourself with your little empty pistol, pirouetting about and playing at suicide!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For, except the banishment of Protagoras, and the death of Socrates, which last event proceeded partly from other motives, there are scarcely any instances to be met with, in ancient history, of this bigotted jealousy, with which the present age is so much infested.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

L 'ESPRIT PRÉCOCE Pic de la Mirandole, savant italien, se distingua par une précocité extraordinaire, en même temps que par la hardiesse de ses thèses en philosophie.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

With a last effort Peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Qui locutus est per prophetas.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Makes me almost in the prime of life, eh, Phipps? phipps .
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Ripton suggested that it was sudden; adding from his larger experience, people perhaps might talk.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

336 "Les Eglises Protestantes…", p. 31.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

[244] "Ich möchte namentlich darauf aufmerksam machen, dass diejenigen, welche den nächsten Anknüpfungspunkt für die Urbevölkerung Amerika's bei den Eskimo's suchen, welche ferner die Sprache und die Formen der Eskimo's nach Asien hinein verfolgen, leicht ein petitio principii machen dürften, insofern als es wohl sein könnte, dass sie ein späteres Phänomen für ein früheres halten.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

The doors were opened into the beautiful rooms and were left open, shades were lifted, sunshine streamed in where it had been long excluded, potted plants were set in jardinières, magazines were arranged in orderly rows on the library table, fires were laid and bells were tested.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

The Kabyles of Morocco are an ancient race; they have had sufficient time for reflection, and, moreover, every possible inducement for mere imitation; yet they have never imagined any other method for alleviating their wretched lot except petty piracy.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

Let us be just: when a man has long enjoyed place, power, and pre-eminence, dispensed honours and pensions and patronage, it is not a small trial to discover that one of those little creatures he has made—whose first scraper and brush he himself paid for—I can’t get rid of the sweep out of my head—will turn insolently on him and declare that he will no longer remain a subordinate, but go and set up for himself.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever