It is plain, from Murdoch's surprise, that her being out of her captors' sight is looked on as dangerous, from which we may infer that she is not entirely crazed.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The Worms—whether Semitic Leviathan or Aryan Dragon—are nearly fossilised as to their ancient form.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When Mr. Hooper had taken his farewell of Mr. Bullinger, and his friends in Zurich, he repaired again into England in the reign of king Edward the Sixth, and coming to London, used continually to preach, most times twice, or at least once a day.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In the fourth Christian century the Cynic mode of life was adopted by many, but the vast majority were illiterate men who imitated the Cynic shamelessness of manners but not the genuine discipline, the self-sufficiency (αὐτάρκεια) which had ennobled the lives of Antisthenes, Diogenes and Crates.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I think these considerations explain the remarkable absence from this play of any criticism of life or any definite moral judgment.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

If there are quarrels of long standing among them, no legislator of any degree of sense will proceed a step in the arrangement of the state until they are settled.
— from Laws by Plato

These holy men too built and planted as they did everything else for posterity: their churches were cathedrals; their schools colleges; their halls and libraries the muniment rooms of kingdoms; their woods and waters, their farms and gardens, were laid out and disposed on a scale and in a spirit that are now extinct: they made the country beautiful, and the people proud of their country.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Let none robe in mail his body that shall perish; let him last of all draw tight the woven steel; let the shields go behind the back; let us fight with bared breasts, and load all your arms with gold.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Note 23 ( return ) [ The Lala of the Turks (Cantemir, p. 34) and the Tata of the Greeks (Ducas, c. 35) are derived from the natural language of children; and it may be observed, that all such primitive words which deJnote their parents, are the simple repetition of one syllable, composed of a labial or a dental consonant and an open vowel, (Des Brosses, Méchanisme des Langues, tom. i. p. 231—247.)]
— 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

There it stood, so merciful in its provisions that it left open a door to reparation and repentance, and did not render it imperative that the birthright of the child should be irretrievably sacrificed on account of the error of the parents.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

He was a piper of the highest quality, and knew his business, which was to show himself for a short time and then trot on to the next screen and leap over and disappear just as if he were engaged in some mysterious business of his own.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The light of a distant Earth, struck slantingly across to leave this face of the pyramid in half-darkness.
— from Brood of the Dark Moon (A Sequel to "Dark Moon") by Charles Willard Diffin

Th' extint iv their schamin' is to break a lock on a dure or sweep a handful iv change fr'm a counter or dhrill a hole in a safe or administher th' strong short arm to a tired man takin' home his load.
— from Observations By Mr. Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne

Least of all did he think it was to be his daughter: ever careful of her, he bade her kindly to accompany him.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson

We have hastened, without loss of a day, to bring them plainly and truthfully before the public as a subject pertaining peculiarly to it.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

“His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo had,” he said, “given positive orders that the carriage was to remain at their lordships’ orders all day, and they could therefore dispose of it without fear of indiscretion.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Note 3240 ( return ) [ C. Rousset, "Les Volontaires," 144 (Letter of a district administrator of Moulins to General Custines, Jan. 27, 1793).—"Un séjour en France," p.27: "I am sorry to see that most the volunteers about to join the army are old men or very young boys.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Some are perpetually imagining themselves in love; others are dreaming over the philosophy of the affections, and wasting precious hours upon that which adds nothing to their happiness, and does little to prepare them for married life.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

If not so palpable, the value to boys of the knowledge of simple household duties is after all scarcely less important; for aptitude in these is perhaps the most efficacious weapon with which he can enter the lists of a determinately arduous life.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 693 April 7, 1877 by Various