On the third day, her temptations having twice failed, the lady offers Gawain a ring, which he refuses; but when she offers a magic green girdle that will preserve the wearer from death, Gawain, who remembers the giant's ax so soon to fall on his neck, accepts the girdle as a "jewel for the jeopardy" and promises the lady to keep the gift secret.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It is certain, that no affection of the human mind has both a sufficient force, and a proper direction to counterbalance the love of gain, and render men fit members of society, by making them abstain from the possessions of others.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

END OF THE LIVES OF GRAMMARIANS AND RHETORICIANS.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He seemed to live for nothing but his religion; but there were some who said (notably the blacksmith, who was a Presbyterian) that it was a love of Gothic architecture rather than of God, and that his haunting of the church like a ghost was only another and purer turn of the almost morbid thirst for beauty which sent his brother raging after women and wine.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Indeed, the list of glorified animals reminds us somewhat of the ancient beast-worship of Egypt.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

"Economizing" with corn, which cost only the labor of gathering and roasting!
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

3 The introduction of Christianity into the North brought with it the influence of the Classical races, and this eventually supplanted the native genius, so that the alien mythology and literature of Greece and Rome have formed an increasing part of the mental equipment of the northern peoples in proportion as the native literature and tradition have been neglected.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

After some days, Melisso took leave of Giosefo and returning to his own house, told one, who was a man of understanding, the answer he had had from Solomon; whereupon quoth the other, 'He could have given thee no truer nor better counsel.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Thaddeus looked on gaily and rubbed his hands.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Legends of Greece and Rome.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The last Lecture (II) was allotted to an investigation into the origin and character of a species of poetry, the least influenced of any by the literature of Greece and Rome, ­ that in which the portion contributed by the Gothic conquerors, the predilections and general tone or habit of thought and feeling, brought by our remote ancestors with them from the forests of Germany, or the deep dells and rocky mountains of Norway, are the most prominent.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

( He fumbles in his pockets and produces in rapid succession a golf ball, a baseball pass, a G string, a large lump of gold, a receipted bill, two theater tickets and a white mass of sticky confection which looks as though it might be a combination of honey and something—milk, perhaps )—I've gone and left that card case again, but I'm Death, all right.
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

Had he who lay there, the father, taken up all this load of guilt and remorse for love of him, the son?
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

[xii], 7-2/3 × 5-¼, ff. 344 (28), from the library of Mr. Lammens of Ghent, a rough specimen, contains the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, the Pauline preceding the Catholic.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

If they do, you may be sure that they obey the laws of gravity and run downwards.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

If the vail was rent today and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible—I say were you to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves, in all the person, image and very form as a man, for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from and walked and talked, and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another.
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

In their attempt to solve this problem people turned their attention to the ancient literature of Greece and Rome; for it was believed that the ancient Greeks and Romans had a fine appreciation of the meaning and beauty of life.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History by Ontario. Department of Education

—— Lives of George and Robert Stephenson.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

No shame, no guilt, no confusion—nothing but that look of grief and regret.
— from Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming