For we do not in adverse circumstances need people to weep and wail with us like choruses in a tragedy, but people to speak plainly to us and instruct us, that grief and dejection of mind are in all cases useless and idle and senseless; and that where the circumstances themselves, when examined by the light of reason, enable a man to say to himself that his trouble is greater in fancy than in reality, it is quite ridiculous not to inquire of the body what it has suffered, nor of the mind if it is any the worse for what has happened, 379 but to employ external sympathizers to teach us what our grief is.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

After a victory, which he owed to his perfidy rather than his courage, Theodore Angelus entered the kingdom of Thessalonica, expelled the feeble Demetrius, the son of the marquis Boniface, erected his standard on the walls of Adrianople; and added, by his vanity, a third or a fourth name to the list of rival emperors.
— 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

Vauthier, landlady of a miserable boarding-house on Boulevard Montparnasse, and also to M. Bernard, lessee of real estate.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

[876-901] of Ilian race raise his Latin forefathers' hope so high; nor shall the land of Romulus ever boast of any fosterling like this.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

As soon as Castruccio reached the age of fourteen he began to take less notice of the chiding of Messer Antonio and Madonna Dianora and no longer to fear them; he left off reading ecclesiastical books, and turned to playing with arms, delighting in nothing so much as in learning their uses, and in running, leaping, and wrestling with other boys.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Survey is a masterpiece of topographical literature written by a Londoner of ripe experience, who was interested in everything that occurred around him.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Such individuals cannot be content with the prosaic, humdrum, monotonous life of regular employment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

'And I think.' said the Flower scornfully an hour later, one rounded elbow on the snoring carcass, 'that he is no more than a pig of an Afghan horse-dealer, with no thought except women and horses.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Let us take Mr. John back to Miss Lucy, or rather Emile to Sophy.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Through the enmity of Bern Hayden, the loyalty of Roger Eliot and the clever work of the “Sleuth,” Ben is falsely accused, championed and vindicated.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap

When the intoxicated gentleman had been seated for a few minutes, his faculties partially returned and looking, or rather endeavouring to look upon Atherton, for his eye was not steady enough to take a good aim, he said: "Young gentleman, I am very highly obli—obli—obligat—" "Obligated," roared the old gentleman, "you would say.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 by Various

"Yes, madam, a real lady—at least she spoke and moved like one," replied Elsie, respectfully.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mice kan liv enny whare fust rate except in a church.—they fatt very slo in a church.—this shows that they kant liv on religion, enny more than a minister kan.
— from Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1870-1879 by Josh Billings

13. “Observe how the four Evangelists use the word κοφίνους, baskets , in narrating this [pg 112] miracle, thus distinguishing it from a like one recorded elsewhere by Matthew and Mark, in which there were seven loaves, and 4,000 men, and seven panniers (σπυρίδας) of fragments.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company had a main line of road extending from Chicago, in the state of Illinois, located through the state of Iowa to Council Bluffs on the Missouri river.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

In spite of her tender years and lack of real experience she seemed to be able to advise where many an older person would have failed.
— from Jean Cabot at Ashton by Gertrude Fisher Scott

“How did The Don look?” “Oh, right enough, but I don’t like him any better, sir.”
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

[241] Unhappily, the Duke of Perth, amiable, but inexperienced and unsuspecting, confided in one whose machinations, guided by an unbounded love of rule, eventually accelerated the ruin of the cause.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

Through the enmity of Bern Hayden, the loyalty of Roger Eliot and the clever work of the "Sleuth," Ben is falsely accused, championed and vindicated.
— from The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters by John Henry Goldfrap