Again, a malum prohibitum is just as much a crime as a malum in se.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Bereft of understanding, firm to my purpose, I hardened myself against conviction, and arrogantly answered, that as they had thought fit to give me warning, I had resolved to take it, and conceived it was now too late to retract, since, whatever might happen to me, I was fully resolved not to be driven a second time from the same house.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2nd Edition, small post 8vo, cloth extra, 6 s. Blue Banner (The); or, The Adventures of a Mussulman, a Christian, and a Pagan, in the time of the Crusades and Mongol Conquest.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

In the Bellary district, the names Munrol and Munrolappa are common, and are given in hope that the boy may attain the same celebrity as the former Governor of Madras.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Just prior to this he had married a charming and accomplished Jewess.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children’s children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

When the taste for physical gratifications amongst such a people has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away, and lose all self-restraint, at the sight of the new possessions they are about to lay hold upon.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It is reported of Decius, and Valerianus, those two notorious persecutors of the church, that when they could enforce a young Christian by no means (as [5136] Hierome records) to sacrifice to their idols, by no torments or promises, they took another course to tempt him: they put him into a fair garden, and set a young courtesan to dally with him, [5137] took him about the neck and kissed him, and that which is not to be named, manibusque attrectare , &c., and all those enticements which might be used, that whom torments could not, love might batter and beleaguer.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I regret to leave you, and more to leave her, now, but I will not encourage this compound of meanness and cruelty, and, as I will not ask you to renounce him, I see you no more.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Not only such men, as Caesar adds, are commonly DANGEROUS, but also, having little enjoyment within themselves, they can never become agreeable to others, or contribute to social entertainment.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

“I must admit cowboys are abrupt,” responded Helen, with a smile.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

“The parson heard me and come about and broke for the shore.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

‘Now I saw that there stood behind the multitude a chariot and a couple of horses waiting for Faithful, who (so soon as his adversaries had despatched him) was taken up into it, and straightway was carried up through the clouds, with sound of trumpet, the nearest way to the Celestial gate.’
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

Sorrow over Bridget an’ the onmerited contoomely of that old profligate has shore left me as crazy as a woman’s watch.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

But the community which had jammed itself in the valley thus flanked formed a veritable town, with a real mayor and corporation, and a staple manufacture.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

It should not be made as commonplace as a mere hygienic tubbing, nor be carried out by a crowd of clothed persons in muddy water.
— from Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

He has been made a colonel, and a degree of [393] nobility has been conferred upon him; likewise the Regent is sponsor to one of his children.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and whoso marrieth her which is put away, doth commit adultery.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

Accompanied by Pacheco, Velazquez went to Madrid and craved an audience of the King.
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan