My aunt remained quiet; until again some stray tears found their way to her cheeks.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

On his return from Macedonia to Torone, Brasidas found the Athenians already masters of Mende, and remained quiet where he was, thinking it now out of his power to cross over into Pallene and assist the Mendaeans, but he kept good watch over Torone.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

And she desireth you as you do love her to fight this battle to the uttermost, and without any mercy, as you have promised her you would fight when she should require it of you; and she will make a rich queen for ever of any damsel that shall bring her that knight’s head with whom you are to fight.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

It is obvious in the sense that the ideal is a term of moral experience, and that truth, goodness, and beauty are inevitably envisaged by any one whose life has in some measure a rational quality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

e chronology of the earlier Scriptures should ever have been made a religious question—M.] Note 63 ( return ) [ Most of these pictures were borrowed from a misrepresentation of Isaiah, Daniel, and the Apocalypse.
— 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

It would appear, however, that matters were not going to be made all right quite so speedily as the young gentleman anticipated; for a very long conversation ensued, of which Mr. Pickwick could not avoid hearing certain angry fragments regarding dissolute conduct, and repeated forgiveness.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

On the other hand, mere sexual instinct is base, because, without individuation, it is directed to all, and strives to preserve the species merely as regards quantity with little regard for quality.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

LEMMA I. Bodies are distinguished from one another in respect of motion and rest, quickness and slowness, and not in respect of substance.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

So far we have been speaking only of the most simple bodies, which are only distinguished one from the other by motion and rest, quickness and slowness.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Et dic, Roma perit: regnabit sanguine multo, Ad regnum quisquis venit ab exsilio.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius

"Pardon me a rude question; but what do you know of the world?"
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

The only point which we have to examine is this: will the moral and religious question compel Mr Bergson to break with the conclusions of his previous studies, and can we not, on the contrary, foresee points of general agreement?
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

It sells at from three to ten dollars a ton, and this makes a revenue quite worth considering.
— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting

Malthus and Ricardo quite omit it; the Annual Register is silent; in the Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down; the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it; and yet it is never nothing.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the people of Valennes, Sache, Villaines, and other places, learned the high price given for the maid of Thilouse, the good housewives recognising the fact that nothing is more profitable than virtue, endeavoured to nourish and bring up their daughters virtuous, but the business was as risky as that of rearing silkworms, which are liable to perish, since innocence is like a medlar, and ripens quickly on the straw.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Colonel guessed what she meant, and replied, "Quite right; Rummage and rag-bags good places for them; but I say, Peter, I won't have them strung up with warming-pans and quill wheels and my trousers.
— from The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes