" 7. Hereupon Clement openly commended Cherea's intentions, but bid him hold his tongue; for that in case his words should get out among many, and such things should be spread abroad as were fit to be concealed, the plot would come to be discovered before it was executed, and they should be brought to punishment; but that they should leave all to futurity, and the hope which thence arose, that some fortunate event would come to their assistance; that, as for himself, his age would not permit him to make any attempt in that case.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

From what I hear, it’s unlawful for any living man aboard ship to shed hair or nails, unless the wind has kicked up a heavy sea.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

But then if murder be The law by which not only conscience-blind Creatures, but man too prospers with his kind; Who leaving all his guilty fellows free, Under your fatal auspice and divine Compulsion, leagued in some mysterious ban Against one innocent and helpless man, Abuse their liberty to murder mine: And sworn to silence, like their masters mute
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

As I drew nearer I was more amazed still to see that it was Lord John Roxton.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Valentine and Villefort were dumb; the eye of the old man alone seemed to say clearly, “Go on.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

MOS: And since, to seem the more officious
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

[Widow Quin makes a sign to Shawn to leave them.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

But I, in the midst of the sermon, did go out, and walked all alone, round to Deptford, thinking para have seen the wife of Bagwell, which I did at her door, but I could not conveniently go into her house, and so lost my labour: and so to the King’s Yard, and there my boat by order met me; and home, where I made my boy to finish the my manuscript, and so to supper and to bed my new chamber-maid, that comes in the room of Jane; is come, Jane and Tom lying at their own lodging this night: the new maid’s name is Matt, a proper and very comely maid...
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

15 Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Indians took great interest in this map, asking many questions about the mountains and streams they saw represented upon it, and in some instances adding streams which were not laid down.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

Brokedon and Mr. Augustin Spalding, to same effect.
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

“I did suggest that; but he said he’d rather pay me a salary to stay out of the office.
— from The Teacup Club by Elisa Armstrong Bengough

A joker at a banker's table, Most amply spread to satisfy The height of epicurean wishes, Had nothing near but little fishes.
— from A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine

No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword; 16 No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain’s breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
— from The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

But the elders of Jerusalem being very uneasy that the brother of Jaddua the high priest, though married to a foreigner, should be a partner with him in the high priesthood, quarreled with him; for they esteemed this man's marriage a step to such as should be desirous of transgressing about the marriage of [strange] wives, and that this would be the beginning of a mutual society with foreigners, although the offense of some about marriages, and their having married wives that were not of their own country, had been an occasion of their former captivity, and of the miseries they then underwent; so they commanded Manasseh to divorce his wife, or not to approach the altar, the high priest himself joining with the people in their indignation against his brother, and driving him away from the altar.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The exterior development of this new land amounts to about twelve miles, and supposing the sea to be of a uniform depth of thirty-three feet, it would advance annually at the rate of 660 feet.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

Salt is made in great abundance from salt water; and large salt-pans have been erected at Rose Bay, whence, and at Newcastle, great quantities are made and sent to Sydney.
— from The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by D. D. (David Dickinson) Mann