Nor was this limitation of simple element owing to a scarcity of it on board, for there was at this time water enough in the ship for a voyage of six months, at the rate of half-a-gallon per day to each man: but this fast must, I suppose, have been enjoined by way of penance on the ship's company for their sins; or rather with a view to mortify them into a contempt of life, that they might thereby become more resolute and regardless of danger.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Instead, he turned aside into Campania, for he heard that the land was excellent and that Capua was a great city, and thought that if he should first occupy these he might acquire the rest of Italy in a short time.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

“Would you like me,” I said, “to invite your mother and the rest of you to dine with me?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

he from heav’ns highth All these our motions vain, sees and derides; Not more Almighty to resist our might Then wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Both had exhausted life in their teens, and all that remained for them was to mourn, amid the ruins of their reminiscences, over the extinction of excitement.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But God, in opposition to their envy, sent a second vision to Joseph, which was much more wonderful than the former; for it seemed to him that the sun took with him the moon, and the rest of the stars, and came down to the earth, and bowed down to him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When food was failing them they sent a man across the river on an inflated skin to inform the dictator.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

What seemed forward assurance, now strikes me as the result of courageous innocence and conscious virtue.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

To treat them by lamplight cannot be thought of because of the mosquitoes and the risk of fever infection.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

4): "As the proportions of numbers in different States will alter from time to time; as some of the States may hereafter be divided; as others may be enlarged by addition of territory; as two or more states may be united; as new states will be erected within the limits of the United States—the legislature shall, in each of these cases, regulate the number of representatives by the number of inhabitants, according [Pg 246] to the provisions hereinafter made, at the rate of one for every forty thousand."
— from The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught by Charles C. Nott

Having no use for them in the action, he joined in the pursuit of the enemy, and with Major Payne, of the mounted regiment, two of my aids-de-camp, Todd and Chambers, and three privates, continued it for several miles after the rest of the troops had halted, and made many prisoners.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

"The length is all right, and it does not matter about the rest of the fit."
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

The stores were soon plundered, and, as the Cossacks drew near, Murat and the remnant of the Grand Army decamped in pitiable panic.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

The errors of young men are the ruin of business; BUT THE ERRORS OF AGED MEN amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

She made a thorough revision of her mother's list.
— from With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

By chance there came out of its crop ten [ 220 ] bugs in a manner disgusting to me, at the remembrance of which I am distressed and disgusted.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

On the last day of October, A.D. 1278, the church was consecrated by Bishop Guillen de Moncada, and the record of this on the west wall is now concealed, but I give a copy of it.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street