ho d' artos elachistên kai to men elaion pleistên, ho d' oinos oligistên hekaston te tôn allôn anison
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The lives of real Christians rebuked me, and the mockery of my empty profession haunted me like a spectre. RECLAMATION.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

‘Tis a testimony of grandeur of courage to return to life for the consideration of another, as many excellent persons have done: and ‘tis a mark of singular good nature to preserve old age (of which the greatest convenience is the indifference as to its duration, and a more stout and disdainful use of life), when a man perceives that this office is pleasing, agreeable, and useful to some person by whom he is very much beloved.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Gracias al tratamiento de su segunda mujer el pobre hombre no podía resistir grandes sustos, y la inesperada noticia de la muerte de su amigo le causó tal sobresalto que expiró casi
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Hippolyte might even prosecute him.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

But it was upon his minute acquaintance with the etiquette of the duello, and the nicety of his sense of honor, that he most especially prided himself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

kai toutou mallon eti, pôs, hina to deuteron sidêrion synaphthê tô prôtô kai tô deuterô to triton kakeinô to tetarton, hama men diexerchesthai
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It in volves a propitious material environment, perfect health, perfect arts, perfect government, a mind enlarged to the knowledge and enjoyment of all its external conditions and internal functions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

My word, my wisdom, and effectual might, All hast thou spok’n as my thoughts are, all As my Eternal purpose hath decreed: Man shall not quite be lost, but sav’d who will, Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely voutsaft; once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit and enthrall’d By sin to foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Her husband had spent all her money, and then, lacking the means of obtaining more expensive pleasures, had taken, in his duller hours, to beating her.
— from The American by Henry James

Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with Miss Sullivan on the ground that I was working too hard, and in spite of my earnest protestations, he reduced the number of my recitations.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

George Eliot may even possibly have been conscious of this, for she speaks again and again, not of writing with ecstasy of tears and laughter, as Dickens did, but of falling into "a state of so much wretchedness in attempting to concentrate my thoughts on the construction of my novel" that nothing but a tremendous and sustained effort of the will carried her on at all.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

Her quarrel with her father about his meddling even prevented her from asking what the visitor was like; whatever he might do, she at least would show no vulgar curiosity.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

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— from Shenanigans at Sugar Creek by Paul Hutchens

Mere emptiness prevents him.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

“Certes, the charms of the damsel have made you poetical, my esteemed pupil,” he remarked.
— from Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales by William Henry Giles Kingston

Mr. Ellerthorpe proved himself a good servant, discharging his duties faithfully and honourably.
— from The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock

Besides, at the present day, there are several [Pg 3] different philosophies maintained; every profession has its own; which is proof of the strongest nature that not one is true, dissent from the truly natural being impossible, so universally is it applicable.
— from The Philosophy Which Shows the Physiology of Mesmerism and Explains the Phenomenon of Clairvoyance by T. H. Pasley