But such is your manner of opposing, that, when you seem on the point of interrogating me, and when I am preparing to answer, you suddenly divert the discourse, and give me no opportunity to reply to you; and thus those most important points concerning divination and fate are neglected which we Stoics 325 have thoroughly examined, but which your school has only slightly touched upon.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In about ten miles I passed Cameron Downs Station, which was deserted.
— from Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869 by W. H. (William Henry) Corfield

Swanenburch had given a public exhibition of the work of his pupils, at which young Rembrandt had been pushed forward as an example of what right methods in pedagogics could do.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

It was the sort of a day which men in police circles describe as "suicide weather."
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

Without further scruple or regard to their menacing gestures, he pressed forwards to the chamber door; but immediately after felt himself laid hold of by the two fellows—one at his legs, the other at his head—and, spite of his most indignant protests, carried down-stairs into the yard.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

The Kathâ-vatthu, XIII. 2, states that a man in purgatory can do good.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

And Jules Janin, whom he had already indisposed by sketching a seeming portrait of him in the Provincial Great Man in Paris , came down heavily on the daring satirist in the Debats of the 20th of February 1843.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton