These petty sovereigns revered the power or virtue of the Carlovingian monarch, implored the honor and support of his alliance, and styled him their common parent, the sole and supreme emperor of the West.
— 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

As that man who called his maid in the house, and cried out to her, "See, Dionysia, I am angry no longer," 274 so he that does anything agreeable and polite, and then goes and spreads it about the town, plainly shows that he looks for public applause and has a strong propensity to vain-glory, and as yet has no acquaintance with virtue as a reality but only as a dream, restlessly roving about amid 129 phantoms and shadows, and making a display of whatever he does as painters display a picture.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But when the tragic actor's part is done, When clamor ceases, and the fights are won, When heroes realize what Fate decreed, When chieftains mark no more which thousands bleed; When they have shone, as clouded or as bright, As fitful meteor in the heaven at night, And when the sycophant no more proclaims To gaping crowds the glory of their names,— 'Tis then the mem'ries of warriors die, And fall—alas!—into obscurity, Until the poet, in whose verse alone Exists a world—can make their actions known, And in eternal epic measures, show They are not yet forgotten here below.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

I don't suppose I'll be much in the house anyhow, except for meals.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

seeing that without emulation, ambition, or envy, ye loved one another like brothers, each rejoicing as much in the honour and profit of his friend as in his own!
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

"It looks as though you have no man in the house at all," said Korolyov.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And after supper his bed was made in the hall, and there he rested that night.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Whoever has now gained from all these expositions a knowledge in abstracto , and therefore clear and certain, of what every one knows directly in concreto , i.e. , as feeling, a knowledge that his will is the real inner nature of his phenomenal being, which manifests itself to him as idea, both in his actions and in their permanent substratum, his body, and that his will is that which is most immediate in his consciousness, though it has not as such completely passed into the form of idea in which object and subject stand over against each other, but makes [pg 142] itself known to him in a direct manner, in which he does not quite clearly distinguish subject and object, yet is not known as a whole to the individual himself, but only in its particular acts,—whoever, I say, has with me gained this conviction will find that of itself it affords him the key to the knowledge of the inmost being of the whole of nature; for he now transfers it to all those phenomena which are not given to him, like his own phenomenal existence, both in direct and indirect knowledge, but only in the latter, thus merely one-sidedly as idea alone.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not the least ground, therefore, in the moral law for a necessary connection between morality and proportionate happiness in a being that belongs to the world as part of it, and therefore dependent on it, and which for that reason cannot by his will be a cause of this nature, nor by his own power make it thoroughly harmonize, as far as his happiness is concerned, with his practical principles.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

About the same time there were brought to the king from the Aurea Chersonesus, a country so called, precious stones, and pine trees, and these trees he made use of for supporting the temple and the palace, as also for the materials of musical instruments, the harps and the psalteries, that the Levites might make use of them in their hymns to God.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

There were several men in the house all armed with deadly weapons, awaiting the approach of the intruders.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

I haven't said much to you about it, but all the returned soldiers laugh every time my name is mentioned in their hearing, and make sport of the Home Guards because they are willing to acknowledge me as their commander; and I believe that is one thing that makes them so ready to rebel whenever I issue an order they don't like.
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon

"There--I'm talking politics, and I should entertain you with pleasanter and more interesting things," he apologized.
— from The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

[453] § 6 In the long perspectives of history the cult of Napoleon, and his peculiar effect upon certain types of mind, is of far more interest and far more importance than his actual adventures.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[Pg 83] Her Grace of Marlborough, in towering headdress and a gown of red velvet over a petticoat of cloth of gold, led the first dance with his Grace of Devonshire, the Princess Anne and the duke being vis-à-vis , but only a poor spectacle by comparison.
— from My Lady Clancarty Being the True Story of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady Elizabeth Spencer by Mary Imlay Taylor

He had never been very intimate with her or her husband, but he had been to meals in the house, and he remembered the fragrant coffee and the light, puffy, well-baked rolls made by Marietta’s own hands; and he thought of the many differences between living in that very good house with that gentle, pleasant-voiced lady and his present life in the village tavern.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

But my! I turned hot all over when I found out what I'd put my name to,—me that had always be'n counted a smart woman!
— from Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett

cried Nancy, thinking of the sunshine her own little sisters made in the home at “The Corners.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

"He said he would like to make sure of me; and indeed I thought myself it might perhaps be as well he should be the one to mention it to her as a settled thing.
— from Phyllis by Duchess