There is something mournful in the subject, as well as in the words and measure.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything had been made in the shops of M. Jovis by his own working staff and nothing was made outside.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In fig. 417 , we have trebles made in the same manner as fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

In many instances the symbolism has been lost to the moderns, but in others it has been retained, and is well understood, even at the present day.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

You must take what you can get and be thankful, for servants live in fear when they have young lords for their masters; and this is my misfortune now, for heaven has hindered the return of him who would have been always good to me and given me something of my own—a house, a piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else that a liberal master allows a servant who has worked hard for him, and whose labour the gods have prospered as they have mine in the situation which I hold.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

There ‘twas his good fortune to find a pretty shepherdess feeding her bleating sheep and harmless lambkins on the brow of a neighbouring mountain, in the shade of an adjacent grove; near her, some frisking kids tripped it over a green carpet of nature’s own spreading, and, to complete the landscape, there stood an ass.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cerimoniisque 25 retinendis, sapientis est —For it is the part of a wise man to protect the institutions of his forefathers by retaining the sacred rites and ceremonies.
— 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 Christian religion, as interpreted by the Jesuits, is much less of an enemy to man, in this sense, than English protestantism; it permits him at least to dance on Sunday; and one day of pleasure in the seven is a great thing for the agricultural labourer, who works hard for the other six.
— from On Love by Stendhal

One day the little daughter came running to her mother in the store-room, and said, ‘Mother, give me an apple.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I have not spoken of her since our first interview after her marriage in the summer house, when all had gone into the town to bring out Miss Frankland.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

After the knight's departure, when the chiefs entered into conversation respecting his future plans, and Lennox mentioned that when his men should arrive (for whom he had that evening dispatched Ker), it was Wallace's intention to march immediately for Stirling, whither, it could hardly be doubted, Aymer de Valence had fled, "I shall be left here," continued the earl, "to assist you, Lord Mar, in the severer duties attendant on being governor of this place."
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Yesterday I tried hard to let God manage it, but I know I wished He would manage it so as to spare me; it takes so little to pull me down, and so little to destroy my health.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

There were many indications to show that she had fled, and the mother immediately devised a crafty plan to punish the fugitive.
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

He is apt, for instance, suddenly and without the slightest reason, to go up to people whom he meets in the street and hit them with his little stick.
— from My Little Boy by Carl Ewald

I would have given all I owned—though, alack! that would have been small enough if I lost what belonged to me in the Saracen—for leave to keep the deck, but I did not venture for fear of incurring the displeasure of Vanderdecken.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

It is difficult to secure a successful organization of men into the simplest trades organization without an appeal to the most abstract principles of justice and brotherhood.
— from Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams