Tyrannical, impatient, hair-brain schoolmasters, aridi magistri , so [2123] Fabius terms them, Ajaces flagelliferi , are in this kind as bad as hangmen and executioners, they make many children endure a martyrdom all the while they are at school, with bad diet, if they board in their houses, too much severity and ill-usage, they quite pervert their temperature of body and mind: still chiding, railing, frowning, lashing, tasking, keeping, that they are fracti animis , moped many times, weary of their lives,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.”
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

1847 Nothing certain is known of this people or their town, but it is thought by Rezzonico that by this name were meant those who occupied the wood-clad heights of the Apennines, above Modena and Parma.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In four minutes it had cleared the four vertical leagues separating it from the surface of the ocean, and after emerging like a flying fish, it fell back into the sea, making the waves leap to prodigious heights.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

At the age of twelve or fourteen years, the most robust youths were torn from their parents; their names were enrolled in a book; and from that moment they were clothed, taught, and maintained, for the public service.
— 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

This day they could not accomplish more than six miles, for every moment they were obliged to cut a road with their hatchets.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

[Pg 359] A proof is that he once ordered many crosses to be made, to which he was wont to bind them and wear out their lives by cruel treatment, and then when these were found to be many more than those who were to be put to death he commanded some of the bystanders to be arrested and affixed to the crosses that were in excess, that they might not seem to have been made in vain.
— 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

It is, as we conceive it, a government which entered the lists of the nations as the champion of the human mind, in the great struggle of Mind for the mastery over Matter, the world-old struggle between Good and Evil, Light and Darkness.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In Mrs. Marion there was something that won the heart at first sight, and her children were as lovely and attractive as herself; but towards her husband there was a feeling of instant repulsion.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, Boston , Mass.
— from Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel by Thomas William Lawson

So much easier did it seem to Gwen, that she determined to go to bed very early, so that she should escape meeting the Warden.
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

The men do not laugh, for they have already heard of the great boats that can make their way against the current without horses.
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

Thus, as I paced these deserted streets where none moved save myself (for my companions [Pg 104] had hastened on), as I gazed on ruined buildings that echoed mournfully to my tread, what wonder that my thoughts were gloomy as the day itself?
— from Great Britain at War by Jeffery Farnol

Must she give the mark that was written in her book, or the one she had really gained?
— from A Pair of Schoolgirls: A Story of School Days by Angela Brazil

The major therefore, who had no scruples either of conscience or of pocket in the matter, suggested that his lordship and Hester should take their places, and proposed cribbage to her, for what points she pleased.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

But if thou wilt not come, and wilt not salute me, then will I send kings, and soldiers, and horsemen against thee.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Rebellion against convention, dissipation—these had been the mask through which the odd temperament of Satan Sanderson had looked at life.
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives