What has been already mentioned is as conducive as anything can be to preserve a tyranny; namely, to keep down those who are of an aspiring disposition, to take off those who will not submit, to allow no public meals, no clubs, no education, nothing at all, but to guard against everything that gives rise to high spirits or mutual confidence; nor to suffer the learned meetings of those who are at leisure to hold conversation with each other; and to endeavour by every means possible to keep all the people strangers to each other; for knowledge increases mutual confidence; and to oblige all strangers to appear in public, and to live near the city-gate, that all their actions may be sufficiently seen; for those who are kept like slaves seldom entertain any noble thoughts: in short, to imitate everything which the Persians and barbarians do, for they all contribute to support slavery; and to endeavour to know what every one who is under their power does and says; and for this purpose to employ spies: such were those women whom the Syracusians called potagogides Hiero also used to send out listeners wherever there was any meeting or conversation; for the people dare not speak with freedom for fear of such persons; and if any one does, there is the less chance of its being concealed; and to endeavour that the whole community should mutually accuse and come to blows with each other, friend with friend, the commons with the nobles, and the rich with each other.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

" Fundamental natural activities all betray their mayic origin.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

R. Occipital artery, accompanied by its nerve, and also by some branches of the occipitalis minor nerve, a branch of cervical plexus.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I own I was exceedingly provoked at this new alarm; and before my uncle had time to express himself on the subject, I ran up stairs, to see what was the matter.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that her proceeding was more unassuming and honest, in that she required to be believed things not demonstrated (whether it was that they could in themselves be demonstrated but not to certain persons, or could not at all be), whereas among the Manichees our credulity was mocked by a promise of certain knowledge, and then so many most fabulous and absurd things were imposed to be believed, because they could not be demonstrated.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

2. In the future the tense sign -bi- appears as -bo- in the first person, -be- in the second, singular number, and as -bu- in the third person plural.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

That's why I see and then think, because of those tails, not at all because I've got a soul, and that I am some sort of image and likeness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His two nephews, Attila and Bleda, who succeeded to the throne of their uncle, consented to a personal interview with the ambassadors of Constantinople; but as they proudly refused to dismount, the business was transacted on horseback, in a spacious plain near the city of Margus, in the Upper Maesia.
— 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

One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men, who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

These were raised still higher by the solicitude of Morillo to negotiate an armistice; but Bolivar, refusing to treat upon any other basis than that of independence, marched to the department of the Magdalena, reviewed the besieging force before Carthagena, and reinforced the division of the south, destined to act against Popayan and Quito.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 by Various

As a humorous writer said some years ago, after writing a long piece about nothing, as a burlesque on certain persons, “We are all poor critters .”
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The court-house, just now as full and as noisy as a bee-hive, was silent and deserted.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

Had he tried to keep the Great House in repair it would have swallowed the whole income of the peerage--a sum which, as it was, barely sufficed for his needs as a bachelor.
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Here, in the corner under the ikons, Fedka was sitting now, at a bare deal table.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A giant glories in his strength and cultivates it as naturally as a bird its song.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Truxton King owed his life to this strange girl who knew him not at all, but who believed in him.
— from Truxton King: A Story of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

Like the costume of the period, it strikes us now as 'artificial' because it was at the time so natural.
— from English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen

"Our life is not an apology but a life."
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton