, you must not think you are now in Palestine, predominating over heathen Turks and infidel Saracens; we islanders love not blows, save those of holy Church, who chasteneth whom she loveth.—Tell me, good fellow,” said he to Wamba, and seconded his speech by a small piece of silver coin, “the way to Cedric the Saxon's; you cannot be ignorant of it, and it is your duty to direct the wanderer even when his character is less sanctified than ours.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"Non igitur patria praestat omnibus officiis?"
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate; do it quickly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The sinister shield (which may more properly be considered the real arms of Nürnberg) is: "Per pale or, a double-headed Imperial eagle displayed, dimidiated with bendy of six gules and argent."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

VII Sweet as the noise in parchèd plains Of bubbling wells that fret the stones, (If any sense in me remains)
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Negroes, you see, are like a sort of family ready grown, and there are no inquisitive public prosecutors out there to interfere with you.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

It is very important that you answer “Yes” or “No” in proper place on Order Sheet, naming second choice of varieties if substitution will meet with your approval.
— from Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way by R. M. Kellogg Co.

Here a person's rank is ascertained, and his society settled, at his immediate entrance into life; a gentleman and lady will always be regarded as such, let what will be their behaviour.—It is therefore highly commendable when they seek to adorn their minds by culture, or pluck out those weeds, which in hot countries will spring up among the riches of the harvest, and afford a sure, but no immediately pleasing proof of the soil's natural fertility.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

What is needed is proved power of command and capacity to work well in the field.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Intent, notwithstanding, upon making my services necessary, I passed part of every day in one or other of them.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

whether for the brightness of the nucleus , or the length and graceful form of the coma ; when first discovered it was near the star λ in the constellation of the Lion, being then at a distance of 288,000,000 379 miles from the earth; during the month of August its nucleus assumed an almost planetary aspect from the concentration of its light; on the 27th of September the head appeared almost as bright as Mercury, but smaller; when near its perihelion passage, on September 30th, its diameter, as ascertained by Signore Donati, was 3ʺ; during the early part of October it continued to increase in brilliancy, the tail becoming more elongated, and describing a beautiful arc in the heavens, occupying a space of nearly 40°, or a length of 40,000,000 miles in the solar system.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

Much of their time was spent, especially at night, in playing "poker," "old-sledge," "seven-up," etc. for the want of something else to do; and a newspaper, a Congressional speech, or even a Pub.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

"To have kept his ground at the crisis when Rokeby appeared," he writes, "its author ought to have put forth his utmost strength, and to have possessed all his original advantages, for a mighty and unexpected rival was advancing on the stage—a rival not in poetical powers only, but in that art of attracting popularity, in which the present writer had hitherto preceded better men than himself.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In illustration Spencer points to facts like the following: "Uniaxial plants begin to produce their lateral, flowering axes, only after the main axis has developed the great mass of its leaves, and is showing its diminished nutrition by smaller leaves, or shorter internodes, or both"; "root-pruning" and "ringing," which diminish the nutritive supply, promote the formation of flower-shoots; high nutrition in plants prevents or arrests flowering.
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

His morality is not in purple patches, ostentatiously obtrusive, but woven in through the very texture of the stuff.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

This, however, may easily be understood: that the recognition of the three worlds as resting in the Soul leads us to realize ourselves and all life as of the Soul; that, as we dwell, not in past, present or future, but in the Eternal, we become more at one with the Eternal; that, as we view all organization, preservation, mutation as the work of the Divine One, we shall come more into harmony with the One, and thus remove the barrier' in our path toward the Light.
— from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man by Patañjali