Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources, if not without loss at all events without ruin; but its nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colours only when they are ruined; but so long as the discovery would enable them to guard against it, it is never found wanting.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The death of Eliphalet Hale, named above, is thus noted in the Gazette of Sept. 19, 1807:—"Died on the evening of the 17th instant, after a short illness, Mr. Eliphalet Hale, High Constable of the Home District, an old and respectable inhabitant of this town.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

They were to be neither slothful nor negligent in their duty, and to be punctual in sending the teams back to him before winter set in, for this was the mandate of Almighty God.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

And she is not in the least evangelical," said Rosamond, reflectively, as if that religious point of view would have fully accounted for perpetual crape.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But now that I see you, I feel that nothing in the whole world would induce me to live under the same roof as Lord Windermere.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

Nor is there anything which tends more to discredit and frustrate the better means of influencing conduct, than a resort to the worse.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

For though I was only nine, I too was aghast at hearing such words.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Such and such a word irritates a princess, but would not in the very least shock an Alpine shepherdess.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Caesar had no inclination to trust himself to their tender mercies and refused to disband his legions unless his rival did the same.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

As he drew nearer, I thought I recognised his bearing and figure.
— from In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston

“No; I think you had better write him a note about it.”
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

"There's nobody in this world so bad," said Susie, sagely, "but that you can find something good to say about them."
— from Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Mary Spring Corning

We will refer to plants presently, after having proved by experiment the existence of nitrogen in the air.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Israel, 67 , 341 n. Itala, the, 366 , 368 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Not only had they not visited the house, but I was convinced they were not in the village.
— from A Secret Inheritance (Volume 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon