Nam quid ego dicam de Lydia? Quis unquam Græcus comœdiam scripsit in qua servus primarum partium non Lydus esset’ : comp.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Besides confirming my standpoint, he laid even greater stress upon what I had dared to say about the deterioration of language in Germany (nowadays writers assume the airs of Purists [1] and can no longer even construct a sentence); sharing my contempt for the literary stars of this nation, he concluded by expressing his admiration for my courage—that "greatest courage of all which places the very favourites of the people in the dock." ...
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Terror, however, and darkness conspired against her, and, having moved a few yards, the feeble light, that issued from the chamber, no longer even contended with the gloom, and, her foot stumbling over a step that crossed the passage, she fell to the ground.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

But whenever anyone who has power feeds his curiosity till it is strong and vehement, he can no longer easily control it, when it hurries him on to illicit acts, from force of habit; and such people open their friends' letters, thrust themselves in at private meetings, become spectators of rites 252 they ought not to witness, enter holy grounds they ought not to, and pry into the lives and conversations of kings.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[288] Let each one believe what he thinks; nay, let every champion of such impiety say whatever mad contention may suggest.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

No lower estimate could have vindicated the indefatigable zeal with which she scratched, and her unscrupulousness in digging up the choicest flower or vegetable, for the sake of the fat earthworm at its root.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

—¿Qué nombres llevan en castellano las variedades comerciales de azúcar?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Consequently phenomena in the world are conditionally limited, but the world itself is not limited, either conditionally or unconditionally.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

That their mutual love had subjected both to many dangers and difficulties, during which they suffered a cruel separation; after the torments of which, he had happily found her in England, where she now lived entirely cut off from her native country and connexions, and destitute of every other resource but his honour, love, and protection.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

‘Tis not that a wise man may not live everywhere content, and be alone in the very crowd of a palace; but if it be left to his own choice, the schoolman will tell you that he should fly the very sight of the crowd: he will endure it if need be; but if it be referred to him, he will choose to be alone.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

There is a nice little English church at Palermo, near the Street of Palms, and I quite enjoyed the service, everything was so bright and peaceful.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

Within eight-and-forty hours the story was told by Lady de Brantefield and her friends at every card-table at the polite end of the town, and it was spread by Lady Anne through the park and the ball-rooms; and the ladies’-maids had repeated it, with all manner of exaggerations, through their inferior but not less extensive circles.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

"—"What!"—"Yes, Sire; the son of one who is no longer Empress cannot remain vice-king.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

We no longer exchanged cheerful glances of mutual encouragement as we glided in and out of her chamber.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

The bushes kept off the sun, and the water, no longer evaporating, collected in a little cavity of the rock, and they were bountifully supplied.
— from The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg