At no other time, even when he had lost heavily on the Stock Exchange, had he felt so great a contempt for himself.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Adam, now ope thine eyes; and first behold The effects, which thy original crime hath wrought In some to spring from thee; who never touched The excepted tree; nor with the snake conspired; Nor sinned thy sin; yet from that sin derive Corruption, to bring forth more violent deeds.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Yet it is difficult to regard an enlightened Catholic of to-day as a sort of retarded savage who continues to be deceived by his associations of ideas, while nothing in the nature of things explains or justifies these ways of thinking.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He patiently expected the death of the empress; he despised the tears of his mother, who soon sunk under the weight of her affliction; and a law was promulgated in the name of the emperor Justin, which abolished the rigid jurisprudence of antiquity.
— 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

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relation to the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And the intense interest of the company is communicated not only to the first auditors, but to us who in a distant country read the narrative of their emotions after more than two thousand years have passed away.
— from Phaedo by Plato

The interesting nature of the events which were crowded into the short reign of this active emperor, deserve a just and circumstantial narrative.
— 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

541 These orders being obeyed, the fight remained doubtful for a time; but presently Philip’s men yielded to the inequality of the ground, and the superior number of the enemy, and gave way.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The inhabitants of our side of the moon have, evidently, no darkness at all, so there can be nothing of the “extremes” mentioned.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Transcriber's Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
— from The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone by Alexander Craig Gibson

She made what excuses she could for Aunt Dunes: she was hindered by duties that had crowded upon her, she had been forbidden going by Captain Cruel; but none of these excuses satisfied Judith.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Gradually, brooding over his wrongs, he had accustomed himself to think Cecil not only the egotist he was, but an unscrupulous plotter, who wished to keep under lock and key a man able to unmask his rapacity.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

The captain had sternly ordained silence during the voting; so that all they could do was to hold up their hands to the very top of their reach, and keep a wild look-out that they were being counted, and that none of the enemy was in any way, moral or physical, circumventing them.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

"Of course this would be interpreted by everybody as meaning that after due discussion, the council had formally resolved not only to exclude Darwin's theory from the grounds of the award, but to give public notice through the president that they had done so, and, furthermore, that Darwin's friends had been base enough to accept an honour for him on the understanding that in receiving it he should be publicly insulted!
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

The vengeance which pursues me is not of the earthly judge.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Pg 97] Of very great influence in the growth of our knowledge with regard to the sun, is the remarkable piece of good fortune by which the countries around the Mediterranean, so easy of access, have been favoured with a comparatively large number of total eclipses during the past sixty years.
— from Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage

None of them ever comes down alive."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The nature of the excipient should be suited to that of the active ingredients in pills, as well as in all other forms of medicine.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson