“One must not content one’s self in this question with saying, as one of the natural philosophers has done, that there is a re-union of the elements, or a violent motion in the vacuum under the influence of necessity, and that the body which is thus produced increases until it comes to crash against some other; for this doctrine is contrary to appearances.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The virtues and victories of Stilicho deserved the hatred of Rufinus: and the arts of calumny might have been successful if the tender and vigilant Serena had not protected her husband against his domestic foes, whilst he vanquished in the field the enemies of the empire.
— 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

He certainly never paid her any to her face.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No Pagan he, who lives for the Now, and may be wiser than all philosophers.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The corporal returned to his story, and went on——but with an embarrassment in doing it, which here and there a reader in this world will not be able to comprehend; for by the many 192 sudden transitions all along, from one kind and cordial passion to another, in getting thus far on his way, he had lost the sportable key of his voice, which gave sense and spirit to his tale: he attempted twice to resume it, but could not please himself; so giving a stout hem!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

at this time of day, today, nowadays; already; even now, but now, just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro hac vice[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

His translation of Tibullus, he thought, was very well done; but The Sugar-Cane, a poem, did not please him; for, he exclaimed, 'What could he make of a sugar-cane?
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

There was no peace, however old one grew!
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Gisablígan níyag túbig ang nagbagang puthaw, He splashed water on the glowing steel.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Bronson could not place her in the story he was about to write; it was a new and unlooked-for element, and one that promised to be of moment.
— from Van Bibber and Others by Richard Harding Davis

Nelson C. Nye (A); 24Sep65; R369055. NYSTROM, PAUL H. Retail store operation.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[42] The increased use of sales letters, the greater freedom salesmen feel in their dictation, the number of selling details now promptly handled by mail without an expensive call—all are directly traceable to the manager's ANALYSIS which he made by using the final objective as a starting point.
— from The Knack of Managing by Lewis K. Urquhart

The struggle with the Porte has begun, and his honor will not permit him to recede from the stand he has taken.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It has been already proved, by incontrovertible facts, that the contemptible motives thus attributed to the Commander of the forces, could not possibly have existed in his mind; and the attempt to impute to him a conduct so dishonorable ought therefore to be marked with the severest reprobation.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

If a theory of tactics had existed in 1780, and if Captain Carkett had had a sound training in Page 5 [pg 5] such a theory, he could not possibly have misunderstood Rodney's signal.
— from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

Solely occupied with history, and especially interested in political history, when he has once recognized "the uselessness of digging for a supposed basis of truth" in legends which relate to "a past which was never present," he is justified in leaving them alone.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Twelve o'clock had struck, and I could not pain her by another refusal.
— from Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry

he said in Latin; and the words and the new position had such a reviving effect upon the wounded rifleman that he caught at one of the priest’s hands and held to it firmly.
— from !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by George Manville Fenn

“Are you not a New Protestant, Herr Counsellor?”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various