I think Ola simply finally decided to throw himself on the mercy of the government, on the idea that there would be more joy over the one sinner that repenteth than over the ninety and nine that are already saved.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Even Lorenzo bad the People remember that She had undergone no trial, and advised them to leave her punishment to the Inquisition.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I had been told one evening of a wise woman, a Mrs. Davis, who revealed secrets, foretold events, &c. I put little faith in this story at first, as I could not conceive that any mortal could foresee the future disposals of Providence, nor did I believe in any other revelation than that of the Holy Scriptures; however, I was greatly astonished at seeing this woman in a dream that night, though a person I never before beheld in my life; this made such an impression on me, that I could not get the idea the next day out of my mind, and I then became as anxious to see her as I was before indifferent; accordingly in the evening, after we left off working, I inquired where she lived, and being directed to her, to my inexpressible surprise, beheld the very woman in the very same dress she appeared to me to wear in the vision.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Last night the advantage was with me.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Especially is this noticeable in the South, where theology and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

More nearly than any other government of Hellas, the Pythagorean league of three hundred was an aristocracy of virtue.
— from The Republic by Plato

One day I crawled near to a country school house, and my curiosity being excited by the monotonous hum of the students within, I made bold to enter and creep along a crack between two boards until I reached the far end, where, in front of a hearth of glowing embers, sat the master at his desk.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Egypt is the country which lies next to Africa; in the interior it runs in a southerly direction, as far as the territory of the Æthiopians, who lie extended at the back of it.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

45 Priesthoods that do not teach, aristocracies that do not govern; the misery of that, and the misery of altering that, are written in Belshazzar fire-letters on the history of France.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Ken would need them all; he wished he had five times as many.
— from Under Arctic Ice by Harry Bates

Be you two the terror of untamed Araxes and of swift Euphrates; may Nile throughout all his length belong to you and all the lands upon which the morning sun lets fall his beam.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Never tried a broken arm myself, but I should say that hand must be itching to be at work in the operating-room again.”
— from Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

He will soon convince himself that Species have no more definite and real existence in Nature than all the other divisions of the Animal Kingdom, and that every animal is the representative of its Branch, Class, Order, Family, and Genus as much as of its Species, Specific characters are only those determining size, proportion, color, habits, and relations to surrounding circumstances and external objects.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

They shall not take away the only guide and leave me stone blind.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 by Various

Pitt's reliance on the statics of statecraft rather than on the dynamics of nationality tells against the credibility of the oft-repeated story that he prophesied the liberation of Europe by the enthusiasm and efforts of the Spaniards.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Then 'twas as rare to see one as to spye A tradesman that had never told a lie."
— from Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road by Lennox, William Pitt, Lord

It knew nothing, therefore, to sure purpose, nothing that availed to satisfy or save it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

He hates, above all things, Lollardry, "this new tapinage," and he commends the virtues; the stories come in by way of example: mind what your eyes do, witness Actæon; and your ears, witness the Sirens.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

This information found its way into the newspapers through a different channel."
— from Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Josephine Chase