For they keep up and imitate Persian customs, I suppose, because they do not wish to be considered Parthians, and so pretend to be Persians.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

At Rivoli the turning-party was completely beaten; nor was the maneuver more successful at Stockach in 1799, or at Austerlitz in 1805.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

There were in all twenty-two nations with their kings, and the names of the nations were Goth, Magoth, Anugi, Eges, Exenach, etc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

You had no winter things and got the simplest with your own hard earnings," said Mrs. March with a look that warmed Jo's heart.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Women being of a tender nature, want tender beginnings, and when they are forcibly approached by men with whom they are but slightly acquainted, they sometimes suddenly become haters of sexual connection, and sometimes even haters of the male sex.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,—Get very drunk; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Since, then, I too exist, why do I seek that Thou shouldest enter into me, who were not, wert Thou not in me?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Here, however, a remark is necessary, which to some extent qualifies what was said in the preceding chapter, where I characterised the common notions of particular virtues—justice, etc.—as too vague to furnish exact determinations of the actions enjoined under them.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“I never wanted to wish my life away before, sir,” I said, gravely.
— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

We are willing to trust them with the Nation when they are the friends of the Nation.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

This morning early we employed all hands; some were making tar or attempting to make it, others were attatching the skins on the boat, other cuting and fiting the bark for lining puting in the woodworke &c some hunters were sent out to kill buffaloe in order to make pemecon to take with us and also for their skins which we now want to cover our baggage in the boat and canoes when we depart from hence.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The next moment Nita was torn rudely from her husband's arms, and her head and face muffled in something dark and heavy, and she was borne swiftly away from the yacht.
— from They Looked and Loved; Or, Won by Faith by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

These young gentlewomen, though apparently gifted with appetites becoming their ample, but far from graceless, forms, contrived to satisfy all the wants of nature without taking their charmed vision for a moment off the prelate, or losing a word which escaped his consecrated lips.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

When the sudden torrential storms sweep down the mountains at meal times, the little human champignons, beneath their insufficient cloche, rush about wildly seeking spots where the drippage will not wash their food away.
— from The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

His city in time got overwhelmed with the encroaching ocean, but its walls were not overthrown, nor were the rooms encumbered with the weeds and alluvial of the sea.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Never was this truer than in the case of Voltaire, who himself said: “ La vie à'un homme de lettres est un combat perpétuel et on meurt les armes à la main. ”
— from Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote

But when Bacchides knew that Jonathan had pitched his camp among the lakes of Jordan, he observed when their sabbath day came, and then assaulted him, [as supposing that he would not fight because of the law for resting on that day]: but he exhorted his companions [to fight]; and told them that their lives were at stake, since they were encompassed by the river, and by their enemies, and had no way to escape, for that their enemies pressed upon them from before, and the river was behind them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus