[ 62 ] The writer, a street chaunter of ballads and last dying speeches, alludes in his letter to two celebrated criminals—Thos.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Alex., 1268: 'Then the bright son of bold Achilles led the wife of Hector to the hollow ships; but her son he snatched from the bosom of his rich-haired nurse and seized him by the foot and cast him from a tower.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

I returned on board a little puzzled, but still not doubting.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Even our great Plutarch, that excellent and perfect judge of human actions, when he sees Brutus and Torquatus kill their children, begins to doubt whether virtue could proceed so far, and to question whether these persons had not rather been stimulated by some other passion.—[Plutarch, Life of Publicola, c. 3.] —All actions exceeding the ordinary bounds are liable to sinister interpretation, for as much as our liking no more holds with what is above than with what is below it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Or the case may be put in another way, and it may be said, that in the larger genera, in which a number of varieties or incipient species greater than the average are now manufacturing, many of the species already manufactured still to a certain extent resemble varieties, for they differ from each other by a less than usual amount of difference.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

There jogg'd in company an ass and horse; Nought but his harness did the last endorse; The other bore a load that crush'd him down, And begg'd the horse a little help to give,
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

[ 131 ] [ Contents ] Chapter X: Freya The Goddess of Love Freya, the fair Northern goddess of beauty and love, was the sister of Frey and the daughter of Niörd and Nerthus, or Skadi.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

[50] After this remarkable story, Mrs. Jones told me about another very rare psychical experience of her own, which is here recorded because it illustrates the working of the psychological law of the association of ideas:—‘My husband, Price Jones, was drowned some forty years ago, within four miles of Arms Head, near Bangor, on Friday at midday; and that night at about one o’clock he appeared to me in our bedroom and laid his head on my breast.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The two opposite entrances formed triumphal arches; the porticos, which enclosed it on every side, were filled with statues; and the centre of the Forum was occupied by a lofty column, of which a mutilated fragment is now degraded by the appellation of the burnt pillar .
— 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 must let the thing go, treat it as something that is none of our business, and let God handle the situation.
— from Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

Instead of being a lever in their hands to aid them in the overthrow of the system which was crushing them, it was a vast addition of strength to the ranks of their tyrants, who went to Congress to cry down discussion, to cry up Lynch law, and shout Hail Columbia.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

Officers, soldiers, ammunition, artillery, spare clothing for the troops, and even the printing-press go on board at last.
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

The commanders of both armies labored under great embarrassments.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

I've been a stubborn fool—but there hasn't been an hour in all these years that I haven't thought about you and our baby and longed for you."
— from Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I said offendedly: “But at least you owe me an explanation...”
— from Pan by Knut Hamsun

He was soon released, and as he grew to manhood began to take part in the government and defence of Scotland, being appointed in quick succession high admiral, warden of the marches, governor of Berwick and lieutenant of the kingdom.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Fully two hundred men banqueted in the hall that night, boards on trestles were distributed all along the length at right angles to the high table, with space between for the servers to pass, and troops of boys and lower menials squatted on the rushes, while the men-at-arms sat at the board.
— from Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

A certainty will dawn upon us which cannot be obtained by any logical interpretation or by any attempt at rationalistic explanation.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner