But the equinox, according to the opinion of all the Eastern nations, and particularly of the Egyptians, 966 who surpass all other learned men in calculation, falls on the twenty-first day of March, as we also prove by horological observation.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The poem contains no dialogue in the proper sense, for its three characters only engage in a kind of lyrical monologue, of which one of the other two is supposed to be an auditor, sometimes even no one at all.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In countries whose features are of less magnitude, nature betrays her living powers in the foliage of the trees, in the growth of herbage, in the soft purling of meandering streams; here, endowed with giant attributes, the torrent, the thunder-storm, and the flow of massive waters, display her activity.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A maxim of Henry Spigurnel, a judge in the time of Edward I., is reported, that "where a man is killed by a cart, or by the fall of a house, or in other like manner, and the thing in motion is the cause of the death, it shall be deodand."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The strike in Lancashire and the revolt in the mining districts had so completely drained this county of military, that the lord lieutenant had insisted on Lord Marney quitting his agricultural neighbourhood and quartering himself in the region of factories.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The qualities and fortunes of Lucullus, Metellus, and Scipio have ever run more in my head than those of any of my own country; they are all dead; so is my father as absolutely dead as they, and is removed as far from me and life in eighteen years as they are in sixteen hundred: whose memory, nevertheless, friendship and society, I do not cease to embrace and utilise with a perfect and lively union.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Only let me come.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I confess unto Thee Thy gifts, O Lord my God, Creator of all, and abundantly able to reform our deformities: for I had no part in that boy, but the sin.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Choose, sir,” I said to Mr. Smalley, “between the risk of losing your client’s business and the risk of losing Mine.” Quite indefensible, I admit—an act of tyranny, and nothing less.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Every year thousands of laboring men spend their hard earnings and beggar their families by falling in traps laid for them.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

With this suggestion her mother immediately complied, and the two ladies appealed to the indulgence of little Miss Evers, who was obliged to renounce the society of Captain Lovelock.
— from Confidence by Henry James

ALCIBIADES: Only let my instructor take away the impediment, whether it pleases him to call it mist or anything else!
— from Alcibiades II by Plato (spurious and doubtful works)

Drawing their canoes out of the water and concealing them in the bushes, they loaded themselves with the birds, carrying the eggs in baskets, and hurried on, leaving Mr Carlingford to watch the proceedings of the strangers.
— from Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston

But it was all of no avail; he was about to succumb to superior numbers when, at the risk of his own life, Monsieur Lebrenn, assisted by his son and George, although the latter was wounded, threw themselves between the prostrate colonel and his exasperated assailants, and succeeded in extricating him from under his horse, and in pushing him into the shop.
— from The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Eugène Sue

At that time liued likewise a worthie Gentleman, whose many verie famius deeds (wherof I am sorie I may here make no rehearsal, because neither time nor occasion will permitte me) renowne his name to all ensuing posterities: he, being called sir Richard Whittington , the founder of Whittington Colledge in London, and one that bare the office of Lord Maior of this Citie three seuerall times.
— from The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking by Robert Greene

“But you seem to forget that I’m more or less married already.”
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

He boldly credits the Church with a Gospel before Paul’s conversion, and, like other traditionalists, supplies Paul, the gospel-less, with a physician, Luke, who had collected from the scattered mass of logia more gospel than anybody else!
— from The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The general result of M. Comte's criticism on the revolutionary philosophy, is that he deems it not only incapable of aiding the necessary reorganization of society, but a serious impediment thereto, by setting up, on all the great interests of mankind, the mere negation of authority, direction, or organization, as the most perfect state, and the solution of all problems: the extreme point of this aberration being reached by Rousseau and his followers, when they extolled the savage state, as an ideal from which civilization was only a degeneracy, more or less marked and complete.
— from Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

His mode of living might testify that a gnawing remorse abode ever with him, but his hair had not turned white in a single night, as the heads of those suddenly stricken by a great shock or a great grief or any greatly upsetting and disordering emotion sometimes are reputed to turn.
— from Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb