They also set about collecting mercenaries; arming their own citizens who were of military age; training and drilling the city cavalry; 82 and refitting what were left of their ships, triremes, penteconters, and the largest of the pinnaces.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But he one day attacked me without reason or pretence, and with such brutality, in presence of Diderot, who said not a word, and Margency, who since that time has often told me how much he admired the moderation and mildness of my answers, that, at length driven from his house, by this unworthy treatment, I took leave with a resolution never to enter it again.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Having, naturally, an organization in which the morale was strongly predominant, together with a greater breadth and cultivation of mind than obtained among his companions, he was looked up to with great respect, as a sort of minister among them; and the simple, hearty, sincere style of his exhortations might have edified even better educated persons.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In one of my daily jaunts between Bishopsgate and Shacklewell, the coach stopped to take up a staid-looking gentleman, about the wrong side of thirty, who was giving his parting directions (while the steps were adjusting), in a tone of mild authority, to a tall youth, who seemed to be neither his clerk, his son, nor his servant, but something partaking of all three.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

And, to this purpose, in reading histories, which is everybody’s subject, I use to consider what kind of men are the authors: if they be persons that profess nothing but mere letters, I, in and from them, principally observe and learn style and language; if physicians, I the rather incline to credit what they report of the temperature of the air, of the health and complexions of princes, of wounds and diseases; if lawyers, we are from them to take notice of the controversies of rights and wrongs, the establishment of laws and civil government, and the like; if divines, the affairs of the Church, ecclesiastical censures, marriages, and dispensations; if courtiers, manners and ceremonies; if soldiers, the things that properly belong to their trade, and, principally, the accounts of the actions and enterprises wherein they were personally engaged; if ambassadors, we are to observe negotiations, intelligences, and practices, and the manner how they are to be carried on.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘You promised to honour and obey me, and now you attempt to hector over me, and threaten and accuse me, and call me worse than a highwayman.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

What an infamy is cast upon the ashes of Mithridates, or Methridates (as the Augustines read his name) by unworthy people.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition.
— 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.

Incarnate human deities of this latter sort may be said to halt midway between the age of magic and the age of religion.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“‘In winter I get up at night And dress by early candle light,’” yawned Nan one morning as the alarm went off, warning her it was time to rouse herself and Lucy.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed

Such strains may be first mentioned as act most directly on the materials of any structure or machine, and these are two in number, namely, extension and compression.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Sometimes, of course, we obtained a lift in an ambulance or private car, for even to-day the laws of meum and tuum are less rigorous here than at home.
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

But this is the grand difficulty—pride and self-congratulation are ever apt to insinuate themselves into our minds, and then adversity is necessary.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

There he remained in a hopelessness which almost compelled our sympathy, until Aina had so far recovered that she was once more able to act as our interpreter.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

There are the eight great winds of the classical dictionary,—arsenal of mystery and terror and of the unknown,—besides the wind Euroaquilo of St. Luke.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner