For there is no confidence, or reality, or continuance, or security, in what wickedness proposes to itself, unless by Zeus we shall say that evil-doers are wise, but wherever the greedy love of wealth or pleasure or violent envy dwells with hatred and malignity, there will you also see and find stationed superstition, and remissness for labour, and cowardice in respect to death, and sudden caprice in the passions, and vain-glory and boasting.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

In any case, the extraordinary relaxation of all ordinary rules of conduct on such occasions is doubtless to be explained by the general clearance of evils which precedes or follows it.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven.”
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

There, a cool cheek to lay against his own, And rest for that hot blood's too restless will, His hands to curve on root or clod or stone;— And deep-dug earth is very, very still.
— from Ships in Harbour by David Morton

She sat watching for another minute in perfect stillness, afraid of startling by the slightest movement the squirrel or rabbit or creature of some kind which she expected to see.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth

The same of curling, of football, of cricket, of rowing, of canoeing, of snowshoeing, of yachting, of skeeing, of running.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

His silence was, perhaps, sometimes not less effectual by way of rebuke or correction of shallow judgments than speech would have been.
— from Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

It conducted the Patriarch three times round the tomb; after which he took off his outer robes of cloth of silver, and went into the sepulchre, the door of which was then closed.
— from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

The Persian element in the provinces must, in fact, have been extraordinarily small--so small that an Empire, which for more than two centuries comprehended nearly all western Asia, has left hardly a single provincial monument of itself, graven on rock or carved on stone.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth