Yes, said Polemarchus, and not only so, but a festival will be celebrated at night, which you certainly ought to see.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright Chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The poets are not only singers, but leaders; they hold up an ideal, and they compel men to recognize and follow it.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue—a Faun, or some such figure, minus the head.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The chief pleasure and necessity of such men, when they encounter anyone who shows animation, is to flaunt their own dreary, persistent activity.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In a struggle with Peloponnesians and neighbours our strength is of the same character, and it is possible to move swiftly on the different points.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I agree with you, Socrates, said Protagoras; and not only so, but I, above all other men, am bound to say that wisdom and knowledge are the highest of human things.
— from Protagoras by Plato

The first thing they noticed was the unmistakable parsimony and niggardliness of Semyon Ivanovitch.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of this the first designer was Rhoicos the son of Philes, a native of Samos.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Although there were a good many people around, no one seemed to pay much attention to the two girls.
— from A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods by Jane L. Stewart

It was while a resident of Sioux City that Mr. Holm was united in marriage, in August, 1870, to Miss Charlotte Peterson, a native of Sweden, who had come to the United States when seventeen years of age.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

The latter married Miss Eliza Power, a native of Sorel, province of Quebec, and whose father was connected with the commissary department of the army.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The “hair dyes,” advertised under so many different names, contain such poisons as nitrate of silver, oxide of lead, acetate of lead, and sulphate of copper.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

5 Each pore and natural outlet shrivelled up By ignorance and parching poverty, His energies roll back upon his heart, And stagnate and corrupt, till, chang'd to poison, They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“But, at the same time, you must remember that though the customs of the Poultry are not ours, still, they may be very reasonable customs—perhaps more reasonable than our own.
— from Fanny's First Novel by Frank Frankfort Moore

At the lower end there are parked a number of small guns; in the centre, some camp kitchens, with smoke rising from the chimneys.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson