—A few months later a notable fleet of pirates, recruited from Mindanao, Jolo, and Borneo, and headed by a chieftain named Tagal, a brother of the notorious Correlat, sultan of Maguindanao, went defiantly past the new presidio and northward through the Mindoro Sea.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

And, really, had any one told Pencroft and Neb that a ship of 300 tons was waiting for them in Shark Gulf or at Port Balloon, they would not even have made a gesture of surprise.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

To have a capacity for a passion and not to realise it, is to make oneself incomplete and limited.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

For a person ought to blush when praised, and not to be past blushing from 330 impudence, and ought to check those who extol him too highly, and not to rebuke them for praising him too little; though very many people do so, themselves prompting and reminding their praisers of others of their own acts and virtues, till by their own praise they spoil the effect of the praise that others give them.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Thus in the English taste in gardens, or in bizarre taste in furniture, the freedom of the Imagination is pushed almost near to the grotesque, and in this separation from every constraint of rule we have the case, where taste can display its greatest perfection in the enterprises of the Imagination.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

By the unanimous sentence of the priests and nobles, their queen Arzema was deposed; the sixth of the transient usurpers, who had arisen and vanished in three or four years since the death of Chosroes, and the retreat of Heraclius.
— 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

Then the appellation belongs to him who corresponds to the whole phrase, and not to him who was actually named.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Two kinds of preparation are necessary, the remote and the proximate.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

Already Strasbourg, Toul, and Metz have been called to endure this indiscriminate massacre, where there is no distinction of persons; and now the same fate is threatened to Paris the Beautiful, with its thronging population counted by the million.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The perishing are not the lost; the unbelievers may yet believe: "in our deepest darkness, we know the direction of the light" (Beet).
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

If this be correct, the satire must have been a sportive anticipation of an event, which its author little expected to come to pass; and not the ebullition of revenge for the loss of an honourable and lucrative employment.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

These are called sirah , and are originally prepared by being dried in the sun and protected at night, then diluted date-juice is poured over them.
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

Ah! godliness; this it is possible and necessary to attain.
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

All these, men of Athens, are men who pursue the same designs in their own cities, as my opponents pursue among you—abominable men, flatterers, evil spirits, who have hacked the limbs each of his own fatherland, and like boon companions have pledged away their freedom, first to Philip and now to Alexander; men whose measure of happiness is their belly, and their lowest instincts; while as for freedom, and the refusal to acknowledge any man as lord—the standard and rule of good to the Hellenes of old—they have flung it to the ground.
— from The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Demosthenes

The dialogue is quick and gay, and the incidents are so prepared as not to seem improbable. . .
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

, we might naturally expect to find some strong, progressive, and national tendency in his music.
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch