Even though I were not of the Claudian family, nor descended from patrician blood, but an ordinary individual of the Roman citizens, who merely felt that I was descended from free-born parents, and that I lived in a free state, could I be silent on this matter: that Lucius Sextius and Caius Licinius, perpetual tribunes, forsooth, have assumed such a stock of arrogance during the nine years in which they have reigned, as to refuse to allow you the free exercise of your suffrage either at the elections or in enacting laws.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The district doctor, a zealous man, new to his work, almost insisted on accompanying the police captain, the prosecutor, and the investigating lawyer.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Stay, did you tell the prosecutor and the investigating lawyer about those knocks?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The olive is the emblem of peace, as the ivy (l. 126 ) is of sensuousness.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

[910] When the corners of the mouth are much depressed, the lower lip is a little everted and protruded; and this is likewise called a pout.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

You probably all know from your own experiences the peculiar amnesia, that is, loss of memory, concerning childhood.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

After laying aside the phylacteries and tallith I left the house without tasting food, and as I walked along the streets I prayed again in the words of the Psalmist, 'Lead me in Thy truth and teach me, for Thou art the God of my salvation, on Thee do I wait all the day long.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

As far as the minor symptoms are concerned, the disease is usually chronic, for as soon as one symptom has been overcome another takes its place, and there is little hope of cure save when the case is taken vigorously in hand in childhood, treatment being best given in a home or hospital.
— from Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs

All the reports from prefects and the police, all the intercepted letters, are a tissue of absurdities and lies.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The pass across them is low ( 6265 feet ), but it commands fine prospects over the country beyond the plain of Khinis.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

The tall postilion produced from his right-hand top-boot, a damp copy of that afternoon's number of the county paper; and there, in large type, running the whole length of the very first column, was a long address from Nicholas Tulrumble to the inhabitants of Mudfog, in which he said that he cheerfully complied with their requisition, and, in short, as if to prevent any mistake about the matter, told them over again what a grand fellow he meant to be, in very much the same terms as those in which he had already told them all about the matter in his letter.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

The treatment is rather classical, and was probably adapted to its later name.
— from Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Her intentions were pure as the innocent light shining out of her hazel eyes—a gaze frank, direct, and fearless as a child's.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And are they not the deeds of my fathers which have fashioned these; which have given them their power and their individual life?
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

We have only to increase the wind pressure at the inner limb, in order to restore equilibrium.
— from Flying Machines Today by William D. (William Duane) Ennis