Some Dominican monks, who were charitable and courageous enough to interfere in favour of the wretched prisoners, brought down odium on their own heads, and were accused of having allowed themselves to be corrupted by the money of the Jews.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

One or two of the latter became so merry that they could not resist a temptation to perform buffoon dancing, and Sano, the biggest and most good-humoured, gave imitations of famous actors.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“On the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become depressed, “I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young man....
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Generosity may be found among all sorts of people, and I earn my pay by doing my tricks not by teaching them.”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now when the categories are to be applied to these ideas, it is not possible to give them any object in intuition; but that such an object actually exists, and consequently that the category as a mere form of thought is here not empty but has significance, this is sufficiently assured them by an object which practical reason presents beyond doubt in the concept of the summum bonum, the reality of the conceptions which are required for the possibility of the summum bonum; without, however, effecting by this accession the least extension of our knowledge on theoretical principles.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

This element of economy will be perhaps best dealt with by a concrete illustration, and one of a very striking nature at once presents itself.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

to do so, the plague being decreased this week to 56, and the total to 227.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She could see the eastern horizon growing pale by degrees, then turning crimson as though from a great fire.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Common term in the north, where they say that the PARSON points, but does not lead.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

"That is what I was forced to do," answered Philip Bartlett, dryly.
— from Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In this region they had established an immune zone, which was constantly patrolled by destroyers and other anti-submarine craft, and through these the merchant fleets were constantly passing with complete safety.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

From this place the two arteries diverge in their descent; the peronaeal being directed along the inner border of the fibula towards the back of the outer ankle; while the posterior tibial, approaching the inner side of the tibia, courses towards the back of the inner ankle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

[58] Whether price be defined as a quantity of goods given for a good, or as the ratio between the two quantities of goods exchanged, is for present purposes immaterial.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

At present I will only mention that the meaning of the phrase ‘conditions of tension and movement’ ought to be made clear, and that we ought to be informed how it is that mere differences in tension can produce as many different effects as could have been produced by differences of constitution.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 Produced by Dagny
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

Abundance of light and air is my maxim, and I smile to myself when I see persons blinking disconsolately in the sunlight, and wondering where the “draughts” are coming from.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

Jason of Pheres being given over by the physicians, by reason of an imposthume in his breast, having a mind to rid himself of his pain, by death at least, threw himself in a battle desperately into the thickest of the enemy, where he was so fortunately wounded quite through the body, that the imposthume broke, and he was perfectly cured.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Naturally, you're as sweet-tempered as a sore-headed bear, and you've probably been drinking like a sheepherder on a spree."
— from The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine

Tubbs, however, had been so thoroughly persuaded, by dint of talking, there was something exceedingly anti-republican in one man's paying rent to another, that he was not disposed to give the matter up so easily.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper