The physician came and prescribed medicines, and the old woman prepared them for me; but utter carelessness was visible in the first, and the expression of brutality was strongly marked in the visage of the second.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The girl, sharp-witted and prompt, came and placed the basin for the duke as she had done for Don Quixote, and they soon had him well soaped and washed, and having wiped him dry they made their obeisance and retired.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The proceedings commenced against Protagoras; a price set upon the head of Diagoras; the danger of Alcibiades; Aristotle obliged to fly; Stilpo banished; Anaxagoras hardly escaping death; Pericles himself, after all his services to his country, and all the glory he had acquired, compelled to appear before the tribunals and make his defence; * * a priestess executed for having introduced strange gods; Socrates condemned and drinking the hemlock, because he was accused of not recognizing those of his country, &c.; these facts attest too loudly, to be called in question, the religious intolerance of the most humane and enlightened people in Greece."
— 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

Nor was the charity of Mahomet confined to the tribe of Koreish, or the precincts of Mecca: on solemn festivals, in the days of pilgrimage, he frequented the Caaba, accosted the strangers of every tribe, and urged, both in private converse and public discourse, the belief and worship of a sole Deity.
— 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

The man puffed his pipe calmly and put his great mudded boots on the back part of the stove.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

On the promulgation of this the officials gathered in the public court, and protested in high dudgeon against so great an office being given to an unknown person.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Phaëton currus auriga paterni; / Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis —Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of his father's car, which if he did not manage, still he perished in a great attempt. Ovid.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Physics, chemistry, and physiology proceed in the same way in their province, only they presuppose more and accomplish less.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Their lord himself pours courage and prosperous strength on the Grecians, himself stirs the gods against the arms of Dardania.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The vase was modeled in the plain clay and permitted to harden before the devices were engraved.
— from Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes

And the loss thus sustained was very imperfectly repaired by the admitted practice, sometimes resorted to by rich men, of associating with their own children the children of poorer citizens, and paying the contribution for these latter to the public tables, so as to enable them to go through the prescribed course of education and discipline,—whereby they became (under the title or sobriquet of Mothăkes
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

'Though I sometimes accept a popular call, and preach on Temperance or the Abolition of Slavery, I am sure to feel, before I have done with it, what an intrusion it is into another sphere, and so much loss of virtue in my own' ( To Carlyle , 1844).
— from Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson by John Morley

Jim decided to press Coyote and Piute into service for snaking the logs down.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

Few men who have the esprit de corps of ecclesiasticism and a reasonable regard for personal comfort and preferment are heroic enough to face the social exclusion, financial ruin, and beggary for themselves and families which are almost sure to follow a trial and condemnation for heresy.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

Shall we be swayed by foolish fears and apprehensions of earthquakes or tidal waves, and waste millions of money and years of time upon a pure conjecture, a pure theory deduced from fragmentary facts?
— from The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 by John F. (John Fairfield) Dryden

In this proposal all the military and civil officials, scholars and people concurred; and prayers were addressed to me in most earnest tone by telegram and in petitions.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Simply this, that [166] he can discard all the more or less uninspired matter that they require in order to make their purpose clear, and plunge at once into the heart of his subject.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

How different in manner and method is Walter Pater's "Imaginary Portrait," called "A Prince of Court Painters: Extracts from an old French Journal."
— from Watteau by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

These statistics, in a parish containing a population of only 947, are perhaps unparalleled in Scotland.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs