While we were interchanging thrusts and blows, Came more and more, and fought on part and part, Till the Prince came, who parted either part.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

As world-prices in terms of gold are more than double what they were, it follows that mark-prices inside Germany ought to be from sixteen to twenty times their pre-war level if they are to be in adjustment and proper conformity with prices outside Germany.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The noblest life has the greatest pleasures and the fewest pains...Having finished the preamble, and touched on some other preliminary considerations, we proceed to the Laws, beginning with the constitution of the state.
— from Laws by Plato

Under the watchful care of the Nymphs the infant Zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with Page 16
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

A blending of popular legends, and a free use of the songs of other bards, are features perfectly consistent with poetical originality.
— from The Iliad by Homer

This being the case, it is not to be doubted that particular civilities were poured upon him from all quarters.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

My infirmity was the principal cause which prevented me from mixing in polite companies, and enjoying the conversation of the fair.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I omit the lines, and proceed:)— ‘Even my poor child, who perished untimely on this sad anniversary, the tyrant who governs me had taught to despise and dislike me.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

On the other hand, in the 6th and 7th books of the Republic we reach the highest and most perfect conception, which Plato is able to attain, of the nature of knowledge.
— from Meno by Plato

The Note at page cx was printed before it had been resolved to provide the volume with a copy of Giotto’s portrait of Dante.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

So that a cross with pollen from a fresh stock greatly increased the productiveness of the flowers on plants which had been self-fertilised for the four previous generations, in comparison not only with the flowers on the same plants self-fertilised for the fifth time, but with the flowers on the crossed plants crossed with pollen from another plant of the same old stock for the fifth time.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

Herrick's name has been so persistently connected with Poor Robert's Almanack that a few words must be said on the subject.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

When he returned to his suite, his private corridor was piled up with a numerous and excessively attractive assortment of parcels.
— from The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure by Arnold Bennett

He has served as a representative of the county in the state legislature and has otherwise been prominently connected with public affairs.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

The existence of these images in a restricted area of territory, seems, moreover, to indicate that they had been invented there, possibly under the influence of a religious and political creed with particular reference to the union, in a single individual, of the power and attributes of the Above and Below—an idea which strongly contrasts with Mexico and Yucatan, where the idea of duality prevailed to such an extent that, by creating two distinct religions and governments, it ultimately led to the disintegration of the greatest of native empires and its fall, from which it was only rallying at the time of the Conquest.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Many of those who had been previously content with Puritan doctrines seceded to the Quakers.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

A personal conference was proposed, and Arnold insisted that the officer sent to confer with him should be Adjutant-general Major Andre. *
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Of course, it is important that the clothing shall be perfectly clean when put away.
— from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three by Maria Parloa

In Russia, Tchlenoff, investigating the sexual life of over 2000 Moscow students of upper and middle class ( Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle , Oct.-Nov., 1908), found that in half of them the first coitus took place between 14 and 17 years of age; in 41 per cent, with prostitutes, in 39 per cent, with servants, and in 10 per cent, with married women.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis