Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum / Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero —It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth.
— 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.

For modern psychology emphasizes the radical importance of primitive unlearned instincts of exploring, experimentation, and "trying on."
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I could with less pain endure the raging in my own natural unsatisfied appetites, even hunger or thirst, than I could submit to leave ungratified the most whimsical desires of a woman on whom I so extravagantly doated, that, though I knew she had been the mistress of half my acquaintance, I firmly intended to marry her.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Skeletons are not things particularly congenial to poets, unless it be for the sake of having something truly horrible to shudder at and to frighten children with: and so a certain school of philosophers exhaust their rhetoric in convincing us that the objects known to science are artificial and dead, while the living reality is infinitely rich and absolutely unutterable.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As the cigars are supposed to be exactly alike in every respect, it is perfectly clear that for every move that the second player may choose to make, it is possible exactly to repeat it on a line drawn through the centre of the table.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

But I remained to look upon the crowd; And saw a thing which I should be afraid, Without some further proof, even to recount, If it were not that conscience reassures me, That good companion which emboldens man Beneath the hauberk of its feeling pure.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

St. Phar enters the room in high spirits, when his companions, beside themselves with fear, tell him that he has committed bigamy.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

As I was saying, the thing we've got to consider about this strike——” The door opened, and six ladies, headed by Mrs. Porter, entered the room in single file and ranged themselves silently along the wall.
— from Deep Waters, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

At least, a diver, whom the peasants engaged to recover it, reported that he had seen it so placed.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

When the ointment is regularly and properly employed, the relief is generally speedy; and after the third day the dog, which had been so energetically resistful, often submits to be dressed without a murmur.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

As we have already witnessed at the house of Glaucus the ordinary routine of a Pompeian entertainment, the reader is spared any second detail of the courses, and the manner in which they were introduced.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“I do not say that spirits have appeared,” she remarks, “but if several discreet unprejudiced persons were to assure me that they had seen one—I should not be bold or proud enough to reply, it is impossible!”
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

All the observations made on it for more than two hundred years go to prove that a dark star revolves round this sun, almost in the plane of our line of sight, producing as it passes in front of it a partial eclipse that reduces it from the second to the fourth magnitude, every other two days, twenty hours, and forty-nine minutes.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

In Scotland the Puritans established their religion in a Church governed by elders, or presbyters, instead of bishops, which on that account got the name of Presbyterians.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery