If a slave be convicted of slaying a freeman voluntarily, either by his own hand or by contrivance, let the public executioner take him in the direction of the sepulchre, to a place whence he can see the tomb of the dead man, and inflict upon him as many stripes as the person who caught him orders, and if he survive, let him put him to death.
— from Laws by Plato

But the knowledge of their sentiments, instead of persuading him to recall his decree, provoked him to extend to all Egypt the term of the exile of Athanasius.
— 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

towards the Community, not towards himself (because he suffers with his own consent, and no man can be Unjustly dealt with with his own consent), and on this principle the Community punishes him; that is a certain infamy is attached to the suicide as to one who acts Unjustly towards the Community.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

His deep researches into causes and effects, his unwearied application to the study of natural philosophy, his profound and unlimited knowledge of the properties and virtues of every gem which enriches the deep, of every herb which the earth produces, at length procured him the distinction which He had sought so long, so earnestly.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

On examination we shall find that in the present as in the past his talents are displayed principally along two lines--financial and occult.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Helps such as spit blood and matter; bruised and mixed with salt and applied to the place, helps the bitings of mad dogs.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

To counterbalance their royal descent, he had courage, activity, energy, and, above all, that devoted attachment to the cause which had procured him the epithet of The Saxon, and his birth was inferior to none, excepting only that of Athelstane and his ward.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

If you could but persuade him to come out, monsieur, I should owe you the gratitude of my whole life; I should adore you as my patron saint!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

His men, who previously had tramped downheartedly over wastes of snow and miry cross-roads, now marched with head erect as in former days; the villagers, far from being cowed by the brutalities of the Cossacks, formed bands to hang upon the enemies' rear and entrap their foragers.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

The queen ran over the paper quickly and turned with a gentle smile to the officer, who was still kneeling before her, and who, in all her humiliation and misfortune, still paid her the homage due to majesty.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Ross and Vernon, unaware of what was taking place, thought for a moment that the submarine was plunging headlong to the bed of the Bristol Channel.
— from The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"The General is a bigger man than the doctor," I thought, half angrily, "and yet the General will be a gay old bird as long as the gout permits him to hobble."
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

When the thief said this, they took him to the king, and after he had received a promise of pardon, he told him the whole history of the night from the beginning.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

I don't know what to do," and he looked so pitiably helpless that the driver was sorry for him, though he could not help laughing.
— from Fairy Tales from Gold Lands by May Wentworth

This gentleman, a young practitioner just entering practice, had the courage to use the antidote according to the writer's directions in spite of the hostile criticisms of his seniors in the profession and even his own university teachers, and thereby not only saved two valuable lives, but also set a praiseworthy example, which was soon followed by others.
— from On Snake-Poison: Its Action and Its Antidote by A. Mueller

As the Félibrige grew, and as Mistral felt his power as a poet grow, he sought a larger public; he turned naturally to the peoples most closely related to his own, and Italy and Spain were embraced in his sympathies.
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

It is a picturesque, half-timbered, thatched cottage, in which it is supposed that Shakespeare's wife spent her maiden days, but the theory is by no means certain.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: England by John Finnemore

are you really pretty hearty, though?" said William, shaking hands with him again, and patting him again, and rubbing him gently down again — The Haunted Man , chap.
— from Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks by Charles Dickens