And all this was not on any special occasion, or when his administration was especially popular, but for forty years he held the first place among such men as Ephialtes, Leokrates, Myronides, Kimon, Tolmides, and Thucydides; and, after the fall and banishment of Thucydides by ostracism, he united in himself for five-and-twenty years all the various offices of state, which were supposed to last only for one year; and yet during the whole of that period proved himself incorruptible by bribes.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

By such means it may appear who those are, that, by an indis Page 546 criminate support of all administrations, have totally banished all integrity and confidence out of public proceedings; have confounded the best men with the worst; and weakened and dissolved, instead of strengthening and compacting, the general frame of government.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

L.G. Ἀστεῖος, ου, ὁ, ἡ, (ἄστυ, a city) pr. belonging to a city; well-bred, polite, polished; hence, elegant, fair, comely, beautiful, Ac. 7.20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Please! please!" He took her down as if she had been a canary.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Yes,” pitied Pollyanna, her eyes shining with sympathy.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Catilīna ipse pertimuit, profūgit; hī quid exspectant?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

She must learn to feel that she had been mistaken with regard to both; that she had been unfairly influenced by appearances in each; that because Captain Wentworth's manners had not suited her own ideas, she had been too quick in suspecting them to indicate a character of dangerous impetuosity; and that because Mr Elliot's manners had precisely pleased her in their propriety and correctness, their general politeness and suavity, she had been too quick in receiving them as the certain result of the most correct opinions and well-regulated mind.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

2 official, coming from the proper authority. pista — public holiday,
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Aristonicus was believed to have been born of an Ephesian concubine of the king.[509] We know nothing of his personality, but the history of his two years' conflict with the Roman power proves him to have been no figure-head, but a man of ability, energy and resource.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

With all these facts before us, we cannot allow that there ever was a time when the Greeks in all Hellenic cantons subsisted by purely pastoral husbandry.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

But while the discovery of these impelling forces of history was entirely impossible in all other periods, on account of the complicated and hidden interrelations with their effects, our present period has so far simplified these relations that the problem can be solved.
— from Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Friedrich Engels

“Doctor Sevier,” said Richling, as he and the physician paused half way between the sick-chambers of Reisen and his wife, “I hope you’ll not think it foolhardy for me to expose myself by nursing these people”— “No,” replied the veteran, in a tone of indifference, and passed on; the tincture of self-approval that had “mixed” with Richling’s motives went away to nothing.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

He even suggested rather pointedly that Mistress Green Stays might be to blame, but John Gore looked so grim at the innuendo that Mr. Pepys pushed his pleasantries no further.
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

"There's plenty places," he said soberly, rather faint as he compared their present surroundings with that dream-villa by the blue sea.
— from Command by William McFee

* * * * * “Hallo!” cried Polly, putting her saucy sunny face in at the door next morning when breakfast was ready: “I thought I was fetched last night?”
— from Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens

On the prince presenting himself to the guard, an old soldier of the army of Napoleon kneeled and kissed his hand, when suddenly one of the officers, who had his quarters in the town, rushed upon the scene with his sword drawn, crying: "Soldiers, you are deceived!
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer