Plato, like Athenian law (Telfy), punishes the theft of public property by death; the theft of private property in both involves a fine of double the value of the stolen goods (Telfy).
— from Laws by Plato

That all Jews are not Bolsheviks and that all Bolsheviks are not Jews is of course obvious; but that Jews are playing a preponderating part in Bolshevism it is absurd to deny.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Fame, Glory, Wealth, Honour, have in the Prospect pleasing Illusions; but they who come to possess any of them will find they are Ingredients towards Happiness, to be regarded only in the second Place; and that when they are valued in the first Degree, they are as dis-appointing as any of the Phantoms in the following Letter.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He did not know me, not even my sex, at that moment, at the moment of passion, perhaps, inflamed by wine, and he has only transmitted to me a propensity to drunkenness—that's all he's done for me....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His perjury presented itself before him: He reflected on the scene which had just been acted, and trembled at the consequences of a discovery.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Sadism, as we know, played a prominent part in both the French and Russian revolutions.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Such, to the savage mind, was the embodiment of malaria, sultriness, rottenness, the putrid Pretraya, invisible, but smelt and felt.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

1. P - Kt 6 R P × P If B P × P; P - R 6, 2. P - B 6 P × B P 3. P - R 6 and as in this case the White Pawn is nearer to Queen than any of the Black Pawns, White will Page 41 {41} win.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

"Moreover, we admit this too, that we perceived this, and could not possibly perceive it by any other means than the sight, or touch, or some other of the senses, for I say the same of them all."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

ANT: Narrow, prejudiced, petty, partial, intolerant, biased, warped, dogmatic.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And as no chymic yet th’ elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot, If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer’s night.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley by Samuel Johnson

Therefore let the legions of slavery use bullets; but let us wait patiently till November and fire ballots at them in return; and by that peaceful policy I believe we shall ultimately win.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The uses of cork is well known amongst us, both at sea and land, for its resisting both water and air: The fisher-men who deal in nets, and all who deal with liquors, cannot be without it: Ancient persons prefer it before leather for the soles of their shooes, being light, dry, and resisting moisture, whence the Germans name it Pantoffel-holts (slipper-wood) perhaps from the Greek Παντὸς & φέλλος ; for I find it first applied to that purpose by the Grecian ladies, whence they were call’d light-footed; I know not whether the epithet do still belong to that sex; but from them it’s likely the Venetian dames took it up for their monstrous choppines ; affecting, or usurping an artificial eminency above men, which nature has denied them.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

Baldi, in his description of the palace, printed in Bianchini's works, dwells on the judicious adaptation of the former, its windows set high against the northern sky, admitting a subdued and steady light which invited to study; its air cool in summer, temperate in winter; its walls conveniently sheltered. . . . .'
— from The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys

More precisely, perhaps, I began to feel that I wished to know her all my life.
— from A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

[Pg 169] In the eastern part of the Mare Fecunditatis lies a pair of relatively small craters named Messier, which possess particular interest because it has been suspected, though not proved, that a change of form has occurred in one or other of the pair.
— from Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss

the provincial poet put in boldly.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

"Then we'll have to put in the afternoon," proposed Prescott, "in building a log-lined pit in the ground and moving ice from the cave to fill it.
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

This author pretends that, " The RULE of all grammarians declares the verb is , and a present participle ( is building , or is writing ), to be in the active voice" only.—P. 88. (I add the word " only ," but this is what he means, else he merely quibbles.)
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

"Dry steam" is the steam in which no condensation is visible, and it may generally be obtained at a 10-pound pressure per inch, but no exact dividing line of pressure can be defined between dry steam and wet.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson