The βαλανάγρα was a straight piece of wood with upright pins corresponding with those that fall into the bolt (the βάλανοι), and which are pushed up by it.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

A Roman who possessed a sufficient family of his own might be prevailed upon by a friend who had no children to transfer his wife to him, being fully empowered to give her away, by divorce, for this purpose; but a Lacedaemonian was accustomed to lend his wife for intercourse with a friend, while she remained living in his house, and without the marriage being thereby dissolved.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Our father's God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To thee we sing: Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King. --Samuel F. Smith, 1832. {358}
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

But I shall speak to Mr. Crackenthorp; I'll not be put upon by no man.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

cried D’Artagnan to the man with the scythe, taking one of the pistols up by the muzzle and preparing to strike with the handle.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The rind of the tree provokes urine, breaks the stone; the husks and shells of the nuts, dried and given in powder, stay the immoderate flux of the menses.
— 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

At the very most all that can aid them is a handful of excellent maxims, which they have picked up by listening at the keyhole.
— from On Love by Stendhal

He proposes that there should be a permanent and perpetual union between, if possible, all Christian sovereigns—of whom he suggests nineteen, excluding the Czar—“to preserve unbroken peace in Europe,” and that a permanent Congress [p. 35] or senate should be formed by deputies of the federated states.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

They were as much afraid of our goods as they were of our people; and indeed they had reason: for our woollen manufactures are as retentive of infection as human bodies, and if packed up by persons infected, would receive the infection and be as dangerous to touch as a man would be that was infected; and therefore, when any English vessel arrived in foreign countries, if they did take the goods on shore, they always caused the bales to be opened and aired in places appointed for that purpose.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

[4395] P. Bayerus is against them: and so is Hollerius; All melancholy men (saith he) must avoid such things as provoke urine, because by them the subtile or thinnest is evacuated, the thicker matter remains.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They may mean that posterity shall pay the debts; but so long as a dishonest legislature can with a stroke of the pen plunge us back into dishonor, it is hardly worth while to pay the dishonored millions now staring our consciences in the face and humiliating us to the dust.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

Such illusions justify themselves by their practical usefulness, but they likewise prove that theoretical insight is not the purpose of our sense-experience.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

He employs the most endearing of terms—"beloved children"—to persuade us by the Father's love to love even as we are loved.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

"Pardon me, Chief," he eagerly answered; "on the contrary, I perfectly understand; but I am subject to a certain absence of mind completely independent of my will, which I hope you will not feel offended at, for I assure you it is no fault of mine."
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

Martin soloed around the city for another week, then rented a car and raced up to his sister's home in Burlington, Vermont, to play Uncle Bountiful to Carol's three kids and to lap up as much as possible of his sister's real cooking.
— from Code Three by Rick Raphael

Lines from this point to Pittsburg and Morgantown, diverging nearly at the same angle, open upon equal terms to all parts of the western country that can make use of this portage; and which may include the settlements from Pittsburg up Big Beaver, to the Connecticut reserve, on Lake Erie, as well as those on the southern borders of the Ohio and all the intermediate country.”
— from Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent by Archer Butler Hulbert

e laws and magistrates shall be continued as at present, unless by the general wish of the islanders.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

In 1821 the general was almost peremptorily urged by Sibilet to be at Les Aigues before the month of May.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Certainly, if the conscience of the Flying Pigeon was as innocent of every other crime as of this, he could perform his great feat, even with the change of the programme, unblushingly before the potentates of Europe and Asia, and the nobility and highly cultivated public of Fichtenau.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The most valuable moveable inside were not worth carrying away; and outside is but the coracle standing in a lean-to shed, propped up by its paddle.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid