But when God saw that he was ungrateful, and upon the ceasing of this calamity would not grow wiser, he sent another plague upon the Egyptians:—An innumerable multitude of frogs consumed the fruit of the ground; the river was also full of them, insomuch that those who drew water had it spoiled by the blood of these animals, as they died in, and were destroyed by, the water; and the country was full of filthy slime, as they were born, and as they died: they also spoiled their vessels in their houses which they used, and were found among what they eat and what they drank, and came in great numbers upon their beds.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

If, by an access of courtesy, the Minister were civil enough to admit that the escape of the Alabama had been due to criminal negligence, he could make no such concession in regard to the ironclad rams which the Lairds were building; for no one could be so simple as to believe that two armored ships-of-war could be built publicly, under the eyes of the Government, and go to sea like the Alabama, without active and incessant collusion.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

No syllogism is needed to persuade us to eat, no prophecy of happiness to teach us to love.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But there are always six of them making their way above the earth; for, corresponding to that part of the last sign which in the course of its revolution has to sink, pass under the earth, and become concealed, an equivalent part of the sign opposite to it is obliged by the law of their common revolution to pass up and, having completed its circuit, to emerge out of the darkness into the light of the open space on the other side.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

To the right and left of the point of assault all the artillery possible should be brought to play upon the enemy in front during the assault.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The sciences bestow, as is right and fitting, infinite pains upon that experience which in their absence would drift by unchallenged or misunderstood.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

During the first day of their journey the arrest of Lucien Chardon de Rubempre took place under their eyes near Bouron, Seine-et-Marne.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Nevertheless, he caught sight of the archdeacon prone upon the earth in the mud.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

[ This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to execute the decree of the Amphictyons; in the Low Countries, where the province of Holland always gave the law; and, in our own time, in the Germanic Confederation, in which Austria and Prussia assume a great degree of influence over the whole country, in the name of the Diet.]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Many patients in the asylum sit for a long time rocking themselves backwards and forwards; "and if spoken to, they stop their movements, purse up their eyes, depress the corners of the mouth, and burst out crying."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The bullets from their guns had a peculiar sound, something like the buzz of a bumble-bee, and the troopers' horses would stop, prick up their ears and gaze in the direction whence the hum of those invisible messengers could be heard.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

I can remember no other particulars, until the event occurred which made me what I am, and which is vividly impressed on my mind.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

The two sounds or smells are thus separated by the movement located at its ends, the movement itself being realized as a sweep through space whose value is given partly by the semicircular-canal feeling, partly by the articular cartilages of the neck, and partly by the impressions produced upon the eye.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

"Where," asks the cheerful Earl, speaking upwards of a fortnight after the delivery of his great speech—which we are more than ever satisfied ought to remain prominently under the eye of the country, for the guidance alike of candidates and electors in the approaching great struggle—"where are the indications of alarm, anxiety, and uncertainty?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

[250] In Castile it lingered somewhat longer and traces of its existence are to be found in some places until the end of the thirteenth century.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Génifrède had made great progress, under the eye of Moyse.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

With which he left Shaban to pick up the empty coffee cup.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight

"A pretty Robinson you would make, to be sure, spoiled boy that you are!" "Why?--have I not all I want here with me?" "Yes, till we come to the bottom of the basket, and have emptied our one bottle; after that perhaps we might do battle to the poor swans, and prey upon their eggs; and then the comedy would be over, and the tragedy would begin.
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse