No ties were respected, and forced embraces became a common thing.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Young Seneca, imbibing the precepts of the Pythagorean doctrine, religiously abstained from eating the flesh of animals, until Tiberius having threatened to punish some Jews and Egyptians, who abstained from certain meats, he was persuaded by his father to renounce the Pythagorean practice.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

From this they received a faint encouragement, because they could not believe that if these men were wicked they would pause to open umbrellas.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I suppose if you included his screaming, crowing, whimpering, grunting, squalling, with occasional kicks, in his conversation, it might be regarded as fluent—even eloquent.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

All of this, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, entered Siddhartha for the first time through the eyes, was no longer a spell of Mara, was no longer the veil of Maya, was no longer a pointless and coincidental diversity of mere appearances, despicable to the deeply thinking Brahman, who scorns diversity, who seeks unity.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

No cumulative growth of intelligence would occur; experience might form habits of physical adaptation but it would not teach anything, for we should not be able to use a prior experience consciously to anticipate and regulate a further experience.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

I wanted to run away from everything
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Whatever things that dear child has all along a fancy for, do send her round a few even as often as you can by some one or other!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In place of the Guardian , which he had dropped when he felt the plan of that journal unequal to the right and full expression of his mind, Steele took for a periodical the name of Englishman , and under that name fought, with then unexampled abstinence from personality, against the principles upheld by Swift in his Examiner .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Too soon they are parents to themselves; for what Are tutors, guardians, and so forth, compared With Nature's genial genitors, so that A child of Chancery, that Star Chamber ward (I'll take the likeness I can first come at), Is like a duckling by Dame Partlett reared And frights, especially if 'tis a daughter, The old hen by running headlong to the water.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 101, Piccadilly, on WEDNESDAY, April 23, and Three following Days, the LIBRARY of a Gentleman, consisting of Modern Useful Books, together with some articles of considerable Rarity, a First Edition of Cocker's Arithmetic (but one other known); numerous Bibliographical Works, important Collection of MSS., relating to Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, London, Lancashire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, and other Places; Charters, Epistolæ S. Paula MS. of the Tenth Century, &c. Catalogues will be sent on application.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

By the way, we often find in Lancashire the sons and daughters having the names of their father or mother applied to them along with their own by way of recognition; as for example, "George o' Bob's," "Dick o' owd Sally's," "Bill o' Jack's," and so on; but this is the only instance I remember of the father being distinguished by a reference to the son.
— from Lancashire Humour by Thomas Newbigging

Then, with that perversity of character of which she was wholly conscious, she was humble, submissive, reverent, and fearful even while she gloried in the grandeur of the dark, cloud-shadowed crags and canyons, the stupendous strife of sound, the wonderful driving lances of white fire.
— from The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Beggars infested every road and filled every village.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord

The storm had raised the level of the river and filled every wash-out with swirling brown waters.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

Suddenly Lone Bear stood upright, like a man who recalls a forgotten engagement.
— from Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis