In all the past history of our monastery, no such scandal could be recalled, and in no other circumstances could such a scandal have been possible, as showed itself in unseemly disorder immediately after this discovery among the very monks themselves.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Cretans, again, either by land or sea, in ambushes and piratical excursions, in deceiving the enemy, in making night attacks, and in fact in every service which involves craft and separate action, are irresistible; but for a regular front to front charge in line they have neither the courage nor firmness; and the reverse again is the case with the Achaeans and Macedonians.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I consider after this the nature of relation, and its effects both on the passions and ideas, I can no longer doubt, upon these suppositions, that it is the very principle, which gives rise to pride, and bestows motion on those organs, which being naturally disposed to produce that affection, require only a first impulse or beginning to their action.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I comprehended, at once, that my aunt was right; and I comprehended the full extent of her generous feeling towards my dear wife.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

For without those Essentiall Rights, (as I have often before said,) the Common-wealth cannot at all subsist.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Since he accepts the Socratic doctrine that right achievement in the former depends upon rational knowledge, he is compelled to discuss the nature of knowledge.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

As soon as they heard her orders they ran away in every direction as fast as possible.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In any case, it portrays with a terrible vividness one side of the court life of the Italian Renaissance; and its picture of the fierce quest of pleasure, the recklessness of crime, and the worldliness of the great princes of the Church finds only too ready corroboration in the annals of the time.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The young fellow followed satirically at his mother's elbow, and made a mock of her pride in it, trying to catch Westover's eye when she led him through the kitchen with its immense range, and introduced him to a new chef, who wiped his hand on his white apron to offer it to Westover.
— from The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete by William Dean Howells

Even from a distance Charmides could see men running about in the court.
— from Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae (Complete) by Jennie Hall

Time passed, and a few more did drop in, including Henry Marten, luckily remembered as in jail for debt near at hand, and fetched thence in triumph.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

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— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

Although he kept farm servants they would never stay out the year with him; but ran away in the middle.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

In any case, the mounds for succeeding structures were gradually raised above it; and by this act the rows were buried and thus preserved as conclusive proof of the advanced state of culture which the Master Farmers had achieved.
— from Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia by G. D. Pope

“Apropos of the breed of horses in Lower Brittany,” he continues, “they are capital hunters, and yet my ordinary little English mare was much admired, while every stable round about is filled with a pack of these little pony stallions sufficient to perpetuate the local breed for long to come.”
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

“If you attempt to run away, I’ll shoot you.
— from The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic