At another time, he saw Crates shivering in the winter, and said to him, “Crates, you seem to me to want a new dress,” meaning, both a new mind and a new garment; and Crates, feeling ashamed, answered him in the following parody:— “There [30] Stilpo too, through the Megarian bounds, Pours out deep groans, where Typhon’s voice resounds, And there he oft doth argue, while a school Of eager pupils owns his subtle rule, And virtue’s name with eager chase pursues.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Besides, I had an instinct that gentle means had the best chance of success; so, a little soothed, I turned towards home, which I reached about the hour of dinner.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Theresa amused herself with them; and I, free from all domestic concerns, diverted myself, without restraint, at the hours of dinner and supper.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By the very ill usage I received at the hands of Dr. Cox and his party, by the mob on board the “Cambria,” by the attacks made upon me in the American newspapers, and by the aspersions cast upon me through the organs of the Free Church of Scotland, I became one of that class of men, who, for the moment, at least, “have greatness forced upon them.”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

In his System der Sittenlehre , we find the Categorical Imperative grown into a Despotic Imperative; while the absolute "Ought," the law-giving Reason, and the Hest of Duty have developed into a moral Fate , an unfathomable Necessity, requiring mankind to act strictly in accordance with certain maxims.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

UP THE HEIGHTS OF DOVER I could see regiment after regiment ascend the Heights of Dover.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

Erelong the sun hardly rises above the horizon, or does not rise at all.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

Again, the arrival of the strangers made it obvious to Rachel, as the hour of dinner approached, that she must change her dress; and the ringing of the great bell found her sitting on the edge of her berth in such a position that the little glass above the washstand reflected her head and shoulders.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

It was at the end of a month, when Charlotte looked forward with increasing dread to her husband’s return and to her own departure, that the lorcha Dos Hermanos , their tried friend, left cargo and letters at the island.
— from The Locusts' Years by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

The poet, trusting to primary instincts, luxuriates among the felicities of love and wine, and is enraptured while he describes the fairer aspects of war, nor does he shrink from the company of the passion of love though immoderate—from convivial pleasures though intemperate—nor from the presence of war, though savage, and recognized as the handmaid of desolation.
— from Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

Springfield, Ohio, March 7, 1904.—Richard Dixon, a Negro, was shot to death here to-night by a mob for the killing of Policeman Charles Collis, who died to-day from wounds received at the hands of Dixon on Sunday.
— from Light Ahead for the Negro by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson

Wemock had learned that the strap was [Pg 57] safer than a knock-down, however, as a dose of it overnight did not hinder his wife from crawling out of bed to prepare the breakfast and get to work, whereas a kick such as he preferred, had been known to disable her for a week, with inconvenient results as to his own dinners and suppers.
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

The only sign of his ever having studied the intermediate positions between Astorga and Corunna lies in a report addressed to him on December 26, by Carmichael Smith of the Royal Engineers.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

Amongst the cysticerci also many malformations appear; thus absence of the rostellum and the hooks, or double formation with six suckers, or abnormalities of growth on account of the surroundings, which have had a special name given to them, viz.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

But Dom Brial's residence, at the hour of dinner, (which was four--for my own accommodation) happened luckily to be in the shade .
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin