All this country was formerly possessed by the Scythians, surnamed Aroteres; their towns were, Aphrodisias, Libistos, Zygere, Rocobe, Eumenia, Parthenopolis, and Gerania 2548 , where a nation of Pigmies is said to have dwelt; the barbarians used to call them Cattuzi, and entertain a belief that they were put to flight by cranes.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

CONTAINING RULES FOR THE ETIQUETTE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE STREET, AT TABLE, IN THE BALL ROOM, EVENING PARTY, AND MORNING CALL; WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR POLITE CORRESPONDENCE, DRESS, CONVERSATION, MANLY EXERCISES, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Alas, that is a Government existing there only for its own behoof: without right, except possession; and now also without might.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He remembered every point, and did not think it necessary to go over in his memory what he would say.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Consequently, it is not in vain that laws are enacted, and that reproaches, exhortations, praises, and vituperations
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Note 94 ( return ) [ Every passage and every fact that relates to the isle, the city, and the colossus of Rhodes, are compiled in the laborious treatise of Meursius, who has bestowed the same diligence on the two larger islands of the Crete and Cyprus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

One of these is that the Romans enrolled Pythagoras as a citizen, as we are told by Epicharmus the comic poet, in a letter which he wrote to Antenor.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Two remained with the men in black, who rummaged every place and took all the papers.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

He describes his first impressions of a tropical country in a letter to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Griswold, who had decided to spend the winter in Geneva to superintend the education of his son Arthur, a lad of nine:— "In St. Thomas we received every possible attention.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

The ordinary soil, both in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, is, with some remarkable exceptions, poor and easily worked out; but those alluvial patches are so rich as to be practically inexhaustible.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

Among those who had embraced the new faith—new, indeed, and wonderful to that generation—were Sidney Rigdon, Edward Partridge and Newel K. Whitney.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

[287] Robert E. Park and Herbert A. Miller, Old World Traits Transplanted .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I attached their real estate which was well improved and valuable; procured a judgement of $8,000.00 against said real estate, procured an execution and ordered the sale of said real estate.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

Seated near the edge of the cliff one realises, as it is possible nowhere else to realise, except perhaps at Dover, the truth of Edgar's description of the headland in King Lear .
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

He seems very much taken with her; and no wonder, for she is really excessively pretty; and when she is in spirits, as she was to-night, her manner is most piquante and fascinating.” “Well, my dear boy,” was the reply, “you know your friend best, and if he and Fanny choose to take a fancy to each other, and you approve of it, I shall not say anything against it.”
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Besides, Salvan had warned him, and had recommended extreme prudence, a course of skilful tolerance during the first months.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola