Again, the majority of mankind have really experienced some moral improvement; almost every one feels that he has tendencies to good, and is capable of becoming better.
— from Phaedo by Plato

Tiene razón el señor..., Mr.... is right.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

18 , makes Cupid himself to be a great dancer; by the same token as he was capering amongst the gods, [5517] he flung down a bowl of nectar, which distilling upon the white rose, ever since made it red: and Calistratus, by the help of Dedalus, about Cupid's statue [5518] made a many of young wenches still a dancing, to signify belike that Cupid was much affected with it, as without all doubt he was.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Before the last man had cleared the bridge the only one who had been arrested was set at liberty, though he had richly earned six months in jail.
— from Mlle. Fouchette: A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

It is 2000 years older, and infinitely more varied and vivid, than the Assyrian pictures which recently excited so much interest.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

“‘Tis a pity that they are thus roughly expelled,” said Montreal, in a melancholy tone.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

One of these delegates was Gambetta, whose restless energy soon made itself conspicuously felt, and lasted during the continuance of the war.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

She 'receives' every Saturday morning in the most heterogeneous way possible.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you strengthen that, you remove ever so many ills without more ado.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

"Really it is most distressing to observe to what depths Virtue may drag a man!—you are a very monster of probity and rectitude!" exclaimed Sir Maurice; "indeed I am astonished!
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol