From all that I hear we are going against cities that are great and not subject to one another, or in need of change, so as to be glad to pass from enforced servitude to an easier condition, or in the least likely to accept our rule in exchange for freedom; and, to take only the Hellenic towns, they are very numerous for one island.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

His dead father murdered and followed to the grave by menials alone: his mother with her heart torn and agonized, forcing herself from the bed of sickness to exert herself on his behalf, while every word that she must hear, and every act that she must do, could but serve to wring her heart more painfully, and call up every fearful impression of the past and the future: his promised bride, her he loved better than anything else on earth, with all her young happiness blighted, all her bright prospects gone, mourning ineffectually over his fate, and sorrowing for his ruined character and wounded name: and then the future, the dark, inscrutable, terrible future, that vast interminable cloud, filled with objects that we know not, but which to the eyes of Charles Tyrrell, rolled into every frightful form, and assumed every dark and threatening hue.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He would not, however, allow her to return into Egypt, for fear, probably, that she might in some way or other be the means of disturbing the government of Cleopatra.
— from History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott

In the use of this dialect, Ramsay is extremely fortunate; for Scottish shepherds he could have employed none other; and he wields his weapon with a dexterity which we do not think has been since exceeded.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

The Jamaica Railway Company is entitled to be spoken of with respect, for it stands in the unique position of having “its capital closed, no money has been borrowed, and the railway is entirely free from debt.”
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

The extent of this departure in the latter respect is evident from Figure 28 , showing the number of individual nightly station curves reaching a maximum peak in each hour interval.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

I imagined the slight elevation (Katongo) might be healthy, but was informed that no part of this region is exempt from fever.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

She retained its control, loaning it and receiving interest entirely free from the interference of her husband.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

The spiritual struggle with nature is voluntary, and aims at subduing our lower nature, only the more to honor the intellectual principle, and render its exercise freer from clogging and degrading influences.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various