You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also: unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you can expect of a poor man’s daughter.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

It is, in fact, a commonplace book, and the arrangement of the contents is merely casual, following the course of his reading of Greek and Latin authors.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

For if all these things are due to fortune, what hinders our saying that cats and goats and apes are under the influence of fortune in respect of greediness, and lust, and ribaldry?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Only Plato was not present, for they said he dwelled in a city framed by himself, observing the same rule of government and laws as he had prescribed for them to live under.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

Thus end the remarks on gains and losses, and attendant gains and losses.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

If those thrice-misbegotten Takers of Tenths had not seen us, we would have reached our goal a little after midday.
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

Those People, from their early Knowledge of the Phœnician Arts and Letters, imported such Rudiments of Government and Learning, as those primitive Times admitted; a Truth visible from the Similarity or rather Identity of the Phœnician and Scotic Alphabet.
— from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke

I only wish to show that there are a few names among the ancients which are inscribed on the roll of great astronomers, limited as were the triumphs of the science itself.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Upon Mr. Lincoln's election, a very powerful influence, made up of public sentiment, the efforts of 361 newspapers, the urgent recommendations of governors and legislatures, and in particular of the Republican presidential electors, members of legislature, congressmen, and whole body of voters of Indiana, united to press upon the new President the appointment of Mr. Colfax to the office of Post Master General.
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe

We must confess that our own ideas of Buenos Ayres still retain a reminiscence of gauchos and lassoes and buffalo, but this grows fainter as we find illustrations in the foreign papers of the newer buildings going up in the city.
— from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various

For every ninth night out of this ring, he said, would drop eight other rings of gold, as large and as fair.
— from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown

His ideas of money, as we know, were not very clear, and he was of the opinion that a roll of greenbacks as large as one could conveniently grasp in his hand, must be utterly inexhaustible.
— from The Mail Carrier by Harry Castlemon

I wish you to hold the reins of government as long as you live; but you have no children, and it is tolerably certain that you will have none by Josephine: What will become of us when you are gone?
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various