This balcony was in the rear of the house, the gardens of the faubourg were round us, fields extended beyond.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And we should consider that God gave the sovereign part of the human soul to be the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say, dwells at the top of the body, and inasmuch as we are a plant not of an earthly but of a heavenly growth, raises us from earth to our kindred who are in heaven.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The one vermilion which straight forward gazed; And joining on to it were other two, 40 One rising up from either shoulder-bone, Till to a junction on the crest they drew.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil's life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother and nursery-maid to his daughter, and, later, in the suffering which she had caused him; she could see the tortured expression which was never absent from the old man's face in those terrible last years; she knew that he had definitely abandoned the task of transcribing in fair copies the whole of his later work, the poor little pieces, we imagined, of an old music-master, a retired village organist, which, we assumed, were of little or no value in themselves, though we did not despise them, because they were of such great value to him and had been the chief motive of his life before he sacrificed them to his daughter; pieces which, being mostly not even written down, but recorded only in his memory, while the rest were scribbled on loose sheets of paper, and quite illegible, must now remain unknown for ever; my mother thought, also, of that other and still more cruel renunciation to which M. Vinteuil had been driven, that of seeing the girl happily settled, with an honest and respectable future; when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old music-master, she was moved to very real grief, and shuddered to think of that other grief, so different in its bitterness,
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

344 True law is right reason conformable to nature, 438 universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Walker, in his edition, proposes to read ut for et ; thus, quibus ut apparitores et hoc genus ab Etruscis —— numerum quoque ipsum ductum placet, "who will have it, that as public servants of this kind, so was their number also, derived from the Etrurians ."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The guilty were dealt with tenderly, because the interest of the city demanded that severity should not diminish the great influx of scholars who flocked to that renowned university from every part of Europe.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As to which, Plato elsewhere calls it “the supreme form of the soul that is within us,” and says that “God has given it to each one of us as a guiding genius, even that which we say dwells in the summit of our body and raises us from earth towards our celestial affinity.”
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

What good can come of our holding out when no aid can possibly reach us from Egypt?'
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The two great kingdoms, each of which by itself has earlier or later claimed to sway the world, were (without being fused into one) to remain united for ever under him and his successors.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

By suitable management a chain of artemisium could be made to resemble a string of vari-colored gems, each separate link having a tint of its own, while, as the wearer moved, delicate complementary colors chased one another, in rapid undulation, from end to end.
— from The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss

There were garlands of roses, festoons of roses, bouquets of roses; roses overhead, roses under foot, everywhere roses.
— from Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

[20] which he had reared up from eggs hatched under a hen.
— from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston

No advice given in a work of this description can be of any real use, for every case must be judged entirely on its merits.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

Each works after her own fashion in a way that is relatively uniform for each species.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

She remains uninhabited for ever, and unoccupied into generation of generations; and not an Arab pitches his tent there, and shepherds do not make their folds there.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

For the standards of the army guarding the city were covered with spiders, and weapons were seen reaching up from earth to heaven while a great din resounded from them, and in the shrines of Aesculapius bees gathered in numbers on the roof and crowds of vultures settled on the temple of the Genius Populi and on that of Concord.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus