'You'll excuse me if I wander,' returned Venus; 'I am sometimes rather subject to it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

His emissaries, accordingly, departed with the letter and the requisite verbal instructions; and he attended to the affairs of the army, making it his aim now to keep on the defensive and to avoid any unnecessary danger.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx, and startling some white animal that, in the dim light, I took for a small deer.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The spirit, and even the forms of legal proceedings were repeatedly violated in a promiscuous massacre; which involved the two uncles of Constantius, seven of his cousins, of whom Dalmatius and Hannibalianus were the most illustrious, the Patrician Optatus, who had married a sister of the late emperor, and the Præfect Ablavius, whose power and riches had inspired him with some hopes of obtaining the purple.
— 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

Note 18 ( return ) [ Vandalorum, imbellis, avarae, perfidae, et dolosae, gentis, genere editus.
— 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

The spirit, and even the forms of legal proceedings were repeatedly violated in a promiscuous massacre; which involved the two uncles of Constantius, seven of his cousins, of whom Dalmatius and Hannibalianus were the most illustrious, the Patrician Optatus, who had married a sister of the late emperor, and the Praefect Ablavius, whose power and riches had inspired him with some hopes of obtaining the purple.
— 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

But what philosophical truths can be more advantageous to society, than those here delivered, which represent virtue in all her genuine and most engaging charms, and makes us approach her with ease, familiarity, and affection?
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Then for friendship's sake he founded, with his chum Wilhelm, the banking house of "Brunner, Schwab & Co.," on rue Richelieu, between rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs and rue Villedo, in a magnificent building belonging to the tailor, Wolfgang Graff.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In its original form this trick, an imported one, as are most of the tricks he exhibits, was really very ingenious and baffling, though a little slow .
— from Harper's Round Table, May 5, 1896 by Various

The Greeks and Romans visited it, and it is mentioned in 'The Arabian Nights,' under the name of Serendib.
— from Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic

His relief was so great that he urged that youth to have a cigar, and the youth in return volunteered information as to points of interest to strangers in New York.
— from Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Allied species vary in a similar manner, whilst species which are more distantly related vary in a different manner, even when acted upon by the same external influences.
— from Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II by August Weismann

But the intensely fascinating fact to mark is this:—that the real victory in all of this service is won in secret, beforehand, by prayer, and these other indispensable things are the moving upon the works of the enemy, and claiming the victory already won.
— from Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

Mr. Spence, in an elegant preface which he has written to the works of this poet, reasons very ingeniously, and, I imagine, for the most part, very rightly, upon the cause of this Page 277 extraordinary phenomenon; but I cannot altogether agree with him, that some improprieties in language and thought, which occur in these poems, have arisen from the blind poet's imperfect conception of visual objects, since such improprieties, and much greater, may be found in writers even of a higher class than Mr. Blacklock, and who, notwithstanding, possessed the faculty of seeing in its full perfection.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

If you succeed, we will receive valuable information about the nature of the enemy.
— from The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

“You are an honest fellow,” replied Verus in an altered tone, “and you know of me that I treat my servants well and would rather be kind to folks than hard upon them.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers