For though he had been so cautious and backward at a time when there seemed to be no imminent danger, yet now when every one was giving way to useless grief and lamentation, he alone walked through the streets at a calm pace, with a composed countenance and kindly voice, stopped all womanish wailings and assemblies in public to lament their losses, persuaded the Senate to meet, and gave fresh courage to the magistrates, being really himself the moving spirit and strength of the State, which looked to him alone to command it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He represents that, as the far north is level, there is nothing, when the sun is in the distant horizon, to throw up a shadow towards the sky: that the light, indeed, is intercepted from the surface of the earth itself, and so there is darkness upon it; but that the sky above is still clear and bright from its rays.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

At the annual festival of the goddess, while some cakes are being cooked in oil, a member of the tribe prays that the goddess will descend on him.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

I might compare them to a man who should study the tempers and desires of a mighty strong beast who is fed by him—he would learn how to approach and handle him, also at what times and from what causes he is dangerous or the reverse, and what is the meaning of his several cries, and by what sounds, when another utters them, he is soothed or infuriated; and you may suppose further, that when, by continually attending upon him, he has become perfect in all this, he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it a system or art, which he proceeds to teach, although he has no real notion of what he means by the principles or passions of which he is speaking, but calls this honourable and that dishonourable, or good or evil, or just or unjust, all in accordance with the tastes and tempers of the great brute.
— from The Republic by Plato

Let him read no more such tracts or subjects, hear no more such fearful tones, avoid such companies, and by all means open himself, submit himself to the advice of good physicians and divines, which is contraventio scrupulorum , as [6816] he calls it, hear them speak to whom the Lord hath given the tongue of the learned, to be able to minister a word to him that is weary,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that, if my master had not thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Everything returned into the same channel as before his absence; his manners being to each so animated and agreeable as to lose no ground with either, and just stopping short of the consistence, the steadiness, the solicitude, and the warmth which might excite general notice.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The address with which Dus discharged all the functions of her new station, while she avoided those that were unseemly and out of place, charmed me almost as much as her spirit, character, and beauty.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Over and over upon the grass rolled Sheeta, growling and screaming, clawing and biting, in a mad effort to dislodge his antagonist or get some portion of his body within range of teeth or talons.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

There was a high, raw wind blowing, and I asked him why he had chosen so cold and bleak a position.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“The Bakufu” (Camp or Yedo Government) it ran “has shown great disrespect of public opinion in concluding treaties without waiting for the opinion of the Court, and in disgracing princes so closely allied by blood to the Shogun.
— from A Boy of Old Japan by R. (Robert) Van Bergen

But if we consider how in Sanskrit the Vedic instrumental plural, aśvebhis (Lat. equobus ), becomes before our very eyes aśvais (Lat. equis ), and how such changes as Bruder , brother, and Brüder , brethren, Ich weiss , I know, A.S. wât , and Wir wissen , we know, A.S. wit-on , have been explained as the results of purely mechanical, i.e. , combinatory proceedings, we need not despair of further progress in the same direction.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Nor was the York Resolution disavowed at the convention at Washington, 1911, as appears from the following recommendation of the Common Service Committee adopted by Synod: "With these amendments [finally adopted at Atchison] there remains only the York Resolution of 1864, concerning alleged errors, to be disposed of.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

In Spartanburg County attacks by Simulium seems to be confined to the immediate vicinity of the breeding-places.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

Tyne, indifferent alike to admiration and exclusivism, was not less happy on that account; but foamed over his stony channel as brisk, as brown, and as clear, as when he ran in unrestricted freedom by the old castle walls of Norlaw.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant