Good-nature and honesty, especially the latter, are so indispensably required, that, though the greatest censure attends any violation of these duties, no eminent praise follows such common instances of them, as seem essential to the support of human society.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The rocks broke and gave way under our feet, and we had to be scrupulously careful in order to avoid dangerous and constant falls.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

To this was added, in fine, the preponderating and skilfully concerted influence of the aristocracy over the elections, which guided them ordinarily, although not always, to the choice of candidates agreeable to the government.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

A little before evening Firmus was seen mounted on a tall horse, expanding his scarlet cloak in order to attract the notice of his soldiers, whom he was exciting with a loud voice at once to deliver up Theodosius, calling him a ferocious and cruel man—an inventor of merciless punishments—as the only means of delivering themselves from the miseries which he was causing them.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

She was travelling second class, instead of third as she ought to have done, through one of those lapses so inevitable to young people in her position.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The Marvel Model "S" Carbureter is of the automatic air valve, heat controlled type.
— from Marvel Carbureter and Heat Control As Used on Series 691 Nash Sixes Booklet S by Anonymous

The boy departed, grinning, and little more than half an hour later a respectable-looking man presented himself at Savoy Court, inquiring of the attendant near the elevator for the apartments of “his excellency,” followed by an unintelligible word which presumably represented “Ormuz Khan.”
— from Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer

Trench warfare changed the whole course of events and rendered necessary wide and sweeping changes in organization, training, and equipment.
— from Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce

it’s only September,” said Colin; “I ought to ask, Are they here now?”
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The inner grating was at the bottom of a stone staircase, down which another keeper speedily came in obedience to a summons from Busby's lips.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The officers who had played this cruel joke upon him begged him, with the most ridiculously serious air, to place himself on a stationary chair in order to avoid the recurrence of such an accident; while the lady who had been made the accomplice in this practical joke, with much difficulty stifled her laughter, and his Excellency was consumed with an anger which he could express only in looks and gestures.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 06 by Louis Constant Wairy