Cato says that the profits of agriculture are particularly pious or just ( maximeque pius quaestus ), and according to Varro the old Romans "called the same earth Mother and Ceres, and thought that they who cultivated it led a pious and useful life, and that they alone were left of the race of King Saturn.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

La 15 misma señora, sin entusiasmarse mucho, a causa sin duda de nuestro origen, parecía bien dispuesta a ello, a causa de lo mucho que me estima y venera, como a confesor y amigo... Pero de repente se presenta ese malhadado joven.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line; she carried the slops down to the street every morning and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The conquest of Hindostan by the Moguls was reserved in a later period for the house of Timour; but that of Iran, or Persia, was achieved by Holagou Khan, 231 the grandson of Zingis, the brother and lieutenant of the two successive emperors, Mangou and Cublai.
— 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

At first, satisfied with enjoying the sight of the barren contest of my two bacchanalians, I was amused by their efforts and by the contrast of colours, for one was dark and the other fair, but soon, excited myself, and consumed by all the fire of voluptuousness, I threw myself upon them, and I made them, one after the other, almost faint away from the excess of love and enjoyment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Not that I hold the literary productions of the ancients to be irreproachable; but I think that they have some especial merits, admirably calculated to counterbalance our peculiar defects.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

ANOTHER PART OF THE SAME. ENTER MOSCA AND CORVINO, CELIA FOLLOWING.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Such expensive material as citron can be omitted altogether if desired and greater quantities of apples, which are the cheapest ingredient, used.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

She inquired further about his youngest daughter, whose social fortunes she seemed disposed to promote; she even made a civil reference to the remote dweller at Riverdale Park.
— from With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

I thought nothing of it, that at the table—to-day there was a long row of us, the clergyman and his sister, two bailiffs, three farm-pupils, a forester, and Isabella (by way of exception)—she laughed through the entire scale every minute, and carried on all manner of nonsense.
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

As they are so easily made and can be carried with so little trouble, it is an excellent plan to set out with a dozen or so, hanging them all in different parts of the woods; as, under circumstances of so many being set, scarcely a day will pass in which the trapper will not be rewarded by some one of the snares.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

“Why did she ever make a caricature of one who has been as a mother to her?
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

At the conclusion of this speech every man and child felt that it was unanswerable.”
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

"Might they calculate on a thousand stout, effective men?" asked Charost.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various