“It is simple enough, my boy,” observed the senior investigator, stroking his grey, pointed beard.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

After the battle of the Nile he had landed all his prisoners, upon a solemn engagement made between Troubridge on one side and Captain Barre on the other, that none of them should serve until regularly exchanged.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

But I shall speak more particularly on these matters after I have first considered Epicurus’s opinion, who thinks that all people must necessarily be uneasy who believe themselves to be in any evils, let them be either foreseen and expected, or habitual to them; for with him evils are not the less by reason of their continuance, nor the lighter for having been foreseen; and it is folly to ruminate on evils to come, or such as, perhaps, never may come: every evil is disagreeable enough when it does come; but he who is constantly considering that some evil may befall him is loading himself with a perpetual evil; and even should such evil never light on him, he voluntarily takes upon himself unnecessary misery, so that he is under constant uneasiness, whether he actually suffers any evil, or only thinks of it.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This something else may be empirical, viz.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

From these originals, and from the numerous tribe of scholiasts and critics, some estimate may be formed of the literary wealth of the twelfth century: Constantinople was enlightened by the genius of Homer and Demosthenes, of Aristotle and Plato: and in the enjoyment or neglect of our present riches, we must envy the generation that could still peruse the history of Theopompus, the orations of Hyperides, the comedies of Menander, and the odes of Alcæus and Sappho.
— 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

—Swedes elect Marshal Bernadotte Crown Prince of Sweden.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The shock of surprise on an occasion of this kind makes us aware of the expectations that habitually enter into our perceptions; and such expectations must be classed as beliefs, in spite of the fact that we do not normally take note of them or put them into words.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

She perished, gentle maid, Before her bridal day and now a shade, Silent and sad, she evermore must be In the dark chamber of Persephone.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

The four first documents were entirely in the handwriting of the President, and here and there some erasures might be noticed.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

‘My sister!’ exclaimed Mr. Benjamin Allen, folding her in a most romantic embrace.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

If a spheroid is touched by a straight line, and also by two or more planes which are parallel to this line, though not parallel to one another, all the points of contact of the line, as well as of the planes, will be in one and the same ellipse made by a plane which passes through the centre of the spheroid.
— from Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal by Christiaan Huygens

Somebody else must be found to do this business."
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"Eet preaks my heart to say eet, monsieur; but I fear eet will come to t'at, unless—" "Unless what?" asked Rushford, eyeing him as he hesitated.
— from Affairs of State Being an Account of Certain Surprising Adventures Which Befell an American Family in the Land of Windmills by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes; But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks, And, never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, 630 Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering tide.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

It may be supposed, indeed, that some expense may be incurred for transmitting to the great house (the banking company chosen) the money deposited in the Savings Bank.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

You cannot pay one solitary farthing by all the resolutions, by all the speeches ever made beneath the sun.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

“The little lady of the steamer!” exclaimed my brother-in-law.
— from Four Meetings by Henry James

He entered heartily into Philip's designs for recovering Spain's lost territory, and showed even more boldness than his royal master in their execution.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

"During the same visit, I remember his inherent love of the laboratory, if I may so express myself, being manifested in a manner which much interested me at the moment.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

All the inhabitants of Sorinnes were [348] placed before machine-guns, and a German chaplain, speaking French, ceremoniously shook each man by the hand.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart