You are not a student and she is not a dressmaker.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Procure a Baronet (a Lord if in season); if not, a depraved “younger son”—trim him with écarté, rouge et noir, Epsom, Derby, and a slice of Crockford’s.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

At the council at Filí the prevailing thought in the minds of the Russian commanders was the one naturally suggesting itself, namely, a direct retreat by the Nízhni road.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whereas, of truth, because all things exist, With seed imperishable, Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

77 But the legions, however strong in numbers and discipline, were dismayed by the most abject superstition.
— 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 evil of sending scholars into new and dangerous hunting-domains, where courage, sagacity, and subtlety in every sense are required, is that they are no longer serviceable just when the "BIG hunt," and also the great danger commences,—it is precisely then that they lose their keen eye and nose.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the enemy who were occupying the commanding heights perceived the Macedonians approaching, they descended into the plain, being emboldened by their superiority in number and despising the Macedonians, because they were seen to be few.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He then settled in Novogorod, and during his long illness wrote the following works on ethnographic and missionary topics:—English titles:
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He did succeed in getting a little sleep, but his sufferings were indescribable, and caused him, when awake, to scream incessantly night and day, till the little voice, worn out, became weak and hoarse, and the cry ended in a feeble moan, whilst the baby face twitched with pain.
— from From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva by Carmen Sylva

Perhaps this spirit is not as departed as circumstances would indicate.
— from The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard

Herbert and Clough and many more may fall around you, but you are destined to do a great work and you cannot die till it is substantially, if not apparently, done.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

My son is not a do-nothing either.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Looking out to sea I noticed a dark, black object through the gloom, travelling towards the shore.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

Some congressmen who have been members for the last ten or twelve years, are stockholders in several of the companies, and at least one member of congress of twelve years standing is now a director in at least three companies that received grants of land, one of them getting large amounts of subsidy bonds, for all of which he voted, and for which, as often as occasion served, he has used his vote and influence in procuring additional privileges.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

xxi-xxii.; Squier , in Nouvelles Annales des Voy.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The gills under the pileus shine as brightly as a glow-worm, in the dark crevices of the olive stems in November and December.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The proper meaning of the word education, it seems, is not a drawing out, but a training up, as vines are trained to lay hold of and rise by means of what is stronger than themselves.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding