Every year a body of municipal or county magistrates—called "selectmen" in New England, "supervisors" in New York, "trustees" in Ohio, and "sheriffs of the parish" in Louisiana—choose for each county a certain number of citizens who have the right of serving as jurymen, and who are supposed to be capable of exercising their functions.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Meanwhile the opinion would be either that we were justly so used, or that we put up with it from cowardice, and were proving degenerate sons in not even securing for ourselves the freedom which our fathers gave to Hellas; and in allowing the establishment in Hellas of a tyrant state, though in individual states we think it our duty to put down sole rulers.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

This small island, according to Professor Seligman, is not even self-supporting as far as food goes; nor are they a greatly industrial community.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Parenchyma cells form the remainder of the spermoderm; and these are partially obliterated, so that the structure is not easily seen, appearing almost like a solid membrane.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then said he, "Do you think that it follows, because the gods notice our actions and deal with us accordingly, that souls are either altogether imperishable, or for some time survive dissolution?" Then said I, "Not exactly so, my good sir, but is the deity so little and so attached to trifles, if we have nothing divine in ourselves, nothing resembling him, nothing lasting or sure, but that we all do fade as a leaf, as Homer 855 says, and die after a brief life, as to take the trouble—like women that tend and cultivate their gardens of Adonis 856 in pots—to create souls to flourish in a delicate body having no stability only for a day, and then to be annihilated at once 857 by any occasion?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Saepe enim aut eos laedunt, quos non debent, aut eos, quos non expedit; si imprudentes, neglegentiae est, si scientes, temeritatis.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But surely this is somewhat irrelevant?” “Not entirely,” said Holmes.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“No; but she wasn’t always so good as she is now either,” said Anne seriously.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"The first school in New England," says Mrs. Stow, "designed exclusively for the instruction of girls in branches not taught in the common schools, is said to have been an evening school conducted by William Woodbridge, who was a graduate of Yale in 1780.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

She is not even sorry for them when they are miserable.”
— from The Pretty Sister Of José 1889 by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In this fashion I took workshops at several other schools including National English School, Sindhi School, St. Mary's School, Bolivian Girls School and Bangalore International School.
— from Free from School by Rahul Alvares