The sacrifice of the wife at her husband’s funeral was an ancient custom in the Orient and in portions of Africa, and still survives in the Hindu suttee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And the Aretine, who trembling had remained, Said to me: "That mad sprite is Gianni Schicchi, And raving goes thus harrying other people." "O," said I to him, "so may not the other Set teeth on thee, let it not weary thee To tell us who it is, ere it dart hence.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

After stating Hume’s theory that “no qualities of the mind are approved of as virtuous, but such as are useful or agreeable either to the person himself or to others, and no qualities are disapproved of as vicious but such as have a contrary tendency”; he remarks that “Nature seems indeed to have so happily adjusted our sentiments of approbation and disapprobation to the conveniency both of the individual and of the society, that after the strictest examination it will be found, I believe, that this is universally the case.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The feelings peculiar to certain social ranks are projected into the universe: stability, law, the making of things orderly, and the making of things alike, are sought in the highest spheres, because they are valued most highly,—above everything or behind everything.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thence homewards, and meeting Mr. Creed I took him by water to the Wardrobe with me, and there we found my Lord newly gone away with the Duke of Ormond and some others, whom he had had to the collation; and so we, with the rest of the servants in the hall, sat down and eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Sometimes it seemed impossible that he should fail to hear our approach.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

From the beginning something in Theodora had spoken to the best in him.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn

He presented her with an elegant villa at Tibur, or Tivoli, about twenty miles from the imperial city; and here, surrounded by luxury, she who had played so imperial a rôle in history sank into the humbler state of a Roman matron.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

And without any definite intention, she indicated to her subtle and devoted friend the only way in which he could console her.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

Set beside that kindly picture this rough etching by James Robertson: “The biggest devil among them [the Spaniards] is the half Spaniard, half Frenchman, half Scotchman and altogether Creek scoundrel, McGillivray.”
— from Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner

“You wouldn’t believe if I told you,” said I, to his sudden sharp question.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

I was his teacher and he my disciple, how then should I take his soul!"
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

611 Leake supposes it to have stood in the plain of Marathia, opposite the island Trissonia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

They was all rich men as bought them bulbs, and they was all mad; and you lay your last farden's-worth of silver spoons if this here scheme of a voyage to the Equator ain't the caper of a blooming Dutchman who's made
— from The Last Entry by William Clark Russell