17 Before the three remaining virtues, on the other hand, is set the task of providing and maintaining those things on which the practical business of life depends, so that the relations of man to man in human society may be conserved, and that largeness and nobility of soul may be revealed not only in increasing one's resources and acquiring advantages for one's self and one's family but far more in rising superior to these very things.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The doors of the sacred edifice yielded to the impetuosity of the attack, which was accompanied with every horrid circumstance of tumult and bloodshed; but, as the bodies of the slain, and the fragments of military weapons, remained the next day an unexceptionable evidence in the possession of the Catholics, the enterprise of Syrianus may be considered as a successful irruption rather than as an absolute conquest.
— 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

Yea, he with whom neither soaking slander, nor startling statements, are successful, may be called farseeing.'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In principle , and with reference to their logical character, the "forces" and "elements" in sociology may be compared with the forces and elements in any other natural science.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This was the mastering of the newspaper, so that she might be close up with John on general topics when John came home.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Up two flights of dark stairs, three, four, with new smells of cabbage, of onions, of frying fish, on every landing, whirring sewing machines behind closed doors betraying what goes on within, to the door that opens to admit the bundle and the man.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Whether enveloped in her hammock and slung up to the roof, as in South America, or raised above the ground in a dark and narrow cage, as in New Ireland, she may be considered to be out of the way of doing mischief, since, being shut off both from the earth and from the sun, she can poison neither of these great sources of life by her deadly contagion.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In their original form, as given in this book, they still may be considered as fundamental.
— from Handy War Guide for My Company: Handy Company Commander's Guide by André Godefroy Lionel Hanguillart

[203] {165}[Compare— "An English lady asked of an Italian, What were the actual and official duties Of the strange thing, some women set a value on, Which hovers oft about some married beauties, Called 'Cavalier Servente,' a Pygmalion Whose statues warm (I fear, alas!
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

If kittens are inoculated rectally with dysenteric material containing large trophozoites, the strain may be carried in successive kittens for four to six transfers.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

“Godet left his pieces at his sister’s, a washerwoman; honest girl, she may be caught for five years in La Force without dreaming of it.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

She makes up a sentence, which sentence must be claimed by the confederate, who really wrote nothing.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 by Various

"Oh, we're all cats, mewing or spitting as the fit takes us," said Mrs. Belgrove comfortably.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

"The king," said De Morlans, "is deeply grieved that he can prove his gratitude only in words for so many benefits conferred, which are absolutely without example, but he has commissioned me to declare that if God should ever give him the occasion, he will prove how highly he places your friendship."
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

But first she must be certain where the blame lay.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson