“I saw Marney last night at Lady St Julians,” said Mr Egerton, “and congratulated him on his brother’s speech.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

For by such means extrapolations and combinations of the material are made possible.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

"Giants".—These are stupid, mischievous, evil and cunning in Saxo's eyes.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere, which still is built on purely illusory foundations.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more probable than the conformity and relation of the body to the soul: “Ipsi animi magni refert, quali in corpore locati sint: multo enim a corpore existunt, qux acuant mentem: multa qua obtundant;” [“It is of great consequence in what bodies minds are placed, for many things spring from the body that may sharpen the mind, and many that may blunt it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I shut my eyes, and call up a visual image of a friend sitting in the arm-chair.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

In familiar discourse, they still speak the tongue of Aristophanes and Euripides, of the historians and philosophers of Athens; and the style of their writings is still more elaborate and correct.
— 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

“And now, Sir Cedric,” he said, “my ears are chiming vespers with the strength of your good wine—permit us another pledge to the welfare of the Lady Rowena, and indulge us with liberty to pass to our repose.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Unexpectedly finding the room full of people, she was not so much embarrassed as completely overwhelmed with shyness, like a little child.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

During that season I was in London, having come thither for the first time since my entrance at college.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

(f) National Infrastructure Protection Consortium.--The Secretary may establish a consortium to be known as the ``National Infrastructure Protection Consortium''.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

As we neared the building two swarthy men emerged and came down to the shore.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb

[159] CHAPTER XX A PRACTICE MARCH Had such an accident as had occurred at Camp Dixton taken place in the midst of a big city street, there would have been so much excitement and conflict that the result would have been magnified in seriousness.
— from The Motor Boys in the Army; or, Ned, Bob and Jerry as Volunteers by Clarence Young

The proposal was merciful and the speaker most eloquent, and Cicero added to it no small weight, for when Cicero rose 196 he handled the matter both ways, partly 171 arguing in favour of the first opinion and partly in favour of Cæsar’s; and all his friends thinking that Cæsar’s opinion was for the advantage of Cicero, for he would be subject to less blame if he did not condemn the men to death, chose the second opinion rather, so that even Silanus himself changed and made his explanation, saying that neither had he delivered his opinion for death, for that the extreme punishment to a Roman senator was the prison.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Vpon these consultations and words almighty God that saueth them which trust in him, and that would not that so many euils and cruelties should come to the poore city and inhabitants of it, and also that the great Turke might not arise in ouer great pride and vaineglory, put him in minde to seeke to haue the sayd towne by treaty, which he ought not to haue done for his honour, nor by reason, for the towne was in a maner his.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

et è fatto à modo d’uno Spedale, dove sono circa cento cinquanta guardiani in loro custodia, et sonvi medicine, et altre cose per loro bisogni, e i detti guardiani vanno per la citta con bastoni cercando i matti, et quando ne truovano alcuno, lo’ncatenano per il collo con cathene di ferro, et per le mani, et à suon di bastoni lo menano al detto luogo, et quivi gli mettono una
— from Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

It is quite likely that early man preferred cannibalism to death from starvation, and that he occasionally practised it from the same motive as has induced many shipwrecked men even among civilised peoples to have recourse to the bodies of their comrades in order to save their lives.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

" Suppose that a human intendant, like this one, sets them at liberty: there they are in the streets, without a penny, beggars through the action of a law which proscribes mendicity and which adds to the wretched it prosecutes the wretched it creates, still more embittered and corrupt in body and in soul.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine