For as he was one day making an harangue, observing among the soldiers Pinarius, a Roman knight, admit some private citizens, and engaged in taking notes, he ordered him to be stabbed before his eyes, as a busy-body and a spy upon him.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[Pg 392] Let that aye be your border: Its slightest touches, instant pause— Debar a' side pretenses, And resolutely keep its laws, Uncaring consequences.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

Arrangements for the cure of lepers were very complete, and such syphilitic patients as responded kindly to the treatment thereby established themselves in a very different category of disease.
— from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park

Lads from all Galloway were there, shock-headed Vikings, with far-looking blue eyes, from Kirkmaiden to Leswalt, black, hook-nosed Blairs and McCallums from Garlieston sat beside Rerrick and Colvend men with deep-set eyes, the fine flower of the Free Trade, men whose forefathers had run cargoes for a hundred and thirty years into the same ports, and refused King's service for many thousand, though perfectly obedient to their own lords and war committees.
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

She plucked a rose, kissed it, and placed it in her corsage.
— from Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

“Its slightest touches, instant pause, Debar all side pretences, And resolutely keep its laws, Uncaring consequences.”
— from Model Women by William Anderson

In the northern mountainous and hilly sections are 13,000,000 Slavic peoples, the Czechs, or Bohemians, with their closely related Moravians, and the Slavic Slovaks, Poles, and Ruthenians (known also as Russniaks); while in the southern hills and along the Adriatic are another 4,000,000 Slavs, the Croatians, Servians, Dalmatians, and Slovenians.
— from Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons