Back to back with these again, facing the agger, are placed the infantry who serve in the same way as these cavalry.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

My daughter wants to make peace before the duke comes, and you had better consent to arrangements, for there are three of them, and it isn’t likely that you could kill the whole three one after the other.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn't go looking for help from my neighbours."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But Plato is no doubt led to imagine that the planets have an opposite motion to that of the fixed stars, in order to account for their appearances in the heavens.
— from The Republic by Plato

If the same divines meet with anything of like nature unpalatable in St. Chrysostom, St. Basil, St. Hierom, or others of the fathers, they will not stick to appeal from their authority, and very fairly resolve that they lay under a mistake.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

They wished to consider all, to balance every thing, and found that an employment well suited to our natural curiosity.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But even in this abridged form they are absolutely necessary as preliminary to any true understanding of the symbolism of Freemasonry.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The passion, vehemence and haste of Othello affect him, because he perceives them; but if he does not perceive the hints which [427] show the duration of the action from the arrival in Cyprus to the murder, these hints have simply no existence for him and are perfectly useless.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

They would fling their accoutrements from them and stand in silent groups till the sergeants and corporals returned to lead them to the barns and out-houses that had been assigned to them, the houses still habitable being mostly reserved for the officers.
— from All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Early on the afternoon following the accident, Dr. Brownlee had saddled his horse and ridden away to meet Mrs. Burnam, and prepare her for the new care awaiting her; but it was not until the next day that he told her of his real fear, the danger that the injured eye might become so seriously inflamed that its sight would be destroyed.
— from In Blue Creek Cañon by Anna Chapin Ray

Both the height and time of high water are perpetually changing, and, although the problem does not admit of a general solution, it is necessary to analyse the phenomena which ought to arise from the attraction of the sun and moon, but the result must be corrected in each particular case for local circumstances, so that the theory of the tides in each port becomes really a matter of experiment, and can only be determined by means of a vast number of observations, including many revolutions of the moon’s nodes.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

But no man took aught from them, and so, after Kinchella had offered up a prayer of thanksgiving for our release and another that, if not now, at least at some future date, these poor heathens might be gathered into the true fold, we set forth.
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Everybody takes a fancy to a jolly rolypoly like you, Tubby."
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

Except the road through the tropical forests near Darjiling, along which I rode on my way to and from Tibet, and which runs for miles through glorious tropical vegetation, by immense broad-leaved trees with unknown names, all festooned with creepers and lighted with orchids; 103 by great tree ferns, wild bananas, and a host of other treasures of plant life, and through which glimpses of the mighty Kinchinjanga, 28,250 feet, could be caught,—except that I know of no other more beautiful road than this along the ridge of Gulmarg.
— from Kashmir, described by Sir Francis Younghusband, painted by Major E. Molyneux by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

377 Moreover, the present invasion was not only an attempt to set aside Jehovah's disposition of Palestine and the long-established rights of Israel: it was also gross ingratitude, a base return for the ancient forbearance of Israel towards her present enemies:— “And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them and destroyed them not—behold how they reward us by coming to dispossess us of Thy possession which Thou hast caused us to possess.”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

Instinctively he felt he hadn't dined recklessly enough to account for these amazing symptoms.
— from The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp

The history of the American fur trade alone makes the Trojan War look like a Punch and Judy show!
— from The River and I by John G. Neihardt

Let them then beware; for the time is near at hand when the present defenders of slavery will sink under the same fatal reputation, and leave to posterity a memory which will blacken through all future time, a legacy of infamy.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier