Educators and educational politicians declare, amid warm cheers, that cleanliness is far more important than all the squabbles about moral and religious training.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The people were eager to annul their sentence against Marcius, and to beg him to return, but the Senate, after meeting and considering this proposal, finally rejected it, either out of a mere spirit of opposition to anything proposed by the people, or because they did not wish him to return by favour of the people; or it may be because they themselves were now angry with him for having shown himself the enemy of all classes alike, although he had only been injured by one, and for having become the avowed enemy of his country, in which he knew that the best and noblest all sympathised with him, and had suffered along with him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

They almost throw stones at me and ride rough-shod over me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Therefore, being free from envy, He desired that all things should, as much as possible, resemble Himself."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

3340 The modern Tamseh, according to Shaw and Mannert, and Tagodet, according to D’Anville.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often passing between them and the spectacle, and making a barrier behind which they slunk, and through which they peeped.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

He thinks that much of our misfortune hath been for want of an active Lord Treasurer, and that such a man as Sir W. Coventry would do the business thoroughly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When he saw us, he came forward a step with his usual heavy tread, and there stopped and made a slight bow.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“They were too taken aback to say anything more at first,” he narrated steadily, “and what could I have to say to them?”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He gave a quick glance at Sarréo, then at the skipper and myself, and sat down quietly.
— from Sarréo 1901 by Louis Becke

No sooner did he land, with loosened muscles to avoid the shock as much as he could, than the package of heavy books landed beside him.
— from The Mystery Crash Sky Scout Series, #1 by Van Powell

Hasten then, that all these sad apprehensions may at once be banished.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A second term—the honour, the approval, the country's weal—might sink into the Pit rather than that he would blacken his soul even by tacit assent to such a monstrous, awful lie!
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

Now, they were so changed in looks that I scarcely knew them, and they stared at me as at a stranger.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

Often she sat for hours at home, among her [Pg 15] thorns and thistles, sobbing and moaning, and at such times the common folks believed that the whole district would be visited by a hailstorm.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai