For although a large share of the credit must perhaps be given to Alexander, as the presiding genius of the whole, though so young a man; yet no less is due to his coadjutors and friends, who won many wonderful victories over the enemy; endured numerous desperate labours, dangers and sufferings; and, though put into possession of the most ample wealth, and the most abundant means of gratifying all their desires, never lost their bodily vigour by these means, or contracted tastes for violence or debauchery.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

These magistrates, being themselves elective, excite no distrust; their powers, like those of most republican magistrates, are very extensive and very arbitrary, and they frequently make use of them to remove unworthy or incompetent jurymen.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And they fell to talking of the last war news, and each concealed from the other his perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the Turks had been beaten, according to the latest news, at all points.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I blacked my face en laid hid in de cellar of a 239 ole house dat’s burnt down, daytimes, en robbed de sugar hogsheads en grain sacks on de wharf, nights, to git somethin’ to eat, en never dast to try to buy noth’n’, en I’s ’mos’ starved.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

I camped at the mouth of a narrow gorge which is cut into the bottom of the main canyon, determined to take earnest exercise next day.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

As this fell very far short of what had been demanded by the English envoys, new demands were made for a more ample authority for the commission, and in view of the danger that threatened the Catholic Church in England, Clement VII.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

Practice these exercises every night during an interval of a month or until relief is secured.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

These magistrates, being themselves elective, excite no distrust: their powers, like those of most republican magistrates, are very extensive and very arbitrary, and they frequently make use of them to remove unworthy or incompetent jurymen.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

The early Ephraimite narratives describe Moses as a prophet rather than as a mere lawgiver.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent

In declaring that one is not a mystic, one makes no claim to be able to explain everything, nor does he maintain that all things are explicable in scientific terms.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

Neither of these writers knew of the English evidence, nor did they solve the mystery of Walter Tirel's wife, whom they, like Lappenberg, imagined to be the daughter of a Richard Giffard.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round