If I received a blow in the course of my duties to Emile, far from avenging it I would boast of it; and I doubt whether there is in the whole world a man so vile as to respect me any the less on this account.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Philo tells us (says Eusebius) that the Essenes forsook father, mother, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, for their religion.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle of Queen Claude’s chamber at Fontainebleau, has behind it an attribute which would have been more in place on a statue of Priapus, and which was the symbol of generativeness.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The following anecdote is from Reminiscences of Wellington and Anecdotes of his Staff , by Lord Wm. Lennox:—“Felton Hervey, of the 14th, who had lost an arm when in pursuit of the enemy flying from Oporto, always mounted himself and his orderly upon English hunters, so as to make his escape should he at any time be unexpectedly surrounded.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Nor did the Templar, an infidel of another stamp, justly characterise his associate, when he said Front-de-Boeuf could assign no cause for his unbelief and contempt for the established faith; for the Baron would have alleged that the Church sold her wares too dear, that the spiritual freedom which she put up to sale was only to be bought like that of the chief captain of Jerusalem, “with a great sum,” and Front-de-Boeuf preferred denying the virtue of the medicine, to paying the expense of the physician.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

When the people of the town learned what had happened, they decided not to go after the enemy for fear they would kill the women, so their made no pursuit.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Her hotel was remarkably sumptuous, and while the most part of the English had quit, or were about to quit, France on account of the war, Milady had just been laying out much money upon her residence; which proved that the general measure which drove the English from France did not affect her.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But they do square, that all their elves for fear Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The greatest part of the tribe were gathered together in that place, and stood silently around to view the criminals, and to witness their expected fate; for now all were acquainted with their guilt and all who were assembled here were indignant at their treachery against their venerable and beloved Sachem, and their scarcely less respected white Chieftain.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

It would, however, be a mistake to adopt this plan where the soil is loose, and during the lifting operation will fall from the roots; and it is also a mistake to expect flowers from newly-planted roots.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Having always occupied the Eastern Front from its formation (beginning of 1917) until March, 1918, the 232d Division was of mediocre combat value (April, 1918).
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

a year, to enable him to go to Italy, and improve himself there: but the unhappy youth had unavoidably contracted some trifling debts, which he was utterly unable to discharge, and his mind was too delicately alive to every finer feeling to bear the thought of leaving this country without paying them.
— from Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts by John Robert Scott

And some of them—I do not say all—forget that there is effort needed to exercise faith for sanctifying; and that our energy has to be put forth in order that a man may, in spite of all resistance, keep himself in the attitude of dependence.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

[10] Staring blankly at all this—particularly at the colossal firearm—the child finally half-rolled and half-tumbled to the earthen floor from the low k'ang on which it had been put to sleep the night before and began tottering towards the door.
— from Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

In 1871, 1876, and 1877 each, notwithstanding the economic chaos and the infinite destruction of capital occasioned by the war, those figures were almost equalled; in 1878 they were surpassed; in 1879 and 1880 each, over 5,000,000 bales were raised; in 1881, 1883, and 1886 each, over 6,000,000, the exact figure for the year last named being 6,550,215.
— from History of the United States, Volume 4 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

He was, too, entirely free from the lust of conquest, as some Indian viceroys have not perhaps been; and he did all his work under a solemn sense of responsibility to God.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle of Queen Claude's chamber at Fontainebleau, has behind it an attribute which would have been more in place on a statue of Priapus, and which was the symbol of generativeness.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by François Rabelais

According to Stiles, 188 the oöcyst divides into two equal ellipsoidal portions or sporoblasts which become spores and then each forms four sporozoites.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald