He brought prizes from the ships—cauldrons, tripods, horses and mules, noble oxen, women with fair girdles, and swart iron.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Now this being a common infirmity of body and soul, and such a one that hath as much need of spiritual as a corporal cure, I could not find a fitter task to busy myself about, a more apposite theme, so necessary, so commodious, and generally concerning all sorts of men, that should so equally participate of both, and require a whole physician.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The holy and mysterious nature of man is yet hidden from himself; he is still a stranger to the movements of that inner life, and knows little of its capabilities and powers.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The old labels 'Democrat' and 'Republican' have ceased to have any meaning, not only in my mind and in yours, but I think in the minds of nearly all the people.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Wherefore they have as much need of an advocate as have the youngest and most feeble of the flock.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

“Why,” quoth he, “because thou hast a mighty notion of having things thine own way.”
— from Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

Something more, in a way accounting for all: that the new novice is not the first agneau d'Angleterre he has brought over to Boulogne, and guided into that same fold, more than one of them having ample means, not only to provision themselves, but a surplus for the support of the general sisterhood.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

"So I reckoned," said Ned cannily, "one chance to make t' old man friendly was to put him in t' way o' doing again what he was really scarcely able to do any longer; and that was, to have as many notches on his gaff-stick for dead seals as any other man.
— from Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

Mr. P. said, he thought it necessary, in justice to himself, to make these observations before the House, from a regard which he felt, in common with other gentlemen, for his reputation—more particularly as this matter would appear upon the journals of the House, and might not only reflect upon himself, but upon his children after him; they might be pointed at by the finger of scorn, as the offspring of a man who had betrayed the interests of his country.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

That is, we are supposed to have a moderate number of ‘errors’ before us and we are to undertake to say whereabouts is the centre from which they diverge.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

The horizon, a merely necessary optical limit, a mathematical certainty, a physical injunction upon eyesight, is to youth a line on the threshold of New Worlds, a doorway to all the pleasures that the leaping heart, with wise madness, craves incessantly.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

And for the last time he reviewed his position; told himself that it was not an unworthy cause for which he was contending; that it was not treason, but patriotism, to wish to overthrow the great oligarchy of noble families, who by their federated influence had pulled the wires to every electoral assembly, so that hardly a man not of their own coterie had been elected to high office for many a long year; while the officials themselves had grown full and wanton on the revenues wrung from the score of unfortunate provinces.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

The rich human and social material of the German States—their literary, artistic, and scientific culture, their philosophy, their learning—clustered curiously enough round the hard and military nucleus of the North.
— from The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter