When Cæsar had heard these pleadings, he dissolved the assembly; but a few days afterwards he appointed Archelaus, not indeed to be king of the whole country, but ethnarch of the one half of that which had been subject to Herod, and promised to give him the royal dignity hereafter, if he governed his part virtuously.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

On being informed that I should be set free on the feast-day of my patron saint, and thinking that my informant ought to know for certain what he told me, I felt glad to have a patron-saint.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Others again, like survival, are quite indeterminate in their consequences, and leave us in the lurch where we most need their help: a philosopher of the Sioux Nation, for example, will be certain to use the survival-criterion in a very different way from ourselves.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

So home and to my chamber about sending an express to Portsmouth about Balty’s money, and then comes Mrs. Turner to enquire after her son’s business, which goes but bad, which led me to show her how false Sir W. Pen is to her, whereupon she told me his obligations to her, and promises to her, and how a while since he did show himself dissatisfied in her son’s coming to the table and applying himself to me, which is a good nut, and a nut I will make use of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Its actions are insane like its whole constitution; it persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They had a proverb in the Carpathians in or about the year five thousand five hundred and fifty of our era.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Isocrates is still young, Phaedrus; but I am willing to hazard a prophecy concerning him.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

to humble, abase, Phi. 2.8; mid. to descend to, or live in, a humble condition, 2 Co. 11.7; Phi. 4.12; to humble, depress the pride of any one, Mat. 18.4; mid. to humble one's self, exhibit humility and contrition, Ja. 4.10; to humble with respect to hopes and expectations, to depress with disappointment, 2 Co. 12.21: whence Ταπείνωσις, εως, ἡ, depression; meanness, low estate, abject condition, Lu. 1.48.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

“It’s always a good thing to have a pin about one.” Gavroche persisted:— “What are you up to to-night?”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Those princes, whom the ostentation of gratitude or generosity permitted for a while to hold a precarious sceptre, were dismissed from their thrones, as soon as they had per formed their appointed task of fashioning to the yoke the vanquished nations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The light which lured her into this desolate structure came from a lamp standing on a small table at the rear of the hall, and presently she found herself insensibly approaching it, having recognized it as one she had often seen in the doctor’s study.
— from Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green

The machine was hopelessly smashed and the pilot was dead when they ran and came to him and picked him up.
— from Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable

Then an idea came happily to my mind, I would fetch my donkey and cart, and so endeavour to get him by a circuitous route to the house and put him to bed.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

Finally, they had all passed—Rajpoot, Sikh, Pathan, Afridi, Jat, Hazura, Gurkha, Dogra, Multani, Madrassee, Baluchi, Dekani—and, after a great cheer for the Emperor of India and to the strains of the [Pg 398] National Anthem and personal cheering of another kind, the Queen and Princess of Wales drove from the grounds followed by the Prince and the rest of the Royal family.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

Now, however, 'unlike' became the watchword of Aetius and Eunomius, and their followers delighted to shock all sober feeling by the harshest and profanest declarations of it.
— from The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

I knew of their use on one occasion in our Civil War to hide and preserve the safe-conduct of a spy.”
— from A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

Another time, he and Pinchbacke and Dr. Goffe, [Dr. Gough, Clerk of the Queen's Closet, and her Assistant Confessor.] now a religious man:— Pinchbacke did begin a frolick to drink out of a glass with a toad in it: he did it without harm.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

" Again, a correspondent (a man of science) tells me of a friend who lately, when dining out, met a girl, the daughter of a country vicar; he was not specially attracted to her and paid her no special attention.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

He had come from Ploszow to consult with one of the physicians who at some time had attended Pani Celina.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Then, as one part of his mind drew back in terror at what it knew was about to happen, another part wondered at the mystery of Thone and the people in it.
— from Wheels Within by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet