Socrates denies that they have any real power, and hence arise the three paradoxes already mentioned.
— from Gorgias by Plato

This speech so affected Dionysius, that he at once threw his arms round Plato and embraced him, admiring his benevolence and loftiness of mind, and treated Æschines well and handsomely. § xxvii.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Oh, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

New regiments, two, and a battalion of a third, have already reached Paris; others shall get in march.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perrywig-pated fellow 44 tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 45 who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; 46 it out-herods Herod: 47 Pray you, avoid it.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

They have a rate per hour or minute.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Take him all round, pard, there never was a bullier man in the mines.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

That is to say, they have a reflective power, and apply to the conception of a thing, of which, in other respects, they affirm nothing, the faculty of cognition in which the conception originates and has its seat.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Thus, the principal occasion of my coming is done away; but it pleased me to make an end of my journey, at once that I might visit the holy and reverential places, whereof this city is full, and your Holiness and that through you I might make manifest, in your presence and consequently in that of the rest of mankind, the marriage contracted be 62 tween Alessandro and myself in the presence of God alone.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Beyond the first smile of recognition—and even that was an hypocrisy, for she thought his arrival rather provoking—Miss Sedley did not once notice Dobbin during his visit.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

When the mistress of the house appeared Roger pulled off his cap politely, and he was such a frank-faced boy that she knew at once that her maid's fears had been unnecessary, though she did not see where the military title came in.
— from Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Slowly roll the golden circles—slowly are they passed from hand to hand, and reluctantly parted with.
— from The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid

The floors in all the halls and rooms, [Pg 273] except those of the salons, are of stone, and little uneven hollows on their surfaces show where the feet of many generations have left their mark.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

It has been said that the only poetry that has any real power over a people is that which is written or composed in their own language.
— from The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis

The lion looked savage, and but for the brave little knight with his pure young face, who seemed to have a restraining power upon both animals, he might have broken the bars and come through the gate and made small bones of the child who had invited them three times to come down and have her!
— from North Cornwall Fairies and Legends by Enys Tregarthen

] for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660 by Samuel Pepys

The first barge going through had a royal progress from Buffalo, arriving at Albany at three minutes before eleven o'clock on the morning of October 26, 1825.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

“The military authorities may want to have a representative present to listen to the talk.
— from The Motor Boys in the Army; or, Ned, Bob and Jerry as Volunteers by Clarence Young

"If I was going to have a regular party I'd invite all the girls in our class—or else none at all."
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long