The honour of the army is more precious to us than any other honour, yet we don’t screen our guilty members, but condemn them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then, of the nine and a half parts let one and a half be reserved for the height of the abacus, and let the other eight be used for the volutes.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Enough that never more under these names did they again appear in the homes of their ancestors.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

As any references to that most important undertaking demands a separate chapter, we may devote the few lines which remain at the close of this, to narrate, with great brevity, the history of the antiquarian discovery.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Wilt not thou destroy this wicked wild beast, which hath pretended kindness to his father, in order to destroy his brethren; while yet he is himself alone ready to carry off the kingdom immediately, and appears to be the most bloody butcher to him of them all?
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

One of these customs is, that after the service on the Sabbath and on feast days, the children approach the parents, who lay their hands on them and bless them.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He must have something to hold on to and believe, and someone to believe in.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Square imperial 16mo, cloth extra, 7 s. 6 d. “He would answer to Hi! or to any loud cry, To What-you-may-call-’em, or What was his name; But especially Thingamy-jig.”
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

uncertain the quick Sand Moveing we had a fine wind, but could not make use of it, our Mast being broke, we passed between 2 Small Islands in the Middle of the Current, & round the head of three a rapid Current for one mile and Camped on the S. S. opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Mr Venus admitted that he had never known those distinguished persons, and added, in effect, that he had never so much as desired the honour of their acquaintance.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This very significant opposition of the thumb to the fingers, furnishing the complete grasp by the hand, is characteristic of the human race, and is wanting in the hand of the ape, chimpanzee, and ourang-outang.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

The heat of the Arabian late summer, and the fatigues and privations of the journey (on which even the Caliph must often have had to content himself with very indifferent drinking water), can only have aggravated the malady in a man now somewhat advanced in years, if they did not even occasion it.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

I’ll go to the inn or lodge or whatever they have out there, and see you every day.”
— from The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells

He opened his eyes, all trembling with cold, and saw the priest at the foot of the bed saying the prayers for the dying, and the hands of the actual clock pointing to a quarter past nine.
— from The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas

The sultan was publicly received in the hall of the Audiencia, where the governor promised to lay his case before the King of Spain.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

Early in the day the King sent twenty squadrons of horse to meet disaster at the hands of the Austrian gunners, and later the Prussian infantry showed that they were still the men of Mollwitz and of Soor.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

For this reason some apology seems necessary for the heading of this article.
— from Birds of the Plains by Douglas Dewar

A certain class of printed leaves—those in which Chang-ch’un did not insert purchased mentions of his forthcoming ventures or verses recording his virtues (in return for buying many examples of the printed leaf containing them)—took frequent occasion of reminding persons that Chang-ch’un owed the beginning of his prosperity to finding a written parchment connected with a Mandarin of exalted rank and a low caste attendant at the Ti-i tea-house among the paper heaps, which it was at that time his occupation to assort into various departments according to their quality and commercial value.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

Perceiving their hesitation, and remembering what Fleur-de-Marie had told him about the slightly uncivilized tastes of La Louve and her husband, he offered them either a considerable amount of money, or the half of this amount, and lands in the vicinity of the farm which he had bought for the Slasher.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue