For, if you should put me to death, you will not easily find such another, though it may be ridiculous to say so, altogether attached by the deity to this city as to a powerful and generous horse, somewhat sluggish from his size, and requiring to be roused by a gad-fly; so the deity appears to have united me, being such a person as I am, to the city, that I may rouse you, and persuade and reprove every one of you, nor ever cease besetting you throughout the whole day.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

some one shouted, and Sam replied, standing up as he did, so that his uniform might be seen.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis

“I shall have one of the servants watch in the hall upstairs,” my brother said.
— from The Messenger of the Black Prince by Thomas A. H. Mawhinney

It is not a little strange that Monsieur D'Aurevilly, the biographer who, in many ways, does seem most perfectly to have understood Mr. Brummell, should belittle to a mere phase that which was indeed the very core of his existence.
— from The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

That his uncle, Macdonald Bhain, should have sent the word to him brought Ranald a sense of responsibility that awakened the man in him, and he knew he would feel himself a boy no more.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

The shoal I wish to point out is the habitual use made by some stupid people of acids, the bad effects of which experience has demonstrated.
— from The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin

Then, when he came to inform Terry that in his opinion he could be of great use to the Estate, he told him also that he was far from being a wealthy man, and that his usefulness must be set off as against the cost of any interest Terry might think fit to confer upon him....
— from Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Poor Athens was quite struck down, and the affairs were chiefly managed by Phocion, who was a thoroughly honest, upright man, but submitted to let the Macedonians dictate to the city, because he did not think the Athenians could make head against them.
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge