But Cicero discovers the germs of mental cultivation among the Romans long before the period assigned to it by Suetonius, tracing them to the teaching of Pythagoras, who visited the Greek cities on the coast of Italy in the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.—Tusc.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

met with a 2d Chief of the nation from hunting, we Smoked with him and his party and gave a medal of The Small Size & Set out passed great numbers of rocks, good water and Came to at a high point of rocks below the mouth of a Creek which falls in on the Lard Side and head up towards the high Snow mountain to the S W. this Creek is 20 yards wide and has Some beaver Signs at its mouth river about 1/2 a mile wide and Crouded with Sea otters, & drum was Seen this evening we took possession of a high Point of rocks to defend our Selves in Case the threts of those Indians below Should be put in execution against us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I don’t think it’s candles; but of this I be sure, tayn’t waistcoats.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They divined in him—and as it were behind the questionableness of his frail and wretched appearance—the superior force which wished to test itself by such a subjugation; the strength of will, in which they recognized their own strength and love of power, and knew how to honour it: they honoured something in themselves when they honoured the saint.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You have the right to demand that it be shown to you innumerable times.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But while so successful on the continent, his navy was annihilated and communication with the colonies thus cut off; and though it may be doubted whether the French government of that day cherished the colonial ambitions ascribed to it by some, it is certain French commerce was suffering enormously.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Plato, that noble philosopher, advised 49 that boys should be furnished as it were with wings for flight by being mounted on horseback, and should then be taken into battle so that they may be spectators of the warfare in which they must soon be combatants.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I read them in the intervals between study and play with an ever-deepening sense of pleasure.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Her brother would have taken the icon, but she stopped him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then I began: "Sorrow and not disdain Did your condition fix within me so, That tardily it wholly is stripped off, As soon as this my Lord said unto me Words, on account of which I thought within me That people such as you are were approaching.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

The raging storm will surely shiver Full many an oak upon that day; Each palace to its base shall quiver, And many a steeple proud give way.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

I then inquired, by signs, of the Igorrot, the way I should go, in order to join the Christians.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

In the less deteriorated logs the salamanders lived under the loose bark or in small cracks and chambers near the inner bark surface.
— from Natural History of the Salamander, Aneides hardii by Richard F. Johnston

The south-west extreme of the islands bore south 40º west.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

He showed an improvement within twenty-four hours after arriving in the City of the Alamo, and this continued steadily, until the second day out, when the beautiful weather, that they had been having for weeks, was broken by a norther which, however, was not severe, though it brought so much rain and dismal weather that they were compelled to lie by at one of the straggling frontier towns for several days.
— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"Yes—I understand," she assented; and as he bent over to kiss her for goodbye a tenuous impenetrable barrier seemed to lie between their lips.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

Provided, however, that nothing in this Instrument be so construed as to interfere with the right of the Commissioners to negotiate in their own behalf, or that of any other parties, or organization for territory.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

Sir Calidore, envying his eyes a sight which so “enriched” them, left the covert through which he looked, and went towards it:— But soone as he appearèd to their view, They vanisht all away, out of his sight, And cleane were gone, which way he never knew, All save the shepherd; who, for fell despight Of that displeasure, broke his bag-pipe quight, And made great mone for that unhappy turne; But Calidore, though no less sorry wight For that mishap, yet seeing him to mourne, Drew neare, that he the truth of all by him might learne.
— from A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla by Leigh Hunt

The abbot of Lacroma advances; Carlotta and Maximilian drop to their knees as he extends his arms above them in blessing ) Scene II: A camp in the mountains of Mexico.
— from Semiramis, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan