The king, then, more troubled at heart than in looks or speech, answered, saying, 'Wife, seem I not to you man enough to have been here a first time and to come yet again after that?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[579] Exceeding , he says, because the transgression is more heinous when through the increasing lust of sin the law itself also is despised.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Fear not that I shall watch, with servile shame, Th’ imperious looks of some proud Grecian dame; Or, stooping to the victor’s lust, disgrace
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Then again there is Lysanias of Sphettus, who is the father of Aeschines—he is present; and also there is Antiphon of Cephisus, who is the father of Epigenes; and there are the brothers of several who have associated with me.
— from Apology by Plato

What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"Somewhat similar may be seen in the disposition to idolize those great lawgivers of man's race, who have given expression, in the immortal language of song, to the deeper inspirations of our nature.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The highest peak of our Parnassus is, according to these gentlemen, by far the most thickly settled portion of the country, a circumstance which must make it an uncomfortable residence for individuals of a poetical temperament, if love of solitude be, as immemorial tradition asserts, a necessary part of their idiosyncrasy.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

30 Note 28 ( return ) [ A medal is still extant, which exhibits the pleasing countenance of Honoria, with the title of Augusta; and on the reverse, the improper legend of Salus Reipublicoe round the monogram of Christ.
— 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

For these nations which he names Gog and Magog are not to be understood of some barbarous nations in some part of the world, whether the Getæ and Massagetæ, as some conclude from the initial letters, or some other foreign nations not under the Roman government.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Sooner or later the irrevocable law of supply and demand must operate to place the whole matter of the compensation of labor upon a more scientific basis.
— from Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager by Charles De Lano Hine

It was two inches long or so—rather bent in the middle, with one end sharp and bright, as if from a sharp fracture or being cut by a pair of pliers—the other end blunt and jagged.
— from The Atlantic Telegraph (1865) by Russell, William Howard, Sir

"The indescribable look of suffering for others," noted one who met him now after a ten years' interval, "has disappeared, and he is now a man full of experience, patience, and hope."
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

—The muscular coat, which is thicker in the arteries than in the veins and is more marked in small arteries than in large ones, serves two important purposes.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

"A few, they say, but there is lots of seals—plenty of 'em on the rocks in the bay."
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

They say: "By an arrangement with the Commissary General, we are clearing out the Government depôts of provisions, by orders on them in lieu of so much money.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

“To remedy this imposition the citizens sent to Thomas Butt and John Ymme, their burgesses in Parliament, then held at Winchester, to complain of the usage to the King and Parliament; upon which the King afterwards directed his writ to the said Simon, certifying him, that by the grants of his progenitors, Kings of England, the citizens held the city and all the waste ground by fee-farm, in inheritance, and that therefore he had nothing to do to molest them in letting out such void grounds to be built upon for their profit and advantage towards paying their [401] fee-farm.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

He who would build his fame up high, The rule and plummet must apply, Nor say, ‘I’ll do what I have plann’d,’ Before he try if loam or sand Be still remaining in the place Delved for each polisht pillar’s base.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Her husband granted her a bright and fresh perfection of form and color, but desiderated any appetizing tang, and lamented, in his phrase, a certain kinship to the impeccable loveliness of some female saint in a jaunty tapestry; bright as ice in sunshine, just so her beauty chilled you, he complained: and moreover, this daughter of the Caesars had been fetched into England, chiefly, to breed him children, and this she had never done.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell