Did the Romans at all harm those nations, on whom, when subjugated, they imposed their laws, except in as far as that was accomplished with great slaughter in war?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

To this add the fact of the inherent prejudice against colored people, and it will be clearly seen that a white jury is certain to find a Negro prisoner guilty if there is the least evidence to warrant such a finding.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

‘Began to—’ ‘To be so thoughtful and dejected, and to forget our old way of spending the time in the long evenings,’ said the child.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Il est aussi l'un des deux directeurs de publication de Language today, un magazine en ligne de référence pour les linguistes: traducteurs, interprètes, terminologues, lexicographes et rédacteurs techniques.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

These, whenever a corpse is conveyed to them, show to those who brought it wooden models of corpses made like reality by painting, and the best of the ways of embalming they say is that of him whose name I think it impiety to mention when speaking of a matter of such a kind; the second which they show is less good than this and also less expensive; and the third is the least expensive of all.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

For hither fly the asapheis that inhabit that land, either when they are in danger of passing their time scurvily for want of belly-timber, being unable, or, what’s more likely, unwilling to take heart of grace and follow some honest lawful calling, or too proud-hearted and lazy to go to service in some sober family.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Thus in the Levitical economy of the Israelites the priests always wore the abnet, or linen apron, or girdle, as a part of the investiture of the priesthood.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The order of publication there was not the same as that in the Last Essays of Elia ; one of the papers, "That a Deformed Person is a Lord," was not reprinted by Lamb at all (it will be found in Vol.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

—Saint Augustine says that about unbaptised children going to hell, Temple answered, because he was a cruel old sinner too. —I bow to you, Dixon said, but I had the impression that limbo existed for such cases. —Don’t argue with him, Dixon, Cranly said brutally.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The capacious war powers of the Constitution are invoked, and it is said that in their legitimate exercise Slavery may be destroyed.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

You then place these upon the table and proceed to pick them up one at a time with the right hand, and throw them into the left (each time closing that hand) as follows: The first is thrown in quite fairly, the second one is also thrown in but is secretly accompanied by the one which you have previously concealed at the finger-tips, the third one you pick up and apparently throw away, but really retaining it at the finger-tips as above mentioned.
— from More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings by Hercat

The day after the departure of Helen, Bruce became impatient to take the field; and, to indulge this laudable eagerness, Wallace set forth with him to meet the returning steps of Ruthven and his gathered legions.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

We need scarcely add, that in these learned exhibitions he dealt largely in false quantities, and took a course for himself altogether independent of syntax and prosody; this, however, was no argument against his natural talents, or the surprising force of his memory.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 48, May 29, 1841 by Various

Kristian gave Arne so many books that he ceased to be like the rest of us; they sat together in the long evenings, and when Kristian went away, my boy longed to follow him.
— from Arne; Early Tales and Sketches Patriots Edition by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

English rulers of that day, terrified by what they heard, may be really said to have lost their heads, for they adopted such tyrannical measures for repressing sedition and treason, that Charles James Fox said in reference to the trials of Muir and Palmer in Scotland, that if the law enforced there should be brought into England, it would be high time for “him and his friends to settle their affairs and retire to some happier clime.”
— from Congregationalism in the Court Suburb by John Stoughton

It drinks, generally at least, at founts of beauty of quite another character; the ideal is nothing to it; the living expression [816] of reality in its every imperfection, of the revolting, of the hideous, such is the task which it imposes on itself; emotion, such its aim—a surprising strangeness of imagery, novelty of expression, peculiarity of character, harshness of pictures, harmony of rhyme replacing harmony of thought—behold its means of success.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

To come to the truth we should have to interrogate the late empress, and ask her some such question as: "Are you well pleased to have died suddenly?"
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 25: Russia and Poland by Giacomo Casanova

I am aware that these points of view are often difficult to reconcile; that, for instance, 'æsthetic' in the essay on Tchehov has a much narrower meaning than it bears in 'The Function of Criticism'; that the essay on 'The Religion of Rousseau' is criticism of a kind which I deprecate as insufficient in the essay, 'The Cry in the Wilderness,' because it lacks that reference to life as a whole which I have come to regard as essential to criticism; and that in this latter essay I use the word 'moral' (for instance in the phrase 'The values of literature are in the last resort moral') in a sense which is never exactly defined.
— from Aspects of Literature by John Middleton Murry

Neeshnepahkeeook then informed us, that they could not accompany us, as we wished, to the Missouri; but that in the latter end of the summer they meant to cross the mountain and spend the winter to the eastward.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark