It seems, then, to me that in this question, whether the wise man is subject to mental passions, or wholly free from them, the controversy is one of words rather than of things; for I think that, if the reality and not the mere sound of the words is considered, the Stoics hold precisely the same opinion as the Platonists and Peripatetics.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

then to go off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to meddle further in the matter.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Casting a rapid glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing first of one and then of another priest.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

That is the remedy, and not the dream of the Utopian, or the Socialist, or the mad result of anarchy and crime.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Another is that, while nearly all the lines in the United States have been steadily substituting solid roadbeds, heavy equipment, and other modern facilities for the light and ineffective appliances formerly in use, these lines, because of the constant drain to which they were subject for the obligations assumed, and from the necessities of the Terminal Company for the payment to it, as dividends, of every available dollar with which to meet its own obligations, have not been in a financial condition to keep up to the times in this respect, and now they find themselves so far behind as to be, to a considerable extent, unqualified to handle business with economy, or to compete successfully with other lines.”
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

And I wish the reader to take notice that in the writing of it I have made a recreation of a recreation; and that it might prove so to thee in the reading, and not to read dully and tediously, I have in several places mixed some innocent mirth; of which if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge....
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

It cannot be claimed, therefore, that this is “The Recoil” as now taught by Palmer, since the chief stress is here laid upon the movement of the vertebra in a predetermined direction and not upon the withdrawal of the hands to let “Innate” do the work.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

Trout in those regions are not timid.
— from Over the Rocky Mountains: Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Now as to the forest of flying buttresses, those sloping bars of stone carried on stone arches, which surround the clearstory, the only purpose of these is to receive and neutralize the thrust of the vaults within.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

And I wish the Reader also to take notice, that in writing of it, I have made a recreation, of a recreation; and that it might prove so to thee in the reading, and not to read dull , and tediously , I have in severall places mixt some innocent Mirth; of which, if thou be a severe, sowr complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent Judg.
— from The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton

In 1858, another dog, a male of the same breed, was thrown into the Rapids, also near the middle of the bridge.
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

"OH, YOU AWFUL BOY—YOU'VE LEFT THE TACKS IN THE ROAD, AND NOW THE TANK'LL GET A PUNCTURE."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 by Various