Without hesitation, I identified his dominant qualities—self–confidence, since his head reared like a nobleman's above the arc formed by the lines of his shoulders, and his black eyes gazed with icy assurance; calmness, since his skin, pale rather than ruddy, indicated tranquility of blood; energy, shown by the swiftly knitting muscles of his brow; and finally courage, since his deep breathing denoted tremendous reserves of vitality.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

These things being premised, and such being the government, it follows that such rules as the following should be observed in it, that all the magistrates should be chosen out of all the people, and all to command each, and each in his turn all: that all the magistrates should be chosen by lot, except to those offices only which required some particular knowledge and skill: that no census, or a very small one, should be required to qualify a man for any office: that none should be in the same employment twice, or very few, and very seldom, except in the army: that all their appointments should be limited to a very short time, or at least as many as possible: that the whole community should be qualified to judge in all causes whatsoever, let the object be ever so extensive, ever so interesting, or of ever so high a nature; as at Athens, where the people at large judge the magistrates when they come out of office, and decide concerning public affairs as well as private contracts: that the supreme power should be in the public assembly; and that no magistrate should be allowed any discretionary power but in a few instances, and of no consequence to public business.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

However, Alcidas gave this proposal as bad a reception as the other, being eager, since he had come too late for Mitylene, to find himself back in Peloponnese as soon as possible.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Each sought advance towards a better light, one part by dwelling on the individual duties and responsibilities of man, and his relation to the infinite; the other by especial study of man's social ties and liberties, and his relation to the commonwealth of which he is a member.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But this farre, which I haue yet said, I not onelie take it to be true in their opiniones, but euen so to be indeede.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

Meanwhile Brak, and those who had broken in with him, snatched up the goods of the king, and got them on board Erik's ships.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The one big egg she quickly turns to three; Nor was this all: to many startled faces Another chatterer makes the number four.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

“How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress,” said an old knight.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In other instances the effects are less injurious to the structure of the organ, but equally so to the sense of vision: the cornea becomes dull, and ultimately opaque, or ulcerates, or partially sloughs; the swollen conjunctival surface of the lids is covered with granulations, and secretes a copious puriform discharge, with or without eversion, according to the degree of swelling.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

At the Miramichi River the flames nearly leapt across the narrow channel, and thousands of burning embers speedily ignited the timber on the other side.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

And Callistes to her beneath, As she to our beams, extinct, Strained arms: he was shade of her shade.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

They passed the first turn in the winding road and came out from behind a fairy curtain of drooping elm boughs into full view of the river and the orchards, before either spoke.
— from Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Colonial Series ON THE TRAIL OF PONTIAC OR THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE OHIO BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER Author of "With Washington in the West," "Lost on the Orinoco," "Two Young Lumbermen," "American Boys' Life of William McKinley," "Old Glory Series," "Ship and Shore Series," etc.
— from On the Trail of Pontiac; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio by Edward Stratemeyer

[the farmer] gathereth and laieth vp in all his yeares, it is often seene, that the landlord will take such order with him for the same, when he renueth his lease, which is commonlie eight or six yeares before the old be expired (sith it is now growen almost to a custome, that if he come not to his lord so long before, another shall step in for a reuersion, and so defeat him out right) that it shall neuer trouble him more than the haire of his beard, when the barber hath washed and shaued it from his skin.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

—Drab or black satin, three shades of crimson, two of brown, three of green, three shades of amber, and two of blue embroidery silk or chenille.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

But before the final tragedy there might, if skilfully thought out, be endless shades of moral torture; and the kugés, squatting in a row, crumpled their foreheads and stared at the gold ceiling in the delightful travail of conception.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield