This year the temple of Mars, vowed in the Gallic war, was dedicated by Titus Quinctius, duumvir for performing religious rites.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

As it illustrates several new points about these wax figures, and as such charms are exceedingly rare and all but impossible to obtain, I here give a word for word translation of the whole text, the original Malay version of which will be found in the Appendix: 254 — “This refers to making images to harm people.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"That's just what I cried at the top of my voice, 'How so?' Gentlemen, there was a ringing in my ears.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But, the expedition having been unfortunate, my service, it seems, was not thought of much value, for those recommendations were never of any use to me.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

And though there should be now more men found than in former times worthy of our order, the estimation of it nevertheless should not be abated, nor the honour made cheap; and it may easily happen that more may merit it; for there is no virtue that so easily spreads as that of military valour.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Bowed under the overmantel, Mr Verloc, holding his head in both hands, seemed to have gone to sleep.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

They sailed southwards to the Jutland coast, to a place called Sudervik, where they overcame many viking ships.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The sole difference betwixt an absolute darkness and the appearance of two or more visible luminous objects consists, as I said, in the objects themselves, and in the manner they affect our senses.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Don't you understand that one might very well dislike him, apart from Katerina Ivanovna.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 414] No. 10. TRADE OF MONTE VIDEO.
— from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt by Parish, Woodbine, Sir

This information with respect to the Mandans was obtained at the old Mandan Village in the Upper Missouri, in 1862, from Joseph Kip, whose mother was a Mandan woman.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

III, 21. V, 19; ains... anþar , the one ... the other ; Mt. VI, 24; sum...anþaruþ þan , sum ... sum ; Mk.
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

O dueñas, born and used for the perdition of thousands of modest, virtuous beings!
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes , by H. G. Wells, is an interesting example of this new scientific transference of magic vision.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

And those noble, those prominent figures, the sons and daughters of other days, who played their various parts in the great drama of Irish life and patriotism—we shall read of them, and though of many, very many, we must feel that in this world we shall never meet again, yet we know that in leaving, they have but gone a short time before us to enjoy in heaven that reward, which hearts so good and pure as theirs were, shall surely receive.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Here and there three lamps, rivalling rushlights, made the obscurity more visible, and the carpentry more in­com­pre­hen­sible.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage

But anxiety and fatigue had struck to the gentlest, the kindest of hearts; and she to whom I twice owed my life, was removed from me before I had even a thought of my vast debt of gratitude.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

“I shall help you to believe it when I tell you more,” said Mr. Pendril—“you will understand me better when I take you back to the time of Mr. Vanstone’s early life.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

At the time of my visit great [110] complaints were made of the scarcity of provisions, but it is impossible to feel much commiseration for the starving condition of the poor people, when it is known that it is entirely owing to their own want of industry that sufficient crops of mandiocca are not raised, not only for their own consumption, but for exportation to other parts of the country.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner