The three of us could hide comfortably behind the velvet chimney-mantle, and observe all that should happen in the room.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

It will be seen from the foregoing chapters that the Erewhonians are a meek and long-suffering people, easily led by the nose, and quick to offer up common sense at the shrine of logic, when a philosopher arises among them, who carries them away through his reputation for especial learning, or by convincing them that their existing institutions are not based on the strictest principles of morality.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

It is thus our uncertainty concerning any minute circumstance relating to a person encreases our apprehensions of his death or misfortune.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The proprietary of this remark will appear, the moment it is recollected that the objection under consideration turns upon a supposed necessity of restraining the LEGISLATIVE authority of the nation, in the article of military establishments; a principle unheard of, except in one or two of our State constitutions, and rejected in all the rest.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Let them sleep, the two of us can manage.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is true that outwardly they appear to acknowledge a God; for they have set up in a niche an image of God the Father, which they have stolen from some church, and before which they come daily to offer up certain prayers; but this is only because they superstitiously imagine that by this means they are released from the necessity of performing the duties of Christians to their pastor and their parish, and are even absolved from the sin of entering a church for the purpose of robbery and purse-cutting."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is not, cannot even conceive of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world?
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

] In the fall and the sack of great cities, an historian is condemned to repeat the tale of uniform calamity: the same effects must be produced by the same passions; and when those passions may be indulged without control, small, alas!
— 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

And always there was the economical stuffiness of indoor winter, and the long summers, nightmares of perspiration between sticky enveloping walls... dirty restaurants where careless, tired people helped themselves to sugar with their own used coffee-spoons, leaving hard brown deposits in the bowl.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Scipio answered, that though he was come into Africa for conquest, and not for peace, he would, nevertheless, grant them one, upon condition, that they should deliver up all the Roman prisoners and deserters; that they should recal their armies out of Gaul and Italy; that they should never set foot again in Spain; that they should retire out of all the islands between Italy and Africa; that they should deliver up all their ships except twenty; give the Romans five hundred thousand bushels of wheat; three hundred thousand of barley; and, moreover, pay to the Romans fifteen thousand talents.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

She was the only person of the old upper class that remained on the spot, if I rightly recollect.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

But gems, properly so called, though they sometimes have veins of their own, are still for the most part found in mines and rock quarries, as the lodestone in iron mines, the emery in silver mines, the lapis judaicus , trochites , and the like in stone quarries where the diggers, at the bidding of the owners, usually collect them from the seams in the rocks.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

The Captain came up too, and there were the three of us clinging to the lightning conductor with one arm, glasses in the other, and our feet on the empty oil drum we had fixed up there as a crow’s-nest.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

"That is true; our unhappy cousin commanded at the pueblo.
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

The next step was to open up communications with the Seer of Katib, who, according to the astrologer, possessed the Girdle.
— from The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

“Cavalier, Puritan, and poor Jack here, we all love the same lady, and here be two of us clapping palms together to kill the third.”
— from The Lady of Loyalty House: A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

On the eighth day they proceeded on their way, ascending the banks of the Phasis, not the celebrated river of that name, but probably the one usually called Araxes.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith