They wer led into the place ful evene: Ther they herden Aungeles off Hevene : They sayde : 'SEYNYORS, TUEZ, TUEZ!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

c. They had a thousand pretexts for establishing taxes on their vassals, who were generally considered "taxable and to be worked at will."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The delight of ease had now succeeded to pain; for ease may be allowed to assume a positive quality when contrasted with anguish; and, his spirits thus re-animated, he wished to partake of the conversation of St. Aubert and Emily, who, released from so many apprehensions, were uncommonly cheerful.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Or shall some poet who has found his way into the city, or some chance person who pretends to be an instructor of youth, show himself to be better than him who has won the prize for every virtue?
— from Laws by Plato

Gregorius and his men cut down the gates of the yard; and there in the port fell Einar, a son of Laxapaul, who was of Sigurd's people, together with Halvard Gunnarson, who was shot in a loft, and nobody lamented his death.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Soiled waiters ran to and fro, swooping down like hawks on the unwary in the throng; clattering along the aisles with trays covered with glasses; stumbling over women's skirts and charging two prices for everything but beer, all with a swiftness that blurred the view of the cocoanut palms and dusty monstrosities painted upon the walls of the room.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

" He was at Mr. Letterblair's punctually at seven, glad of the pretext for excusing himself soon after dinner.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The worst tenement abominations of New York do not have above twenty-two persons for every ten rooms.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Pyrrhic ⏑ ⏑ Amphibrach ⏑ – ⏑ Antibacchīus or Palimbacchīus – – ⏑ Molossus – – –1> Dispondee – – – –1> Ditrochee – ⏑ – ⏑ Diiambus ⏑ – ⏑ –1> Antispast ⏑ – – ⏑ Second Paeon ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ Third Paeon ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ First Epitrite ⏑ – – –1> Second Epitrite – ⏑ – –1> Third Epitrite – – ⏑ –1> Fourth Epitrite – – – ⏑ 457
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

To penetrate into the depths of the nature of things, and to separate true perception from error and illusion, appeared to the Socratic man the noblest and even the only truly human calling: just as from the time of Socrates onwards the mechanism of concepts, judgments, and inferences was prized above all other capacities as the highest activity and the most admirable gift of nature.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And Judge Douglas goes on to comment upon the fact of Trumbull's adducing in his Alton speech the proposition that the bill not only came back with that proposition stricken out, but with another clause and another provision in it, saying that "until the complete execution of this Act there shall be no election in said Territory,"—which, Trumbull argued, was not only taking the provision for submitting to a vote of the people out of the bill, but was adding an affirmative one, in that it prevented the people from exercising the right under a bill that was merely silent on the question.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

He said, forty or fifty years afterwards, "It gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life."
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer

Fly sloop of war, and the packet from England, came in and brought the news of the war between France and Spain.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

An Act was therefore passed forbidding English subjects to hold any intercourse orally, or by writing, or by message, with the exiled family.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I might quote pages to the point from "Every Woman's Book," but I fear my communication would be too lengthy.
— from Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton

Stringent laws to protect from encroachments by whites.
— from Alden's Handy Atlas of the World Including One Hundred and Thirty-eight Colored Maps, Diagrams, Tables, Etc. by John B. (John Berry) Alden

Rhode Island protested, declaring that only in this way could she be paid for her exports to the West Indies and thus be able to purchase from England.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

Imagine a long gallery divided into small cabinets by partitions, which advance only so far from the outer wall as to leave a commodious passage along its entire extent; imagine also that each of these cabinets has a lofty window, and that on its side walls (the partitions) are suspended the paintings for exhibition,—and you will form something like a notion of the general arrangement.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

Thus the country may be rid of a man so pernicious; or at any rate he will be held in perpetual fear, and therefore prevented from executing leisurely his designs."
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley