Winners of certain great races generally carry penalties in addition to WEIGHT-FOR-AGE , for the purpose of equalizing matters somewhat; but as a rule the results are fairly foreshadowed as soon as in these races the horses are at the post, or as soon as the starters are positively known.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

For, as the Romans are fighting for country and children, it is impossible for them to relax the fury of their struggle; but they persist with obstinate resolution until they have overcome their enemies.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It is not in passive feeling, but in action, that the good and evil of the rational animal formed for society consists.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

“You know,” says he, “the children of Israel, though they rejoiced at first for their being delivered out of Egypt, yet rebelled even against God Himself, that delivered them, when they came to want bread in the wilderness.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

From hence it is, that in all Dominions, where the Popes Ecclesiasticall power is entirely received, Jewes, Turkes, and Gentiles, are in the Roman Church tolerated in their Religion, as farre forth, as in the exercise and profession thereof they offend not against the civill power: whereas in a Christian, though a stranger, not to be of the Roman Religion, is Capitall; because the Pope pretendeth that all Christians are his Subjects.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

About this there was just then rather a ferment, for it seems that the Professor had written an article in the leading university magazine, which was well known to be by him, and which abounded in all sorts of plausible blunders.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

She one day, during this period, observed the Shi'ichs busily employed in mixing various ingredients in a boiling caldron, and as soon as the composition was prepared, she remarked that they all carefully anointed their eyes with it, laying the remainder aside for future use.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I sniffed at the brim, and there rose a faint fragrance of thyme and heather honey and the sweet things of the moorland.
— from The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan

till the ruffled air Falls from its poise, and gives the breeze to blow."
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

Knight of the rainbow; a footman: from being commonly clothed in garments of different colours.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

The Weather Bureau established a special service to take care of this region and for five years there has not been a single non-avoidable loss.
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

In other circumstances I took the liberty of a versifier to run away from fact into fancy, like a school-boy who never dreams that he is a truant when he rambles on a holiday from school.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

The dog laid himself in the road and fell fast asleep, and as he lay there a waggoner came up with a waggon and three horses, laden with two casks of wine; the sparrow, seeing that he was not going to turn aside but kept in the beaten track, just where the dog lay, cried out, "Waggoner, take care, or you shall suffer for it!"
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Ditlinde made as if to run away from fright: but Klaus Heinrich would not let go her hand, and they stood with starting eyes waiting for what was coming.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

Other streams are useful in some degree for timber rafting and for floating agricultural products downstream.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

Magdaléna dragged her shaking limbs across the room and felt for a chair.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I hurried to the room and found five male moths fluttering before the screen or clinging to the wild grape and sweet brier vines covering it.
— from Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter