But oft the rich expected gain Which heedless men pursue in vain, The sage, who prudent counsels know, Explain and in a moment show.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He knows by experience that rhetoric exercises great influence over other men, but he is unable to explain the puzzle how rhetoric can teach everything and know nothing.
— from Gorgias by Plato

But Ramusio exhibits both the true reading and the perversion: " E li Tartari la chiamano Regina delle pelli" (there is the true reading), " E gli animali si chiamano Rondes" (and there the perverted one).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In describing the discontent in distant provinces under brutal pro-consuls, which contributed largely to the final disintegration of the Roman Empire, Gibbon says: The cry of remote distress is ever faintly heard.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

For this reason every great “medicine” is usually kept apart in a hut or tipi built for the purpose, very much as we are accustomed to store explosives at some distance from the dwelling or business house.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Brahman woman had all along suspected from a thousand little circumstances that her sister-in-law was not a human being but a Rakshasi; but her suspicion had not yet ripened into certainty, for the Rakshasi exercised great self-restraint on herself, and never did anything which human beings did not do.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

But there is more than this; this relationship even goes as far as a complete identification.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

They were wild, bold, ravenous; their red eyes glaring upon me as if they waited but for motionlessness on my part to make me their prey.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

By the Rev. E. Gilliat , Author of “Asylum Christi.”
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

That my object is to remember everything gradually, and so omit nothing.
— from Happy-Thought Hall by F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Lo, the two red eyes glaring in increasing distance, and then the very train itself has gone to bed before we are off!
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

Government efforts to achieve a "zero deficit," to stabilize the banking system, and to restore economic growth proved inadequate in the face of the mounting economic problems.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Now, before we get to that, what I would like to have you do for me is tell me about what I will describe in my words, and you use your own, the Russian emigre group or community or society in Dallas at or along about that time.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission