All those things of which the age is proud,—as, for instance, far-famed "objectivity," "sympathy with all that suffers," "the historical sense," with its subjection to foreign tastes, with its lying-in-the-dust before petits faits, and the rage for science,—are shown to be the contradiction of the type recommended, and are regarded as almost ill-bred.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He was attended by a body of cavalry: but having stopped on the road for some necessary occasion, his guards preserved a respectful distance, and Martialis, approaching his person under a presence of duty, stabbed him with a dagger.
— 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

The reason for such destruction is plain.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In addition to these points of distraction, Wardle was intrusted with two small letters to two small young ladies who were to act as bridesmaids; upon the receipt of which, the two young ladies were driven to despair by having no ‘things’ ready for so important an occasion, and no time to make them in—a circumstance which appeared to afford the two worthy papas of the two small young ladies rather a feeling of satisfaction than otherwise.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And therewithal Sir Tristram rode forth sore wounded to the lady, and found her abiding him at a postern.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In the Elizabethan Age of mighty glory, three hundred years before this was said, Ben Jonson had railed against money as "a thin membrane of honor," groaning: "How hath all true reputation fallen since money began to have any!"
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And,— ‘As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of them has dropped out of the string and falls from the rock, fly shrilling and cling to one another, so did they with shrilling cry hold together as they moved 7 .’ B Such tales to be rejected.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The Page 114 {114} proper course, as in the previous ending, is to bring the Rooks forward, so that at least one of them may be able to shift from one side of the board to the other, and thus keep Black's Rooks from moving freely.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

A grave, on which to rest from singing? Choose.
— from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

and they should be tellin’ of the Che’msford coach as come in without the driver, and he fallen down on the road, frozen stiff as a sparrow.”
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

He knew that the men had placed those slats along the roof for some purpose, and that there was a way to escape from the roof he did not doubt, so he determined to find it.
— from Wizard Will, the Wonder Worker by Prentiss Ingraham

This idea has been a powerful deterrent in keeping the race from seeking the higher areas of spiritual consciousness.
— from Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall

We had our rendezvous within a short march of Quebec and on the eventful night numbered about 1,500 men, two hundred of whom had come from Montreal and the rest from St. Jerome, Three Rivers and other places.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

On the third day from London, when evening was drawing to a close, we began to reach familiar scenes—the inn of "the Loggerheads," with the sign of the two heads and the motto— "We three Loggerheads be."
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

On the contrary, as soon as the troops had fallen in, the arrangements which had been announced on the previous day were repeated; and I found that instead of being told off to take charge of the railway to the north of the city, I had to pass the whole day in guarding the Western Gate and the road for some distance on either side of it.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

They beheld him plainly enough, for there was now no need of torches along the foreshore; the night was crimson in its brilliancy, and down the hill came a continuous roar, like that of the Rhine Fall seventy leagues away.
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

When they return from such a campaign, if they have shed blood they paint their faces black, and seclude themselves from the women.
— from Building a State in Apache Land by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston