The Laws distinctly acknowledge what the Republic partly admits, that the ideal is inimitable by us, but that we should 'lift up our eyes to the heavens' and try to regulate our lives according to the divine image.
— from Laws by Plato

It will at once occur to the reader, as a possible improvement of the puzzle, to divide the board by a central vertical line and make the condition that this also shall not be crossed.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The fact that this right was sometimes conferred upon those who were not legally entitled to benefit by it, makes no difference in this inference.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It will be said that the reported amours of Chrishna and his reencounter with Cansa constitute a criticism on his character.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

[ This threefold division of the law was applied to the three Roman kings by Justus Lipsius, (Opp. tom.
— 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

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

3. The edict of the tyrant ruler Cansa, ordering all the first born to be put to death.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Such an account is vague and it sounds at first quite trivial, but it has results which it will take the rest of my hour to explain.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

A strict adherence to this rule gives a man the command of half the spare funds within the range of his acquaintance, and encircles him with a host of friends, who may be depended upon in any emergency.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too, Those smaller faults, half converts to the right.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nevertheless he paraded the Tory remainder of it, doubtless with the intention of awing the entire county.
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Who shall affirm that the result of the craven spirit of the English was the prosperity which ensued, and that of Irish heroism destruction and gloom?
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

They were marching rapidly to the right.
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

The British camp of Pen-y-Gaer lies to the right of it.
— from The Motor Routes of England: Western Section by Gordon Home

She went through the rooms, and I heard her open the outer door.
— from Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas

De Guinea nigger don't know nothin', 'cept hard work, and, for him to be so he can keep up wid bigger folks, he has to turn 'round fas'.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

From there it flows past Samosata and Hierapolis and all the towns in that region as far as the land of Assyria, where the two rivers unite with each other into one stream which bears the name of the Tigris.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius

57:1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come .
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

From the time of the Prince’s nomination to the Roumanian throne Princess Elizabeth had displayed a great interest in him.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

"I jumped from one firm spot to another, till at last I slipped and sank over my ankles; I tried to get on toward the reeds, which were close by, but in I went deeper and deeper, till I was above the knees in thick soft mud, and there I stuck!
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss