Amongst the people of Germany I would not reckon those who occupy the lands which are under decimation, though they be such as dwell beyond the Rhine and the Danube.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

It has enabled the inventor and the discoverer to go on and on amidst troubles and trials which otherwise would have utterly disheartened them.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[3] The population of Norway [4] is very unevenly distributed, the north being rather thinly settled.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

kay magubin ka unyà, Don’t take the children because they will encumber you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There I was caught up by wings of flame, And a voice from heaven said to me: "Injustice, Untruth destroyed them.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Gibberne is now working at the quantitative handling of his preparation, with especial reference to its distinctive effects upon different types of constitution.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And then the old man clasped his hands above her head, and said, in a few broken words, that from that time forth they would wander up and down together, and never part more until Death took one or other of the twain.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But let us defer the further correlation and subdivision of the subjects of opinion and of intellect, for it will be a long enquiry, many times longer than this has been.
— from The Republic by Plato

“Have pity on your unhappy daughter, there is no remedy for her grief, her tears cannot be dried.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He would return a purse, I am sure, upon discovering that he had obtained it by an unoriginal diddle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It is generally understood to have been all covered by the sea in former ages, not only from its being observed that the strand yearly gains an accession, but also that, upon digging the earth at some distance inland, sea-shells, and even pieces of boat-timber, are discovered.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

"Know thou, that, from the first, these substances, Rejoicing in the countenance of God, Have held unceasingly their view, intent Upon the glorious vision, from the which Naught absent is nor hid: where then no change Of newness with succession interrupts, Remembrance there needs none to gather up Divided thought and images remote "So that men, thus at variance with the truth Dream, though their eyes be open; reckless some Of error; others well aware they err, To whom more guilt and shame are justly due.
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 3 by Dante Alighieri

But if Vargas, by his unscrupulous devotion to the cause, won the confidence of his employers, he incurred, on the other hand, the unmitigated hatred of the people,—a hatred deeper, it would almost seem, than even that which attached to Alva; owing perhaps to the circumstance that, as the instrument {347} for the execution of the duke's measures, Vargas was brought more immediately in contact with the people than the duke himself.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

But speculatively, essential existence is just universal determinations; they are existent in themselves, or the abstract content
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The next morning, just as I had dropped into an uneasy doze, there came a knocking and a hammering, and a muttering outside my door.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

Still, at this moment, the present fate of Paris unavoidably draws to itself more of our thoughts than the future fate of Rome.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

he asked, upon discovering that the other was awake.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Roll of Honor by Robert Shaler

They are not so apt to go down under defeat, to take the full count, as I have done.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer