Wherefore, for that which is to be related to-morrow, ensuing your delectable usance of discourse, I purpose not to restrict you to any special subject, but will have each discourse according as it pleaseth him, holding it for certain that the variety of the things which will be said will afford us no less entertainment than to have discoursed of one alone; and having done thus, whoso shall come after me in the sovranty may, as stronger than I, avail with greater assurance to restrict us within the limits of the wonted laws."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The internal state of the empire furnished little ground for hope that these various enemies could be subdued; the principle of union no longer existed; the proud title of Roman citizen was an empty name, Rome itself had ceased to be the metropolis, and was now only protected by the memory of her former greatness.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

The fact is plain, but it is neither unaccountable nor large enough to warrant the sweeping inferences which have been drawn from it and its like, as to the non-existence at this period of the developed ceremonial in Leviticus.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

"Some of us, perhaps, but it is unfortunately not large enough to hold us all comfortably," was the amused reply.
— from Elsie in the South by Martha Finley

Let us no longer eat the old leaven, but true wafers and paschal cakes.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

Various elements of the Cappadocian sculptures seem, upon no less evidence, to have {198} been borrowed from Egypt, Persia, and even from the Greeks of Asia Minor, but this is exceptional.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

She knew most of the men by sight, but had hitherto looked at them from a distance as beings unapproachable, not likely ever to come within touch of herself or her life; and they all looked towards her, more or less severely,—some with surprise, some with concealed amusement, some with the sternest disapproval.
— from The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He has murdered the son and led captive the brother, Has broke up the home and made war on his mother; And now while our sons by the thousand are slain The nation to save and its life to maintain, When the patriot's eyelids are closing in death, While a prayer for his country inspires his last breath, Or bleeding he lies as the foul traitor's dart Is caught in the folds of the flag round his heart, While freedom's bright bow, for the millions unborn, No longer encircles the brow of the storm, While the sun of our glory grows dim in our sight, And the star of our destiny's shrouded in night; Still our paralyzed hands, to our country untrue, Are stretched out to succor the traitorous crew, As they strike for our lives, fully bent on our ruin, We lend them assistance by holding their Bruin, And tell all the world that our national wars Shall be waged to protect constitutional bears .
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

They speak to us no less effectively than to those for whom they were specially intended.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh