Can there be worse husbandry than to set up so many certain and knowing vices against errors that are only contested and disputable?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Roma Imperium terris, animos aequabit Olympo, Septemque una sibi muro circumdabit arces, Felix prole virum. . . .. .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Basilio was not naturally superstitious, especially after having carved up so many corpses and watched beside so many death-beds, but the old legends about that ghostly spot, the hour, the darkness, the melancholy sighing of the wind, and certain tales heard in his childhood, asserted their influence over his mind and made his heart beat violently.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Are you pleased to inquire which of us showed more clemency after victory?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

But reflection brought better feelings, and shewed her that Mrs. Grant was entitled to respect, which could never have belonged to her ; and that, had she received even the greatest, she could never have been easy in joining a scheme which, considering only her uncle, she must condemn altogether.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

All at once, however, a series of noises, equally loud and unexpected, startled melodists, conversationalists, and sleepers all to their legs.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

What, however, gratified the public even more than these retributions was the liberation of the aged Chief of Offally from the Tower of London, at the earnest supplication of his heroic daughter, Margaret, who found her way to the Queen's presence to beg that boon; and the simultaneous restoration of the Earldom of Kildare, in the person of that Gerald, who had been so young a fugitive among the glens of Muskerry and Donegal, and had since undergone so many continental adventures.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

The noise of a heavy body forcing its way through the underbrush sounded more clearly, and Fred sprang to his feet, hatchet in hand, ready to defend himself to the utmost.
— from Down the Slope by James Otis

While we are prone to think the older peoples who used such materials commonly are to be condemned for ignorance and superstition, it is well to recall that human nature has not changed, and is still ready to be influenced in the same way.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

may depend upon so many causes, and be so very different in its effects, degrees of intensity, and the kind of pain or sensation attending it, that one will find it very difficult to mark out any definite treatment.
— from An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill

Yes, sir; the United States Marshal came alongside our ship, while in the Navy Yard, in a tug, and they were delivered to him.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

M. G. Letscher, First Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps, Administrative Office, Aviation Class 3, Reserve Section."
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

No—there is nothing which gives us so much confidence and strength as to know our own weakness; but, my sweet girl, of what use is it for us to know it, if we do not feel it; and why fee
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Now, then, and not till now, we Three know the full power of the lines— "Scilicet et Rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, Septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

When this shop was being projected as a plant to take care of the overflow of worn shoes from the camps and depots, the United Shoe Machinery Co. agreed to furnish machinery sufficient to repair 2,000 pairs of shoes a day, supplying this equipment for a period of six months without any expense to the Government, except upkeep and the cost of supplies.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell