Being in Egypt I saw a vision in my sleep, which I would I had never seen, and it seemed to me that a messenger came from home and reported to me that Smerdis was sitting upon the royal throne and had touched the heaven with his head.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But this, it may be, is a question belonging more properly to an investigation different from ours: and it is quite clear, that on the supposition of its not being sent from the Gods direct, but coming to us by reason of virtue and learning of a certain kind, or discipline, it is yet one of the most Godlike things; because the prize and End of virtue is manifestly somewhat most excellent, nay divine and blessed.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The only person in London whom he could have visited is Major Sholto.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

All my latent jealousy, all my inmost doubts concerning Minna's character, found vent in my sudden determination to leave the girl at once.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“Ah!” cried Vereshchágin in meek surprise, looking round with a frightened glance as if not understanding why this was done to him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[4934] ———videt igne micantes, Sideribus similes oculos——— which are love's fowlers; [4935] aucupium amoris , the shoeing horns, the hooks of love (as Arandus will) the guides, touchstone, judges, that in a moment cure mad men, and make sound folks mad, the watchmen of the body; what do they not?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As my last project, if I found I could not entirely do without copying, was that of removing from Paris, where the affluence of my visitors rendered my housekeeping expensive, and deprived me of the time I should have turned to advantage to provide for it; to prevent in my retirement the state of lassitude into which an author is said to fall when he has laid down his pen, I reserved to myself an occupation which might fill up the void in my solitude without tempting me to print anything more.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If coffee is roasted thoroughly, inside as well as outside, so as to give the greatest roasted coffee value, it must sustain a proper loss in weight which there is no legitimate way to avoid.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For,--howsoever it may grow mis-shapt Like this wyld man being undisciplyned That to all virtue it may seeme unapt,--
— from Walladmor, Vol. 2 (of 2) "Freely Translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott." And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. by Willibald Alexis

It is very doubtful whether this equivocal vindication is more serviceable to Vico’s fame than the plain avowal that a writer placed as he was, in the Catholic world of 1720, could not be expected to be straightforward upon such an issue.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

In the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863, Huxley divided the Vertebrata into Mammals, Sauroids and Ichthyoids, the latter division containing the Amphibia and Pisces.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Owing to the fact that our fruits ripen much earlier than similar varieties in more southern parts of Australia, we have gone in largely for early varieties of apples, both for cooking and table use, but have not confined our attention to them entirely, as good-keeping sorts are found to do equally well, and have been shown at the annual exhibition that is held in Brisbane during August, in perfect condition, showing that the fruit has good keeping qualities.
— from Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson

From the Western point of view it may seem difficult to teach morality without connecting it with religion, but we do it!"
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

And when she spoke of the fraternity that might be fostered by such visits, he looked for an instant as if he had found an opening, which seemed, however, to converge and vanish in Mrs. Sand's folded hands.
— from The Path of a Star by Sara Jeannette Duncan

[176] the first hidalgo in the land; and, I believe, Caballeros , that, without vanity, I may say, my coming caused some little sensation in my natal town.
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

It is a myth, I say; some women would devour the earth, I only ask for half.—You see?” “Vat a voman is Montame Saint-Estefe!” said the Baron to himself as he admired Esther’s changed demeanor.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac