It may very easily happen—it very often actually does happen—that one single step from the path of purity clouds a man's whole life with misery and unspeakable suffering; and not only that, but even entails lifelong disease on children yet unborn.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The reading from the vantage of a distant star of the capital letters of our earthly life, would perchance lead to the conclusion that the earth was the especially ascetic planet , a den of discontented, arrogant, and repulsive creatures, who never got rid of a deep disgust of themselves, of the world, of all life, and did themselves as much hurt as possible out of pleasure in hurting—presumably their one and only pleasure.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

3. ¶Marius was the more easily able to calumniate Metellus for the reason that the latter was numbered among the nobles and was managing military concerns excellently, whereas he himself was just beginning to come forward from a very obscure and doubtful origin into public notice:—the populace was readily inclined to overthrow Metellus through envy, and favored Marius increasingly for his promises:—of great assistance, too, was the report that Metellus had said to Marius (who was just then coming forward
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The truth is, that references to a jury in that court rarely happen, and are in no case necessary but where the validity of a devise of land comes into question.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Moreover, he asserts that, when yellow and white varieties of one species are crossed with yellow and white varieties of a DISTINCT species, more seed is produced by the crosses between the similarly coloured flowers, than between those which are differently coloured.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

If it contains a long vowel or a diphthong, as cû´-rô , poe´-nae , aes-tâ´-te .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

7 The annual celebration of the Dominican Order held in October in honor of its patroness, the Virgin of the Rosary, to whose intervention was ascribed the victory over a Dutch fleet in 1646, whence the name.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

They rise with the sun, and so soon as they are up, eat for all day, for they have no more meals but that; they do not then drink, as Suidas reports of some other people of the East that never drank at their meals; but drink very often all day after, and sometimes to a rousing pitch.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘Tis what Antisthenes said, “That a man should either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself;” and what Chrysippus alleged upon this saying of the poet Tyrtus:— “Or to arrive at virtue or at death;” and Crates said, “That love would be cured by hunger, if not by time; and whoever disliked these two remedies, by a rope.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Anglo-American union, arguments favouring, 156-160 ; drawbacks to plan of, 160 ; further discussion of possible value of, and disadvantages of, 234-236 .
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

If you wish to get rid of agitation, you must establish an oligarchy like that of Venice, or a despotism like that of Russia.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

We passed several small islands; some had but a few stunted trees growing on them; others again had scarcely soil sufficient to nourish a few blades of long wiry grass; while others were barren rocks without verdure of any description, their heads but lately risen from beneath the waves.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

Careful attention should be paid to choice of words, for on right words depends in a large degree the vividness of a description.
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

Living thus, they were happiest—but they were always happy and good—they lived to be very old, and died on the same day and were buried in the same grave.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood

It was an accusation against Murden, that his pretended visit of friendship to Mr. Villier was in fact a visit of a different kind, to a female in Mr. Villier's neighbourhood, of whom Lady Mary said Murden had not been the original seducer; that she had been lured from her friends by another person, and that having preferred the attractions of Murden, she made a pretence of returning to her friends, in order to be the more conveniently under his protection.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

If he passes a satisfactory examination the third year, he then receives a full license, entitling him to pilot vessels of any draught, and is then first called a branch or full pilot.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson