Q. Fulvius and Appius Claudius, the Consuls of the previous year, were continued in command there, with orders not to leave the place till it fell.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“That might be very well,” answered Pericles, “for any other than a praetor, who ought not only to have his hands, but his eyes, too, chaste.”—[Cicero, De Offic., i. 40.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

A phrase frequently used when one costermonger warns another of the approach of a policeman, or when any person worthy of notice passes by.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

We can find our way out now without your help.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The whole of nature is only a fulfilment of the maxims which it contains.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not, and shall only say that I did not return home that night or the next, as Martha kindly made room for me in her bed, which was the shut-up one in the new nursery.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

So as he won't give me up, I'm a-going to give him up.' 'How, Betty?' 'I'm a-going to run away from him.' With an astonished look at the indomitable old face and the bright eyes, the Secretary repeated, 'Run away from him?' 'Yes, sir,' said Betty, with one nod.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"The Wonderful Wizard was never so wonderful as Queen Ozma," the people said to one another, in whispers; "for he claimed to do many things he could not do; whereas our new Queen does many things no one would ever expect her to accomplish."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Mr. Bagnet's situation is all one, whether or no."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“What de matter now, massa?” said Jup, evidently shamed into compliance; “always want for to raise fuss wid old nigger.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

It was a long leafy ridge stippled with drab walls of noble Japanese houses, and striped with narrow streets of the humble; one of the many green knolls that, rising above the gray roofs, make the Japanese capital seem an endless succession of teeming village and restful grove.
— from The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives

We agree with him, on the whole, that rent is a desirable thing, which ought not, under ordinary circumstances, to be violently diminished; still we must adhere to our deliberate opinion, that, if a great organic change, affecting the interests of agriculture to a serious degree, is consequent upon any measures of the legislature, both landlord and tenant must be prepared to suffer in a certain ratio.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

No. 2 are subjects from an opera that cannot boast a single original idea, therefore the compiler of this quadrille must not be censured for want of novelty; but he has well arranged the airs he has chosen, and adapted them in a convenient manner for the performer.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Here are two women of natures manifestly as different as light and darkness.
— from The Mystery of Evelin Delorme: A Hypnotic Story by Albert Bigelow Paine

“Why you are quite gallant, Paddy.” “Trath, I suppose I am now, miss; but you see, my honerable young lady, that's our fwhailin' at home: the counthry's poor, an' we can't help it, whedor or not.
— from Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Sisemol was of no great height and was not precipitous.
— from With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

My great-great-grandchildren will figure me with a white beard down to my girdle; and Mr. Pitt's will believe him unspotted enough to have walked over nine hundred hot ploughshares, without hurting the sole of his foot.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

It was often necessary to hold the forms back until nearly daylight for 284 the purpose of getting the latest news, and the work of printing the paper had to be done in a very few hours.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert

Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleachers’ station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr