It was proper for the poet to say that, because, when he was working out his Atreus, he had to make the words fit the character.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole city was poured forth to behold with curiosity and terror the aspect of a strange people: their long hair, which hung in tresses down their backs, was gracefully bound with ribbons, but the rest of their habit appeared to imitate the fashion of the Huns.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

My personal preferences, as expressed, were to be allowed to return to St. Louis to resume my present command, because my command was important, large, suited to my rank and inclination, and because my family was well provided for there in house, facilities, schools, living, and agreeable society; while, on the other hand, Washington was for many (to me) good reasons highly objectionable, especially because it is the political capital of the country; and focus of intrigue, gossip, and slander.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It depends only on how the opposites react upon each other, what effects will proceed from the one and what from the other.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But Plut, seeing Thaddeus in front of his line, had a quiet consultation with Corporal Gont, who passed for the best shot in the company.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

A consecrated banner was procured from the pope, and the gold of Peru was lavished on the occasion.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works Transcriber’s Notes About this e-book: This e-book was prepared from a 1964 reprint published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, which in turn was prepared from the two-volume 1922 English translation published by Édition Russe de Musique , Paris.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

An elegant supper was provided for the entertainment of the bishop, and his Christian friends were permitted for the last time to enjoy his society, whilst the streets were filled with a multitude of the faithful, anxious and alarmed at the approaching fate of their spiritual father.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They scrape the fine white powder from the large fungus that grows upon the bark of the pine into whiskey, and take it for violent pains in the stomach.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Now a young gentleman of our city, a sprightly and pleasant youth, who was often in those parts, had cast his eyes on the girl and loved her ardently; and she, who gloried greatly in being beloved of a youth of his quality, whilst studying with pleasing fashions to maintain him in her love, became no less enamoured of him, and more than once, by mutual accord, this their love had had the desired effect, but that Pinuccio (for such was the young man's name) feared to bring reproach upon his mistress and himself.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Up he stood, and thus proclaim'd: "Arise, You wrastlers, that will prove for these."
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

It has been preserved, no doubt, by a wise Providence for this very purpose.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 10, October, 1879 by Various

And furth thai ȝet the wyne in cowpis glaid, God Bachus giftis fast thai multiply: 15 With platis full the altaris by and by Thai can do charge, and wirschip with fat lyre; The smelland sens vpblesis in the fyre.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

"It's dearly th' spalpanes will pay fer this noight!"
— from Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

It is a matter of common knowledge—anybody who was unaware of it before the appearance of Lord French's " 1914 " will have learnt it from that volume—that the relations between Lord Kitchener and some of those up (p. 056) at the top in connection with our troops on the Western Front were, practically from the outset, not quite satisfactory in character.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

The phrase, “Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,” shows, as Feuerbach points out, 102 how loose an idea of personality was attached to it, and is very different from the precise terms in which the Creed defines the production of the Son.
— from The Origin and Development of Christian Dogma: An essay in the science of history by Charles A. H. Tuthill

I have a means of silencing those who prove false to me.”
— from The White Squaw by Mayne Reid

Nevertheless, all the essential features of our modern church services were present from the earliest time about which we have detailed information.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen