And let the women whom we have chosen be the overseers of such matters, and let them in whatever number, large or small, and at whatever time the magistrates may command, assemble every day in the temple of Eileithyia during a third part of the day, and being there assembled, let them inform one another of any one whom they see, whether man or woman, of those who are begetting children, disregarding the ordinances given at the time when the nuptial sacrifices and ceremonies were performed.
— from Laws by Plato

He said to him: ‘Dear son, I wished to see you once again before my end, promise me to marry as I wish,’ and he named a certain king’s daughter who was to be his wife.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“No, he wished to speak to your excellency; I told him you were gone out, and after some dispute he believed me and gave me this letter, which he had brought with him already sealed.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This he would place over his head, and fancy that he was in the beech-wood while the sun shone, and the birds carolled gayly.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I like to see, an’ I want to see more, an’ I want to see it different.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the building Number 50-52.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

His son made his fortune in Poland by marrying a lady named Opeska, whom, as they say, he killed, though I have never had any positive proof on the matter, and am willing to stretch Christian charity to the extent of believing he was innocent, although he was quite capable of such a crime.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

That summer she boarded eleven factory hands, who roomed in her house, and she did all the cooking, washing and ironing, with no help except that of a thirteen-year-old girl, who went to school and did "chores" night and morning.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

'So the unfolding of this temporal order unified into the foreview of the Divine mind is providence, while the same unity broken up and unfolded in time is fate.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

But what I want to say is this—there’s two thousand lying to my credit in the London Bartered.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood

The Convention providing for the settlement of international differences between the United States and Canada, including the apportionment between the two countries of certain of the boundary waters and the appointment of commissioners to adjust certain other questions, signed on the 11th day of January, 1909, and to the ratification of which the Senate gave its advice and consent on March 3, 1909, has not yet been ratified on the part of Great Britain.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Tail of eighteen feathers; bill, feet, and claws black, head and two upper thirds of neck glossy black; forehead, cheeks, and chin, tinged with brown; lower eyelid white; a broad band of white across the throat to behind the eye; rump and tail-feathers black; general colour of the rest of upper parts greyish-brown, wing-coverts shaded into ash-grey, all the feathers terminally edged with very pale brown; lower part of neck passing to greyish-white, which is the general colour of the lower parts, unless in old birds where it is buff, with the exception of the abdomen, which is pure white, the sides, which are pale brownish-grey, the feathers tipped with white, and the lower wing-coverts, which are also pale brownish-grey; margins of rump and upper tail-coverts pure white.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon

The days were growing so long that they could do their studying out of doors in the evenings, and the place of their choosing, where they struggled with dates and angles and difficult lines of Virgil, was the stretch of grass around the pool.
— from The Pool of Stars by Cornelia Meigs

He says: "Men want to see that their single life, so lost alone, is vitally bound into the bundle of universal love."
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

"They do not wish to see me themselves?"
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

To be present among those thousands on such an occasion, once in a life, were to stamp that life with an impression to which language is not equal.
— from Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission by Daniel C. (Daniel Clarke) Eddy

An Englishman, even on his great battle-ship, unbends when the stranger passes his gangway, and when he says "at home" he means it.
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

But—yes, it was true—there had been days when the strong, fine light of her had waned.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Pg 287] that it was deemed wise to suppress.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby