This it is which bound men by the chains of right and law, formed the bonds of civil society, and made us quit a wild and savage life.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The great door flew open, and he beheld..." "A ravishingly lovely lady, who exclaimed, with a cry of rapture, 'At last!
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the house, and before I had laid the second floor, and swept out the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

But soon her brush of colour is all bare— The clown, whose fodder is consumed outright, Rises and looks abroad, and, all the plain Beholding glisten, on his thigh doth smite.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Two glasses of sauterne at luncheon loosened his tongue, and he talked, with what he felt was something of his old charm, of religion and literature and the menacing phenomena of the social order.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The Chinese and European customs which I have cited may perhaps shed light on the custom of rending a live bull or goat at the rites of Dionysus.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

so also fountains once existing have failed, and others have burst forth; and similarly in the case of rivers and lakes: again, mountains and plains have been converted reciprocally one into the other.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

At length, he one day received a letter, stating that the abductors of his son now offered to restore him, or at least to give notice where he might be found, on condition of receiving a large sum of money, by way of ransom.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For he came in safety from the ends of the earth, even from Britain, through many a nation, over many a sea, by many a path, and saw the city of Romulus and looked upon Peter's sanctuary revered, bearing mystic gifts.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He was accused of “taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No, my lads, I’m not going to give you leave,” said the keeper, with a twinkle in his eyes; “but there’s a couple o’ rods and lines all right, under the thatch of the boat-house.”
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn

[41] All around the great throng of Indians stood, or crouched, or reclined at length, with eyes and ears intent.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

I do not know the penalty to be visited upon a physician who offends the majesty of the law as set forth in section 1142 of the penal code, but I for one am willing to take the responsibility before the law and before my God for every time I have counselled, and every time I shall counsel in the future, the prevention of a tuberculous conception, with a view to preserving the life of the mother, increasing her chances of recovery, and, last, but not least, preventing the procreation of a tuberculous race.
— from The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts by Margaret Sanger

"In the spring of the year Ayllon came loafing up the Florida coast with two brigantines and a crew of rascally adventurers, looking for slaves and gold.
— from The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin

Yet he had one other cause of regret at leaving England: for Chester is in England, and Gwen was presumably at Chester.
— from Babylon, Volume 2 by Grant Allen

His father also sacrificed his life to the cause of railroad advancement, losing his entire fortune and dying a poor man.
— from Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads by Lyman Horace Weeks

Aristotle ascribing all euents vnto manifest causes precedent, dooth scoffe at Plato and his numbers in his booke of common-wealths, and bringeth in sundrie causes of the alteration of the state of things, which we may referre vnto principals, as iniurie, oppression, ambition, treason, rebellion, contempt of religion and lawes, and therevnto abundance of wealth in few, and great necessitie and miserie in manie.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

When a traveller is starting from the door, his dog often gets in front of the horse, placing his forefeet down,— looking the horse in the face, and barking loudly, then, as the horse comes on, running a little farther, and repeating the process; and this he does in spite of his master's remonstrances, till, the horse being fairly started, the dog follows on quietly.
— from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The child at first treats gloves as alike, whether rights or lefts, but thus gets into trouble, and is driven to look at them more sharply till he perceives the special characteristics of rights and lefts.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth