The limit of poverty shall be the lot, which must not be diminished, and may be increased fivefold, but not more.
— from Laws by Plato

Could not the men whom they despised as milksops beat them, even on their own ground?
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The ladies said that as this was the first time they had dressed as men they were afraid of being recognized.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This appears to be due, as Mr. Michael Foster informs me, in part to the loc
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Then she would pat me on the arm and smooth my dress, as much as to assure me that she had a good opinion of me, the distance between us notwithstanding.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Mediation must be employed between disputants as much as possible, the person of the mediators of peace being held inviolate; an umpire ought to be chosen to decide a controversy, to whose judgment the parties in dispute agree to submit themselves; such an arbiter must be impartial.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

He likes outdoor sports and indoor dramatic and musical and social entertainments—there are none there.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But over against our gallery I espied Pembleton, and saw him leer upon my wife all the sermon, I taking no notice of him, and my wife upon him, and I observed she made a curtsey to him at coming out without taking notice to me at all of it, which with the consideration of her being desirous these two last Lord’s days to go to church both forenoon and afternoon do really make me suspect something more than ordinary, though I am loth to think the worst, but yet it put and do still keep me at a great loss in my mind, and makes me curse the time that I consented to her dancing, and more my continuing it a second month, which was more than she desired, even after I had seen too much of her carriage with him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The weak enervated women who particularly catch the attention of libertines, are unfit to be mothers, though they may conceive; so that the rich sensualist, who has rioted among women, spreading depravity and misery, when he wishes to perpetuate his name, receives from his wife only an half-formed being that inherits both its father's and mother's weakness.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

[9] See Durkheim and Mauss, De quelques formes primitives de classification , in Année Sociologique , VI, pp.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

His apprehension was not for a human foe, but for the unbroken spirits of darkness and mystery that can cow us all.
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The same particle recurs in the Iroquois name for the town=can-ada, a word which, in Maya, would describe a metropolis divided into four quarters.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

We would stop at some open-air place, we said, and have something dainty and modest and not heating to the blood.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

XIX.; to the proprietors of Knowledge for Plate VI.; to Mr. Denning and Messrs. Taylor and Francis for Plate III.
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie

Incassum abiere plures devotiones, jejunia et vota facta a puella vexata, exorcismi, benedictiones, et præecepta ab exorcistis facta Incubo, ut desisteret a molestia illa; nec quidquam proficiebatur multitudo reliquiarum, aliarumque rerum benedictarum disposita in camera virginis tentatæ, nec benedictæ candelæ noctu ibidem ardentes impediebant, quominus juxta consuetum appareret ad tentandum in forma speciosissimi juvenis.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

Certainly it seems a poor spider after the dynamical and migratory gossamer; but it happens, curiously enough, that a Facts and Thoughts about Spiders, 189 study of the habits of this dusty domestic creature leads us incidentally into the realms of fable and romance.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

"I do declare, Hilaro," said the lovely Fragrantia, "'tis pretty, 'tis interesting; I love you, and I like you, my dear Baron," said she, putting on another plume: "this gives it an air more delicate and more fantastical.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

The importance of this fact soon became manifest, for the original boss disappeared after M. Jovanoff's death, and in spite of all enquiries no trace of it can be discovered.
— from The Hittites: The story of a Forgotten Empire by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce