What I mean is this: even partial loss of utility , decay, and degeneration, loss of function and purpose, in a word, death, appertain to the conditions of the genuine progressus ; which always appears in the shape of a will and way to greater power, and is always realised at the expense of innumerable smaller powers.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ This form was so known and frequent among the Romans, as Dr. Hudson here tells us from the great Selden, that it used to be thus represented at the bottom of their edicts by the initial letters only, U. D. P. R. L. P, Unde De Plano Recte Lege Possit; "Whence it may be plainly read from the ground.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Etymologicum Magnum.—A lexicon of uncertain date, after Photius (886 A.D.) and before Eustathius.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In this predicament he naturally turns his eyes to that imposing power which alone rises above the level of universal depression.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

H2 anchor XXXII When Mr. Pontellier learned of his wife's intention to abandon her home and take up her residence elsewhere, he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Par contre, peut-être si, à la manière d'Europe 1 grande époque, on lui offrait un décodage de l'info façon "Pas vu à la télé", soit quelques commentaires acides des communiqués de presse qu'il entend en direct live, peut-être prendrait-il le temps, le soir, de se brancher pour charger ça.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ours live a life of usefulness, discharging their duties as mistress of the household, intent upon domestic cares, and yet interested as ourselves in all public affairs, and taking a share in their decision.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But when he entered Oxford he threw off all restraint and gave himself up to a life of utter dissipation, and before long his father received a polite note from the college authorities, intimating that to save further disgrace he had better call his worthy son home.
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

For we cannot give the name of practical plans to the abstract outlines of the party programmes; they are rather lawful or unlawful diplomas for the right of building.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

The most decisive evidence, however, we possess, is a law of Ulpian, directed, it is thought, against the Christians, which condemns those “who use incantations or imprecations, or (to employ the common word of impostors) exorcisms.”
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The prevalence of the lottery tends to keep up superstition of the most debasing kind: omens, dreams, lucky or unlucky days, are noted, and the corresponding numbers eagerly sought for in books published for the purpose, a tattered copy of which is sure to be possessed by any family who can boast of a member sufficiently a scholar to decipher it.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

Our juvenile lead came down with typhoid at our last week's stand, and we've been fakin' our best ever since—any old play we could, that had the fewest men, and the lot of us doublin' parts till we was ready to drop on the stage with the curtain.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

His face wore a look of unalterable decision, yet so fraught was it with misery, even despair, that she instinctively felt that Fate had dealt her a remorseless stroke.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood