Note 100 ( return ) [ The wars and negotiations relative to the Burgundians and Alemanni, are distinctly related by Ammianus Marcellinus, (xxviii. 5, xxix 4, xxx. 3.)
— 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

The relaxation of industry and activity, and diminished encouragement to saving which would be their ultimate consequence, might perhaps be little felt by the class of unskilled laborers in the space of a single lifetime.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

And when he was at Askelon, and demanded the taxes of the people of Askelon, they refused to pay any thing, and affronted him also; upon which he seized upon about twenty of the principal men, and slew them, and gathered what they had together, and sent it all to the king, and informed him what he had done.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Bonacieux, against Buckingham, but above all against d’Artagnan--projects lost in the distance of the future.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

For instance, an enemy and the injuries done to one by him, are efficient evils; fear, meanness of condition, slavery, want of delight, depression of spirits, excessive grief, and all actions done according to vice, are final evils; and some partake of both characters, since, inasmuch as they produce perfect unhappiness, they are efficient; and inasmuch as they complete it in such a way as to become parts of it, they are final.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Everybody knows that a party to a suit summons an apparitor and dictates to him whatever he chooses, and the apparitor proclaims it.
— 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

I may also refer to certain passages in Baber's "Memoirs," in which he speaks of a place, and apparently a district, called Dehánah , which seems from the context to have lain in the vicinity of the Ghori, or Aksarai River.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The giant was pleased with the good cheer, and ate and drank to his heart’s content.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Avoid reflection, and above all, do not reason.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

[186] Muir was a very good-looking barrister, with vague parliamentary ambitions and a definite love of machinery.
— from The Limit by Ada Leverson

The muffled bark of lugubrious timbre came again and again, deadened by distance and doors.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

With this end in view an expedition on salt water was arranged for the Prince; and insignificant as the feat must appear in Western eyes, yet for a Manchu prince, who had never seen the sea, to be allowed to trust himself on the treacherous element at all, or on such a strange monster as a steamer, must be accepted as a decided proof that the old order was changing, giving place to the new.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

It happens, however, that the etiquette of the European and African are decidedly dissimilar: to make an individual wait is certainly considered in the former, as a breach of good manners, whereas in the latter, the longer a person is made to wait before the introduction takes place, the greater is the honour done him, and the higher is the rank of that person supposed to be, who exacts that ungracious duty.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

Drawn to her full height she looked at him as at a dead enemy.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

And since he never cared anything at all about ducks, he said he didn't expect to be present.
— from The Tale of Peter Mink Sleepy-Time Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey

When they were almost arrived at Daria Alexeyevna’s house (it was a large wooden structure of ancient date), a gorgeously-dressed lady and a young girl came out of it.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In fact, I was getting to be considered “almost as all de same so goot ash Deutsch,” and very “bopular.”
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

Marjorie appeared successively, and with distinction, as a Lady Guest at the reception of a most unconvincing Duchess, where she flourished an empty champagne glass painted yellow inside; as a Bird of Paradise in the chorus of an ornithological ditty entitled, "If my Girl was a Bird, I would Build Her a Nest," contributed by the well-preserved light baritone aforementioned; as a damsel of the South Sea Islands, participating, with somewhat improbable ritual, in the Annual Festival of the Sun; and in other less exacting roles.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay