He resolved to make a bold and dangerous experiment, whether the throne was inaccessible to the voice of truth; and before the final sentence could be pronounced at Tyre, the intrepid primate threw himself into a bark which was ready to hoist sail for the Imperial city.
— 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

Life: by Aitken; by A. Dobson (English Worthies Series).
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The main principle of the Kula exchange has been laid down in the before-mentioned chapter; the Kula exchange has always to be a gift , followed by a counter-gift ; it can never be a barter, a direct exchange with assessment of equivalents and with haggling.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

[These....contained in the edition of 1588 nine-and-twenty sonnets of La Boetie, accompanied by a dedicatory epistle to Madame de Grammont.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

These movements are nearly the same with those commonly made when we feel very cold; and they are generally accompanied by a shudder, as well as by a deep expiration or inspiration, according as the chest happens at the time to be expanded or contracted.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Over the river men were at work with spades and sieves on the sandy foreshore, and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But he cannot do otherwise; whatever activities actually are released under compulsion neurosis are carried along by a driving energy, such as is probably never met with in normal psychic life.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The Albion was founded in 1822 by Dr. John Charlton Fisher, who afterwards became a distinguished Editor at Quebec.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

A big Athletic department, edited by Walter Camp is a regular feature.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

You can be not at home to him; I only see that I must have a brief and decisive explanation with you, and, moreover, time is passing.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 22] Happily for the honor of the country the North was at last aroused from her lethargy, and by a desperate effort obtained a recommitment of the bill even at this latest possible moment; the obnoxious clause was altered into a binding out to service for a term of years in the free States, and the bill came up for final action.
— from A History of the Trial of Castner Hanway and Others, for Treason, at Philadelphia in November, 1851 With an Introduction upon the History of the Slave Question by Member of the Philadelphia bar

“Mind, I do not say that Miss Costigan is not the most disinterested of women: but, don't you suppose now, fairly, that your position as a young gentleman of ancient birth and decent expectations forms a part of the cause why she finds your addresses welcome?”
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

Her heart skipped a beat as Dave exclaimed: “Man! Oh, man!”
— from Sign of the Green Arrow A Mystery Story by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

The war has already brought about drastic economic changes in Europe.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

The eastern shore is less savage and there are some attempts at agriculture, but on the whole Giens and its peninsula are but a distant echo of anything seen elsewhere.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

She was still a beautiful woman, though her face was sad and bore a discontented expression.
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

"And both are dead, eh?" mused the traveller in a strange calculating tone.
— from The Golden Galleon Being a Narrative of the Adventures of Master Gilbert Oglander, and of how, in the Year 1591, he fought under the gallant Sir Richard Grenville in the Great Sea-fight off Flores, on board her Majesty's Ship the Revenge by Robert Leighton

Some thirty-five arrived safely, and the Dinner of Welcome in Sculpture Hall not only set a milestone in the progress of the city, but was in itself a beautiful and distinctive event.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

And one time he brung home some live fish in a bucket and dumped em in there.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis