The conqueror of Persia and Syria was mounted on a red camel, which carried, besides his person, a bag of corn, a bag of dates, a wooden dish, and a leathern bottle of water.
— 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

Here too was its wealth ; for it overflowed all barriers of caste or race.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

29° E. Their height averages about 4½ feet; they are of a brownish or coffee colour; head large, jaws projecting (or prognathous), ears large, hands small.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Notes used to come from him in which he asked to be sent at the same time a book on chemistry, a text-book of medicine, a novel, and some treatise on philosophy or theology.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It is not difficult to collect from the literature of that day a series of expressions which accuse Bering of cruelty, imperiousness, and military arrogance.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

A bit of curtain, and a yard of wallpaper was all I could command.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The feast was held, and comments were passing on the fair arm which had transfixed the boar, when a ball of clay from a sling fractured a limb of the prince’s steed.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Then a blaze of colour met the eye on entering the sacred building, the events of sacred history were brought to mind by the representations upon the walls, and many an unlearned rustic acquired some knowledge of biblical history from the contemplation of the rude figures with which his village church was adorned.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

the point (4) above & on the L. S. the hills come to the river, This Hill has Sliped into the river for about 3/4 of a mile, and leaves a Bluff of considerable hight back of it this Hill is about 200 foot high compsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Therefore, if the power of offending be taken away, or if, by a breach of compact, there be danger of destruction or diminution to the state or tribute, then it is that covenants will be ratified, and confirmed, as it were by the Stygian oath, whilst there remains an impending danger of being prohibited and excluded the banquet of the gods; by which expression the ancients denoted the rights and prerogatives, the affluence and the felicities, of empire and dominion.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

At all events the second scored and then leaped and shouted like a band of Comanche Indians—or any other kind of Indian if there's a noisier sort!—and generally "rubbed it in."
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

Just such another bundle of contrarieties as you or I, or any one else.
— from Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol. 1 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She took out the clothes-pins, shooed them into the [94] house like a brood of chickens, gave them each some ginger tea and hustled them into bed, piling blankets upon them till they were nearly smothered.
— from The Story of Live Dolls by Josephine Scribner Gates

They dispersed a band of miners who were on the highway, armed, according to the sheriff's version, "with sticks," and bent on creating trouble in Harleigh.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams

Occasionally she would have spells of helpfulness, and for several days her stool and box of colors would be set up beside the parlor or dining-room doorway, while she decorated the pannels with sprays of wistaria and masses of fern, so true to nature that one wondered where a little country girl had ever learned to paint after such a manner.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

Another was a bed of charcoal, and amongst the charcoal were some partially burnt bones, including a skull that was very little injured.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Florence at once assumed the great lady, the heiress, the condescending patrician; Cassie flushed and trembled; and in a buzz of commonplaces the stewards served tea while the two women covertly took each other's measure.
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

In this rough country, where an advance was only possible along the main roads or along well-worn paths, each column, with its inevitable train of pack-animals and loaded carriers, sprawled down the tracks for miles in the rear of the advancing force, men and beasts alike being often compelled to go in single file.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

And this is what I mean when I come to the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice