A year after I left the Comte du Barri, brother-in-law of the famous mistress of Louis XV., visited Bologna, and became so amorous of Adelaide that her mother sent her away, fearing he would carry her off.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A typical installation consists of a gas sample-roasting outfit, employing at least a single cylinder holding about six ounces of coffee, and perhaps a battery of a dozen or more; an electric grinding mill; a testing table, with a top that can be revolved by hand; a pair of accurately adjusted balance scales; one or more brass kettles; a gas stove for heating water; sample pans; many china or glass cups; silver spoons; and a brass cuspidor that stands waist high and is shaped like an hour glass.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In addition to this, we were only three or four days out, when the sailmaker, who was the oldest and best seaman on board, was taken with the palsy, and was useless for the rest of the voyage.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Since their institution or revival by Augustus, 56 they had been celebrated by Claudius, by Domitian, and by Severus, and were now renewed the fifth time, on the accomplishment of the full period of a thousand years from the foundation of Rome.
— 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

ANT: Betrayed, surrendered, divulged, entered into, profaned.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Now all these tenons and sockets accurately fitted one another, insomuch that the joints were invisible, and both seemed to be one entire and united wall.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

After a brief space, she rebelled against Highgate and Hornsey utterly.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

When she had left the room the prince again began speaking about his son, about the war, and about the Emperor, angrily twitching his brows and raising his hoarse voice, and then he had a second and final stroke.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I am a Boer spy, straight from the commandos."
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

[82] He therefore set out, taking with him soldiers and attendants as became such a mighty lord, and when he saw the object of his journey he acknowledged that the hunter had not deceived him, and he determined to take her back with him to the palace; but at the same time he made up his mind to go about it in a cunning way.
— from Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country by William Charles Griggs

A brief stay of one day is better than not stopping at all, but to get even an inkling of its greatness and grandeur days and weeks must be spent in making trips up and down and into the canon.
— from Arizona Sketches by J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk

One thing is quite clear; he has not lost himself in speculations foreign to our experience and [329] remote from it; he has dealt with the common facts of life such as they were in his time, such as they remain in ours: for now, as then, men are restless and craving, and seek the satisfactions of rest in science or in pleasure, in successful public careers or in the fortunate conduct of affairs, by securing wealth or by laying up a modest provision for present and future wants.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

Those merry gentlemen, well acquainted with classic story, dressed a huge Owl in a coif and band, and placed him on a broom staff over a door opposite Lancaster-court.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

A big sea smashed on the deck above, and the pillars stiffened themselves to the load.
— from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

Would you raise your right hand, please, and be sworn?
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission