“My glance had fallen, but a few moments before, on the fragments of a broken sword, lying among the hay.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

We all know they have made a beginning since last March and the suicide did something to help that along.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

I have acquired a beautiful shape, like that of a chief; I have acquired a shape that is good.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

14 ab actuariis = by some light craft , lit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

—Seneca, Ep., 75.] To see the trouble that Seneca gives himself to fortify himself against death; to see him so sweat and pant to harden and encourage himself, and bustle so long upon this perch, would have lessened his reputation with me, had he not very bravely held himself at the last.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Note 15 ( return ) [ The judicial combat was abolished by St. Louis in his own territories; and his example and authority were at length prevalent in France, (Esprit des Loix, l. xxviii.
— 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

It had the appearance of a large lake outside, and a beautiful ship lay close to the house.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

“I thank thee,” replied Paulus, “but I have other viaticum , whereof, since there is no need of haste, I would gladly partake with my son; suffer us, therefore, if it may be, to be alone yet a brief space longer.”
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

They danced, and they danced, and they danced, till they were too tired to dance any more, then they flung themselves down to rest; upon which the little leader of the band jumped down from his perch and placed himself on a broad smooth leaf, that two of his band spread on the grass opposite to where sat the king and queen.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various

By the manner in which the present race of professors in England conduct it, that also becomes still life as much as any of the preceding.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3) by John Ireland

Even when the same plant is found in different parts of the world, it is generally in the same climate, though in different countries; and thus pines and firs, oaks and birches, spread like belts or zones round the globe, from Asia, through Europe, to America,
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

A ball so lifted shall be teed if possible behind the place where it lay.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

And she forgave all, because she loved me.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"Concha" suggests a bay shaped like a shell.
— from Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson