They condemned the execrable and abominable heresy of the Monothelites, who revived the errors of Manes, Apollinaris, Eutyches, &c.; they signed the sentence of excommunication on the tomb of St. Peter; the ink was mingled with the sacramental wine, the blood of Christ; and no ceremony was omitted that could fill the superstitious mind with horror and affright.
— 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

They indulge in few or no recriminations; are faithful to old associations; more considerate of the prejudices of others than others are of theirs; not more worldly-minded and money-loving than people generally are; and, everything considered, they surpass all nations in courtesy, affability, and forbearance.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

But in an "equal congress" they should lie down in the natural position.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Since that time, I have written to her many letters, but never could obtain an answer, which I must own sits somewhat the heavier, as she herself was, though undesignedly, the occasion of all my sufferings: for, had it not been under the colour of paying his addresses to her, Mr Fitzpatrick would never have found sufficient opportunities to have engaged my heart, which, in other circumstances, I still flatter myself would not have been an easy conquest to such a person.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Full fifty ships they send, and each conveys Twice sixty warriors through the foaming seas.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Has an express come to say that his country house is afire?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia effœtum corpus tradit senectuti —A sensual and intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out body.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity, Elizabeth opened the letter, and to her still increasing wonder, perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter paper, written quite through, in a very close hand.—The envelope itself was likewise full.—Pursuing her way along the lane, she then began it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

{259} I advise every criminalist to study the literature of memory and recommend the works of Münsterberg, Ribot, Ebbinghaus, Cattell, Kräpelin, Lasson, Nicolai Lange, Arreat, Richet, Forel, Galton, Biervliet, Paneth, Fauth, Sander, Koch, Lehmann, Féré, Jodl, [213] etc. Section 52.(a)
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

After elegantly complimenting the spring, and a description of her Royal Highness's well-known ancestors the “Berserkers,” he bursts forth— “The Rose of Denmark comes, the Royal Bride!
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

Even as early as the reign of Alfred England claimed the sovereignty of the seas.
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

Her cheeks were flushed, tinted to an exquisite carmine that seemed to leave more white her low forehead and now heaving bosom.
— from Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes

No angry language will be allowed, but one member may tell another, in the height of an exciting contest, that she is "a spiteful, disagreeable old thing."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, April 6, 1895 by Various

They were also especially careful to strew portions over the coffins and graves of the dead.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

I count I could bray like a jackass an’ I tried, and that were good enough for any strange-born companion as ever cumbered the soil of merry England.”
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt