When I returned to Venice, I received a note from M. Rosa, who entreated me to call upon Madame Orio; she wished to see me, and, feeling certain of not meeting Angela, I paid her a visit the same evening.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Who can at this age beget children according to the ordinary and familiar course of nature?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Both of us: she—the ill-fated, the abandoned; and I—the faithful, devoted friend, the dreamer, and, if you like it, a superfluous man, a failure capable of nothing but coughing and dreaming, and perhaps sacrificing myself.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Aristotle has stated the dimensions of a cuttlefish as five cubits, or nine feet two inches.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It could not be that a free citizen of New-York, who had wronged no man, nor violated any law, should be dealt with thus inhumanly.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

First, that I was a free citizen of New-York; and secondly, that I was wrongfully held in bondage.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Old Doc left a fine collection of notes on Lani anatomy and perhaps you could do with a little review.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

The governor of Cuba accordingly used the utmost exertions and assembled a flotilla, consisting of nineteen sail, on board of which were 1400 soldiers, above forty cannon, with a quantity of powder, balls, and gun-flints, besides two artillerymen, who, with the artillery stood under the immediate command of the captain Rodrigo Martin.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

We Athenians entered into war against the Lacedaemonians and their allies with a fleet consisting of not less than three hundred line-of-battle ships, including those in dock as well as those afloat.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

He made a jump, intending to take the jelly away from the Indian maiden, but Curly and Flop cried out: "No, you don't!
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

The cold and reserved brow of the Puritan became still more thoughtful; the young men looked grave, but resolute; the maidens of the household grew pale, shuddered, and whispered hurriedly together; while the little Ruth, and a female child of nearly her own age, named Martha, clung close to the side of the mistress of the family, who, having nothing new to learn, had taught herself to assume the appearance of a resolution she was far from feeling.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

Be sure you have a full complement of necessary instruments, including sextants, a stadimeter, binoculars, watches, stop watch, dividers, parallel rulers, pencils, work books; also all necessary books, such as smooth and deck log books, several volumes of Bowditch, Nautical Almanacs, Azimuth Tables, Pilot books, Light and Buoy lists, Star Identification Tables, etc.
— from Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Among the other members of the Court are a former Secretary of State of the United States (Justice Day); two former Attorneys General of the United States (Justices McKenna and McReynolds); a former Chief Justice of Massachusetts (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the distinguished son and namesake of an illustrious father); a former Chief Justice of Wyoming (Justice Van Devanter); and a former Chancellor of New Jersey (Justice Pitney).
— from Our Changing Constitution by Charles W. (Charles Wheeler) Pierson

[255] and followed it with a fervent cheer: “O Nyoda, here’s to you, Our hearts will e’er be true, We will never find your equal
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey

Method and Fundamental Conceptions of Natural Science.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

Several of the accomplices in the assassination found refuge in Tudela, a frontier city of Navarre and on January 27, 1486, Ferdinand wrote to the magistrates there affectionately requesting that, if the inquisitors should send for the accused, all aid should be rendered, seeing that he had given orders to obey such requisitions throughout his own kingdoms.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The idea of attempting to deflect one's niblick from the line originally mapped out for it as it enters the sand is too amazing and too utterly unsound to merit any further comment or notice, except to say that it would be impossible to deflect the club head from the line of travel mapped out for it at this moment without materially reducing the force of the blow, and when one is hitting into heavy sand, to get underneath the ball and in many cases to get it out of the bunker without even touching it with the club, every pound of force that can be put into the club is necessary.
— from The Soul of Golf by P. A. (Percy Adolphus) Vaile