Savast is the Armenian form ( Sevasd ) of Sebaste, the modern SIVAS.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Or incomincian le dolenti note a farmisi sentire; or son venuto la` dove molto pianto mi percuote.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

And psychologically it is quite sound, for a frequent symptom of such melancholy as Hamlet's is a more or less complete paralysis, or even perversion, of the emotion of love.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

There she made a fresh sign of silence, and opened a second door concealed by tapestry.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Europe and Asia were open to the besiegers; but the strength and provisions of the Greeks must sustain a daily decrease; nor could they indulge the expectation of any foreign succor or supply.
— 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

What does one expect from business save that it should furnish money, to be used in turn for making more money and for support of self and family, for buying books and pictures, tickets to concerts which may afford culture, and for paying taxes, charitable gifts and other things of social and ethical value?
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I won’t be able to go around for six or seven weeks and I’ll miss the new lady teacher.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Geology and mineralogy were to us the sole objects of life, and in connection with these studies many a fair specimen of stone, chalk, or metal did we break with our hammers.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Never for an instant did they accept the doctrine that the North should be satisfied merely by the prevention of any further spread of slavery; they believed the system should be exterminated root and branch.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For sin has played many evil tricks upon us, and one has been the infusing into us a false sense of shame.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

One of his biographers informs us, that while they were living happily together, suicide was with Mrs. Shelley a favourite subject of speculation and conversation.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

The bones, squirrel skins and turkey feathers that were scattered about in front of the door were raked into a pile and set on fire; a fresh supply of stove-wood was cut; and the boats were unloaded and their cargoes piled up outside of the cabin in readiness to be transferred to the interior as soon as the purifying process had been completed.
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

An English high-class journal dared to demand that women who are unchaste shall henceforth be dealt with “not as human beings, but as foul sewers,” or some such “material nuisance” without souls, without rights, and without responsibility.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

Deep in Durham's Gothic shade, where in earlier days the prince-bishop, whose worldly franchises invested him with a faint shadow of sovereign power, bearing alike [Pg 150] the sword and the pastoral staff, "looked down," as Dr. Freeman says, "from his fortified height, on a flock which he had to guard no less against worldly than against ghostly foes."
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

Darrell is unjust to the more exquisite female characters of a Novelist, admirable for strength of sense, correctness of delineation, terseness of narrative, and lucidity of style-nor less admirable for the unexaggerated nobleness of sentiment by which some of her heroines are notably distinguished.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

Here was a fine spring of sparkling water, and all stopped long enough to get a refreshing drink.
— from Dave Porter at Star Ranch; Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer

A few species of Siphoneæ have a very wide range, two British species of Codium occurring in New Zealand.
— from Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) Woodward

A quiet spirit sees its own expression, a harmony of self with external form, in the even lines and flat spaces of some Dutch etching.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes