Having arrived in Elis, and taken over the Elean mercenaries, who were five hundred in number, as well as a thousand citizen soldiers and the Tarentine cavalry, 240 he marched to the relief of Triphylia.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But, ere I proceed with my description, I must express my gratitude to the excellent missionary of Battambong, the Abbé E. Silvestre, who, with exceeding courtesy and indefatigable energy, accompanied me everywhere, guided me through the thick forest which covers a portion of the site of the original building, and by whose assistance I was enabled to accomplish so much in a limited time.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

From this point begins the silphion 152 and it extends along the coast from the island of Platea as far as the entrance of the Syrtis.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Indeed mistletoe was recommended as a remedy for the falling sickness by high medical authorities in England and Holland down to the eighteenth century.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Earthy particles, entering into the small veins of the tongue which reach to the heart, when they melt into and dry up the little veins are astringent if they are rough; or if not so rough, they are only harsh, and if excessively abstergent, like potash and soda, bitter.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This Syrian author is ever a malicious, and often an ignorant enemy: the very titles of his chapters are injurious; as how the wicked, as how the impious, as how the viper, &c.
— 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

“A little while ago this young thing, this child of eighteen years, was as happy a wife and mother as any in England; and her lips were blithe with song, which is the native speech of glad and innocent hearts.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The roads are excellent, macadamized as in England, and nearly as well kept; but that "beat-biscuit," a sort of domestic hardtack, in the making of which the flour or dough is beaten long and hard with the rolling-pin, is, in my opinion, a poor substitute for Yankee bread; and those mercilessly hard beds—the macadamizing principle is out of place there, too.
— from Riverby by John Burroughs

I suppose it is what girls call chaff, but you will kindly remember that I am too stupid, if you like, always to know when you are in earnest and when you are not, so please don’t do it.
— from The Yellow House; Master of Men by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Now, too, Rossini banished the piano from the orchestra, where it had been allowed to remain long after its expulsion as an orchestral instrument from the bands of Germany and (thanks to Gluck) of France.
— from The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

I whispered to Evan, looking down the row of women of all ages and, if expression may indicate, all grades, who, dressed and undressed in lavish opulence, were lolling about, much as if expecting a call to go upon the stage and take part in some spectacle, but that the clothes and jewels were too magnificent to be stage properties.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

In that camp the whole command slept on the corn in the big corn-crib; and there was usually a general row before morning, for the place was full of rats, and they would scramble over the boys' bodies and faces, annoying and irritating everybody; and
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Insensibly there was built up in the German mind a conception of Germany and its emperor as of something splendid and predominant as nothing else had ever been before, a godlike nation in “shining armour” brandishing the “good German sword” in a world of inferior—and very badly disposed—peoples.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Why am I excluded, and have to listen in stealth?
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

In the House of Lords they had an intrepid ally in the Earl of Kildare, and in England an agent equally intrepid, in Colonel Richard Talbot, afterwards Earl of Tyrconnell.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Accordingly I employed all the talents God had given me to make M. d'Ainsi a friend to France, and attach him to my brother's interest.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

The absurd abstraction of an intellect verbally formulating all its evidence and carefully estimating the probability thereof by a vulgar fraction by the size of whose denominator and numerator alone it is swayed, is { 93} ideally as inept as it is actually impossible.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James