During the régime of Sir George Arthur, Mr. Harrison was Secretary of the Province and a member of the Executive Council; and at a later period he was Judge of the County and Surrogate Courts.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

In the warm climate of Assyria, which solicited a luxurious people to the gratification of every sensual desire, a youthful conqueror preserved his chastity pure and inviolate; nor was Julian ever tempted, even by a motive of curiosity, to visit his female captives of exquisite beauty, who, instead of resisting his power, would have disputed with each other the honor of his embraces.
— 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

During the night the undertakers had executed their melancholy office, and wrapped the corpse in the winding-sheet, which, whatever may be said about the equality of death, is at least a last proof of the luxury so pleasing in life.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When opening the door some servants hold it ajar and hold a long parley with the person on the steps, as if afraid they wished to enter for the purpose of murder or theft.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Miss Fairlie joined us in the afternoon, looking pale and depressed, and altogether unlike herself.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

the Size of a large Pigion.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Marchand, N.L. Recherches organographiques et organogéniques sur le Coffea arabica L. Paris , 1864.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Of such a character, in such an age, superstition took a firm and lasting possession; after the first license of his youth, Basil the Second devoted his life, in the palace and the camp, to the penance of a hermit, wore the monastic habit under his robes and armor, observed a vow of continence, and imposed on his appetites a perpetual abstinence from wine and flesh.
— 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

[The Middle Classes.] PASCAL (Abbe), chaplain at Limoges prison in 1829; gentle old man.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

,” said Colin, who was a little piqued in spite of himself; “I don’t suppose I am good for much; and I never thought of being his nurse.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The warrior wears the Assyrian pointed helmet, and couches a long ponderous spear, as in the act of charging the enemy.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

It was a large place, and also a very poor neighborhood.
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

Here the Middle Term (men) is distributed in neither premise, yet the indisputable conclusion is a logical proposition.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

As soon as his eyes opened they rested on the police agent, sitting quietly by the bedside, with a loaded pistol in his hand.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

Although Liddy persisted in her belief that doors would prove no obstacles to our disturbers.
— from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Overgrown Garden at Llanerck, Pennsylvania.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

At a large public dinner, during the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, I sat next to George Stephenson.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage