THERE ARE MOUNTAINS STORED WITH EXHAUSTLESS TREASURES: forests—vast and primeval; and rivers that, tumbling or loitering, run wanton to the sea.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

To this unwelcome guest, the proprietor was compelled to abandon two thirds of his patrimony, but the German, a shepherd and a hunter, might sometimes content himself with a spacious range of wood and pasture, and resign the smallest, though most valuable, portion, to the toil of the industrious husbandman.
— 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

In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse then must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

I speak no ill of war: war almost always enlarges the mind of a people, and raises their character.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Then did they send for a priest, and received the holy sacrament at his hands.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Galland observes that "as much money must be spent in the private families of Constantinople for coffee as for wine at Paris," and relates that it is as common for beggars to ask for money to buy coffee, as it is in Europe to ask for money to buy wine or beer.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Very true,” said Dupin, as he supplied his visiter with a pipe, and rolled towards him a comfortable chair.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

We can therefore make complete abstraction of the extensive quantity of a phenomenon, and represent to ourselves in the mere sensation in a certain momentum, a synthesis of homogeneous ascension from 0 up to the given empirical consciousness, All sensations therefore as such are given only a posteriori, but this property thereof, namely, that they have a degree, can be known a priori.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

[166] The Metropolitan Commissioners, invested with their enlarged powers, made a most thorough inquiry into the [178] condition of the asylums in England and Wales, and presented a Report to Parliament in 1844, which must always possess great historic interest and value.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

Here captured is, as you have learned, a participle; and, representing the act as past at the time indicated by closed , it is a past participle.
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

At eleven in the morning of that Royal-Hunt day, 19th of November 1787, unexpected blare of trumpetting, tumult of charioteering and cavalcading disturbs the Seat of Justice: his Majesty is come, with Garde-des-Sceaux Lamoignon, and Peers and retinue, to hold Royal Session and have Edicts registered.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"What's the matter with Adonis?" inquired Manager Clancy, as his catcher and principal adviser returned to the bench after the second inning.
— from Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

Industry is of all politics and religions: thus Dudley was a Royalist and a Churchman, Yarranton was a Parliamentarian and a Presbyterian, and Abraham Darby was a Quaker.
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

[187] Brothers and sisters in relation to each other have at puberty already reached that state to which old married couples by the exhaustion of youthful passion and the slow usage of daily life gradually approximate.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

It is quite true that the exceptional cases that sometimes arise present apparent rather than real anomalies.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

I’m going to clean him up a bit and put a railing to keep off the children.”
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The advantage in this case would be, that justice would be promptly administered at a small expence, and the evil would be put an end to, instead of remaining as at present a reproach to the Police, arming at the same time every noxious and bad member of Society, with a kind of licence to do offensive acts to the neighbourhood, and the Public at large, with impunity.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun