It fortunately happened, that there was at this time a squadron of English ships in the road, commanded by Sir Richard Hawkins, who being informed of the past sufferings and present situation of Mr. Lithgow, came the next day ashore, with a proper guard, and received him from the merchants.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and resembles in
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I accept your offer with all possible gratitude, and return you a thousand thanks for the generosity of your proposal.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The artistic evolution of the lion rampant can be readily traced in the examples and explanations which follow, but, as will be understood, the employment in the case of some of these models cannot strictly be said to be confined within a certain number of years, though the details and periods given are roughly accurate, and sufficiently so to typify the changes which have occurred.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal goldfish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

At the head of the harbour there is a spring of clear water coming out of a cave, and there are poplars growing all round it.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

rs, as Persians, Greeks, and Romans of old, as modern Turks do now their commons, to encourage them to fight, ut cadant infeliciter .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He was by no means a thief, and was, as peasants go, a rich man; but this watch so fascinated him that he could not restrain himself.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is the Paris of Catherine de Medicis at the Tuileries;*—the Paris of Henri II., at the Hôtel de Ville, two edifices still in fine taste;—the Paris of Henri IV., at the Place Royale: façades of brick with stone corners, and slated roofs, tri-colored houses;—the Paris of Louis XIII., at the Val-de-Grace: a crushed and squat architecture, with vaults like basket-handles, and something indescribably pot-bellied in the column, and thickset in the dome;—the Paris of Louis XIV., in the Invalides: grand, rich, gilded, cold;—the Paris of Louis XV., in Saint-Sulpice: volutes, knots of ribbon, clouds, vermicelli and chiccory leaves, all in stone;—the Paris of Louis XVI., in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III., resembles the laws of Minos,—it is called in architecture, “the Messidor” ** taste;—the Paris of Napoleon in the Place Vendome: this one is sublime, a column of bronze made of cannons;—the Paris of the Restoration, at the Bourse: a very white colonnade supporting a very smooth frieze; the whole is square and cost twenty millions.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

He had done his military service in a provincial garrison and returned to Paris to follow his trade.
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

Castration causes a persistent growth and retarded atrophy of the thymus.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

So soon as one passes from general terms to the question of individual good, one encounters individuality; for everyone in the differing quality and measure of their personality and powers and possibilities, good and right must be different.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

With a proper guide and reasonable care, however, there is little danger to be apprehended, or at least no more than is encountered by climbers among the Swiss Alps.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

She cast the thought from her in horror and piteous grief, and reiterated always her passionate gratitude for his preservation.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

I peeked out of the window and saw the man, and I told Pa, and Pa got a revolver and began shooting through the wire screen to the kitchen window, and I saw the man drop the basket and begin to climb over the fence real sudden, and I went out and began to groan, as though somebody was dying in the alley, and I brought in the basket with the mackerel and green corn, and told Pa that from the groaning out there I guess he had killed the grocery delivery man, and I wanted Pa to go out and help me hunt for the body, but he said he was going to take the midnight train to go out west on some business, and Pa lit out.
— from The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Not infrequently a pig gets a ride home from market in the cart of his new owner.
— from Wonder Stories of Travel by Ernest Ingersoll

Though Nero built a public gymnasium, and Roman gentlemen attached private ones to their country-seats, it gradually fell into disuse, or existed only for ignoble purposes.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various