I’ve a picture like it in one of my books—crowds of lovely people and children with garlands and branches with blossoms on them, everyone laughing and dancing and crowding and playing on pipes.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ambrosian Library, a public library in Milan founded by the cardinal archbishop Federigo Borromeo, a relation of St. Charles Borromeo, who sent scholars, among them Antonio Olgiati, all over Europe to acquire books.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Formerly, different ranks, different neighbourhoods, different trades and professions, lived in what might be called different worlds; at present, to a great degree in the same.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

110 His rising fortunes were soon blasted by the disgrace and execution of his illustrious father; and Theodosius obtained, as a favor, the permission of retiring to a private life in his native province of Spain.
— 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

Lay long caressing my wife and talking, she telling me sad stories of the ill, improvident, disquiett, and sluttish manner that my father and mother and Pall live in the country, which troubles me mightily, and I must seek to remedy it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The very ecstasy of adventurous and passionate love is frequently connected with a certain cruel tendency.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

In a previous letter I think I wrote you that "mug" and "milk" had given Helen more trouble than all the rest.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It will be of a pretty little infant.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The price of provisions underwent no change, in consequence of the abundance previously laid in.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

A more intimate acquaintance with the people of this globe, and juster modes of reasoning, have dissipated these illusions; and if I mistake not, the laws of the mind will, in no distant day, be traced with an accuracy and precision little inferior to those which prevail in most branches of physics.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 8, April, 1835 by Various

Personal liberty in the Philippines is as absolute as personal liberty in the United States or England.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

But he was thinking about weather, which was an unusual subject to begin with for a person living in a domed city.
— from A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee

There is a pretty legend in the Chronicle of the Church of Tours that the tomb of Abélard was opened at her death and her remains laid in [p. 328] it, and that the arms of the dead man opened wide to receive her whose embrace the hard world had denied him in life.
— from Peter Abélard by Joseph McCabe

—Cicero says the fourth Apollo gave laws to the Arcadians (comp. infra , p. 331 ): “Quem Arcades Νομιον appellant, quod ab eo se leges ferunt accepisse,” id. iii. 23; vide also Plato, “Leges,” i. 1. CHAPTER XI DILUVIAN TRADITIONS IN AFRICA AND AMERICA.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

Item es la merced de sus altezas porque los inquisidores é sus oficiales clerigos que trabajan en la dicha inquisicion sean aprovechados é honrados de mandar á sus embajadores que procuren en su nombre un indulto del papa para que sus altezas puedan nombrar á las dichas personas de la dicha inquisicion en ciertas iglesias de sus reinos en las primeras dignidades é beneficios que vacaren é que aquellos sean reservados para los nombrados de sus altezas.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The weather was fine next day, and the Castle party drove ten miles to a rustic racecourse, where there was a meeting of a very insignificant character, but interesting to Mr. Armstrong, to whom a horse was a source of perennial delight, and a fair excuse for a long gay drive, and a picnic luncheon in carriages and on coach-boxes.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

We have visited several of the palaces—immense thick-walled piles, with great stone staircases, tesselated marble pavements on the floors, (sometimes they make a mosaic work, of intricate designs, wrought in pebbles or little fragments of marble laid in cement,) and grand salons hung with pictures by Rubens, Guido, Titian, Paul Veronese, and so on, and portraits of heads of the family, in plumed helmets and gallant coats of mail, and patrician ladies in stunning costumes of centuries ago.
— from The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02 by Mark Twain