below this river and on the Stard Side at a fiew Miles from the Rochejhone the hills are high and ruged Containing Coal in great quantities.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

M. Atilius Regulus, cum consul iterum in Africa ex insidiis captus esset duce Xanthippo Lacedaemonio, iuratus missus est ad senatum, ut, nisi redditi essent Poenis captivi nobiles quidam, rediret ipse Carthaginem.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

At the time when the sick and rotten Chandala classes in the whole imperium were Christianized, the contrary type , the nobility, reached its finest and ripest development.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In England, accordingly, the church is continually draining the universities of all their best and ablest members; and an old college tutor who is known and distinguished in Europe as an eminent man of letters, is as rarely to be found there as in any Roman catholic country, In Geneva, on the contrary, in the protestant cantons of Switzerland, in the protestant countries of Germany, in Holland, in Scotland, in Sweden, and Denmark, the most eminent men of letters whom those countries have produced, have, not all indeed, but the far greater part of them, been professors in universities.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

M. Atilius Regulus cum consul iterum in Africa ex insidiis captus esset duce Xanthippo Lacedaemonio, imperatore autem patre Hannibalis Hamilcare, iuratus missus est ad senatum, ut, nisi redditi essent Poenis captivi nobiles quidam, rediret ipse Carthaginem.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What we pay rates and taxes for I don’t know, when any ruffian can come in and break one’s goods.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

All this created a great desire among the inhabitants and soldiers throughout the island, who possessed no commendaries of Indians, to go in quest of such a rich country; consequently, in a very short time, we mustered 220.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The sunburn disappeared from her face and hands, and a rosy colour came into her cheeks...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

“As big as a calf, as a real calf,” chimed in the captain.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By Peter Porcupine, author of the Bloody Buoy, &c., &c. To which is prefixed A Rod for the Backs of the Critics; containing an historical sketch of the present state of political criticism in Great Britain; as exemp [307] lified in the conduct of the Monthly, Critical, and Analytical Reviews, &c., &c. Interspersed with Anecdotes.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

He watched these forms closely and remarked certain changes in their positions, which finally enabled him to determine the period of the planet’s rotation.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

He knew that his case was hopeless, and that when Gilks had said all, Riddell could corroborate it with what had been said last night.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

A Roman Catholic clergyman is the minister of a very ritual religion, and by his profession subject to many restraints.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

If a mass of gun-cotton be enclosed in a capacious vessel from which the air has been removed, and the gun-cotton be ignited by means of a wire made hot by electricity, the cotton will at first only burn in the slow way without flame; but as the gases accumulate and exert a pressure which retards the abstraction of heat accompanying their formation, the temperature will rise and attain the degree necessary for the complete and rapid chemical changes involved in the flaming combustion.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

At which she began to read aloud, my lady to blush and change colour a hundred times in a minute: I ready to die with fear; Madam the Countess, in infinite amazement, my lady interrupting every word the Duchess read, by prayers and entreaties, which heightened her curiosity, and being young and airy, regarded not the indecency to which she preferr'd her curiosity, who still laughing, cried she was resolv'd to read it out, and know the constitution of her heart; when my lady, whose wit never fail'd her, cried, 'I beseech you, madam, let us have so much complaisance for Melinda as to ask her consent in this affair, and then I am pleas'd you should see what love I can make upon occasion:' I took the hint, and with a real confusion, cried--'I implore you, madam, not to discover my weakness to Madam, the Duchess; I would not for the world--be thought to love so passionately, as your ladyship, in favour of Alexis , has made me profess, under the name of Sylvia to Philander '.
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

But though Miss Brown answered not a word, he did not repeat his question, for such a rare crimson came into the little teacher's face, that he hid it away in his breast, and acted as if he would never let it out again.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

See also Rassam Cylinder, col. iii.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow