These feminine garments are all, as a rule, more elaborately embroidered, more adorned with fringes and tassels, than those of the men.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

As regards merely empirical existence, it may easily be shown that each quality exists on its own account, but in the Notion they only are, through one another, and by virtue of an inward necessity.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He has already received my earlier embassage.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

viii.) of which the list of Bayeux knights in the Norman Roll of the Red book is only an abridgement, says, in speaking of Grimoult, 'in carcere regis apud Rothomagum mortuus est; et sepultus in cimiterio Sti.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

I asked, rubbing my eyes, entirely bewildered as to the cause of such rough usage.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

But I have already made several essays on myself, and I find that the obstinate resolution which an insatiable thirst of ample retribution inspires is not to be shaken, and renders me equal even to this task.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

All these hundreds of years the dark recesses of the forest remained practically unknown; but at some safe and convenient distance from the towns of Venta or Regnum—handy for support, and yet sufficiently rural—Roman generals, prefects, and rich merchants erected elaborate villas, whose ruins are even now occasionally discovered by the ploughman as he laboriously turns over the grudging soil of Hants.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper