Note 21 ( return ) [ The vith Discourse of Fleury on Ecclesiastical History (p. 223-261) contains an accurate and rational view of the causes and effects of the crusades.
— 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

All hens are well worth studying for the piquancy and rich variety of their manners; but by no possibility can there have been other fowls of such odd appearance and deportment as these ancestral ones.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The above actions may be considered as rudimental vestiges of the screaming-fits, which are so frequent and prolonged during infancy.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Their Beefs are small and lean, (two hundred Weight or a little more,) but the Goats, Hogs and Fowls very good, their Sugar course and dirty, and Rum very ordinary; as these Refreshments lay most with People who are in want of other Necessaries, they come to us in Way of bartering, very cheap: A good Hog for an old Cutlash; a fat Fowl for a Span of Brasil Tobacco, (no other Sort being valued, &c .)
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

It was for the relief of distress occasioned by a recent visitation of cholera.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

[ Here we have still more indications of Saul's affectation of despotic power, and of his entrenching upon the priesthood, and making and endeavoring to execute a rash vow or curse, without consulting Samuel or the sanhedrim.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"I see that you set a right value on my son's preaching.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

By sea they immediately sent out privateers, who, falling in with a royal vessel of Macedonia near Cythera, Acts of hostility against Macedonia, brought it with all its crew to Aetolia, and sold ship-owners, sailors, and marines, and finally the ship itself.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But all this did not pass into the popular religion of the Greeks, and it remained for the most part a stranger to these exalted doctrines; and, though we find in this mythology many things capable of a deeper import and more spiritual signification, yet they appear but as rare vestiges of ancient truth—vague presentiments—fugitive tones—momentary flashes, revealing a belief in a supreme Being, an almighty Creator of the universe, and the common Father of mankind.
— from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich von Schlegel

A renewed vote of confidence in their native hero was recorded, and Nehemiah {173} ’s claims to a partnership were altogether and summarily rejected.
— from Jewish Portraits by Magnus, Katie, Lady

It polarises light, and when viewed with the dichroscope shows a remarkable variety of twin colours.
— from The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by John Mastin

It is curious to take a retrospective view of the mode in which the effects of the Leyden phial were announced to the world, on their first discovery.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 by Various

He turned to face the mocking smile of Black Gandil and a rapid volley of questions.
— from Riders of the Silences by Max Brand

The captain was rolling the small end of a cigar in his mouth to prepare it for smoking, the regulations of the ship forbidding any further indulgence below; but when he received this assurance, he withdrew the tobacco with the sort of mystifying simplicity that gets to be a second nature with a regular votary of Neptune, and answered with a coolness of manner that was in ridiculous contrast to the affected astonishment of the words:-- "The devil you did!--Was it in good Dutch?"
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

(and this is a rarer virtue) of publicly and proudly avowing the fact.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

A rear view of a common form of switchboard cabinet, known as the upright type and manufactured by the Dean Company, is shown in Fig.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

COOKING FOR TWO is designed to give in simple and concise style, those things that are essential to the proper selection and preparation of a reasonable variety of food for a family of two individuals.
— from The Boston Cooking-School Magazine (Vol. XV, No. 2, Aug.-Sept., 1910) by Various