The captive barbarians, exchanging death for slavery, were distributed among the provincials, and assigned to those districts (in Gaul, the territories of Amiens, Beauvais, Cambray, Treves, Langres, and Troyes, are particularly specified)
— 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

With respect to marriage, though after one and twenty a parent seems to have no right to withhold his consent on any account; yet twenty years of solicitude call for a return, and the son ought, at least, to promise not to marry for two or three years, should the object
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Up among my workmen, then to Whitehall, and there at Privy Seal and elsewhere did business, and among other things met with Mr. Townsend, who told of his mistake the other day, to put both his legs through one of his knees of his breeches, and went so all day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On closer examination it may be observed that the papillæ of the tip of the tongue are markedly congested, and that a petechial spot is to be seen on its frenum, on the palpebral conjunctiva, or here and there on the surface of the body, more especially where there are erosions, eczema or other skin lesions.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one, generates the exclusive activity of the other.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But, of course, as I had no wish to put an end to the conference, I assented to a proposition so very obvious, and one, too, of whose truth I had all along been sufficiently aware.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Then knit as many plain rounds as there are plain stitches between 2 intakes.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

"With God all things are possible," said the deputy reverently.
— from Alive in the Jungle: A Story for the Young by Eleanor Stredder

The essential facts of the case, as they at present stand, would come home much more closely to the popular mind of both continents if we called this strip of sea the Straits of New York, and classed our liners, not as the successors of Columbus's caravels, but simply as what they are: giant ferry-boats plying with clockwork punctuality between the twin landing-stages of the English-speaking world.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

Do not be disheartened if now and then a public school superintendent or teacher looks disapprovingly or with a faint touch of scorn on the C. L. S. C.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3 by Chautauqua Institution

"Since you insist; also to a petit souper, a parti carré , with Aimée and Louise.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

The land was rolling, with here and there a prairie shut in by a border of oak or cotton-wood trees.
— from A Country Idyl, and Other Stories by Sarah Knowles Bolton

The royal residences of the old Dukes of Tuscany were numerous, but among them all, that at Pratolina, so associated with Francesco Primo and Bianca Capella, is perhaps the most interesting, and here Mrs. Kinney drove her guests, where they picnicked on a hillside which their hostess called the Mount of Vision because Mrs. Browning stood on it; Mr. Browning spoke of the genius of his wife, “losing himself in her glory,” said Mrs. Kinney afterward, while Mrs. Browning lay on the grass and slept.
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

“No; he has already been chosen, but his name will not be announced to any person save one before the Emperor dies.”
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr