After the concert some of the passengers proposed that a subscription be raised to help the work at Tuskegee, and the money to support several scholarships was the result.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

With regard to religious ceremonies, the administration of affairs both civil and military, and the condition of all orders of the people at home and abroad, some practices he corrected, others which had been laid aside he revived; and some regulations he introduced which were entirely new.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But, on the other hand the internal state of these religions, the infidelity and hypocrisy of the upper orders, the indifference towards all religion, in even the better part of the common people, during the last days of the republic, and under the Caesars, and the corrupting principles of the philosophers, had exercised a very pernicious influence on the manners, and even on the constitution.—W.] Note 15 ( return )
— 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

Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth[obs3], in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth[obs3], sooth to say[obs3], bona fide, in foro conscientiae[Lat]; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

She returned in about an hour to take away; and there came with her a man who had a great bunch of keys at his waist, and whose manner convinced me that he was the jailor.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

and as if scorning to say more to the frightened and shamefaced count, he lashed the heaving flanks of his sweating chestnut gelding with all the anger the count had aroused and flew off after the hounds.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Haley made a turn or two about the boat, and then, coming up, seated himself near her, and began saying something to her in an indifferent undertone.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

At the organization meeting of the national association twenty-six coffee-roasting establishments in the Mississippi Valley were represented at the conference held May 26–27 in the Planters Hotel, St. Louis.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Though the peafowls invariably roost in trees, yet they make their nests on the ground, and ordinarily on a bank raised above the common level.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol 7, No. 3, March 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

I admit that I am a selfish and comfort-loving woman; and I like to see pretty things around me, and an abundance of them; and if I can only have these at the cost of being charged with ostentation and display, very well, I will pay the price.
— from Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume I) by William Black

There was no time for more; and as she looked out at the cathedral as they moved on, she recollected her resolutions, and blamed herself for her failures, but still in a soothed and happier frame of hope.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Sabbath afternoon the families came in their wagons as far as the creek, where they were met by neighbors on this side, ferried across by Andrew Mitchell, and conveyed to the home of Mr. Wadsworth.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

While Napoleon was complaining bitterly about the means by which Colonel Czernicheff obtained information about our armies, General Lauriston, our ambassador in Petersburg, bought not only the most detailed information about the disposition of the Russian forces, but also the copper plates on which were engraved the immense map of the Muscovite empire.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

Then they sent one of their company on land, who presently returned, and brought a great platter full of venison dressed by themselves, and they caused him to eat with them.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

"And these cousins they talk about?"
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

As illustrating the firmness of Governor Hayes in adhering to convictions, we give below a letter addressed to Hon.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

The whole plant has a disagreeable odour, and its juice, subjected to the action of the fire, emits a vapour so powerful as to cause vertigo and vomiting.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

And these chemical materials are obtained, either directly or indirectly, from the air, water, or earth.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson