[ The particulars of the journey and illness are taken from Laclantius, c. 17, who may sometimes be admitted as an evidence of public facts, though very seldom of private anecdotes.
— 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

How Hetty's heart beat as Arthur approached her!
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

When it come I begun to be merry, and merry we were, but it was an odd, strange thing to observe of Mr. Andrews what a fancy he hath to raw meat, that he eats it with no pleasure unless the blood run about his chops, which it did now by a leg of mutton that was not above half boiled; but, it seems, at home all his meat is dressed so, and beef and all, and [he] eats it so at nights also.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So to coach back again; and at White Hall light, and saw the soldiers and people running up and down the streets.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Suddenly a splendid hound dashed out of the mist in front, followed by another and another until half-a-dozen or more were bounding and leaping around the girl beside me.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

V. Perikles greatly admired Anaxagoras, and became deeply interested in these grand speculations, which gave him a haughty spirit and a lofty style of oratory far removed from vulgarity and low buffoonery, and also an imperturbable gravity of countenance, and a calmness of demeanour and appearance which no incident could disturb as he was speaking, while the tone of his voice never showed that he heeded any interruption.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Then the students inside held a meeting and passed a resolution asking the government whether they were guaranteed freedom of speech, because if they were not, they would not leave the building merely to be arrested again, as they planned to go on speaking.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

When this species of cyclops appeared on the threshold of the chapel, motionless, squat, and almost as broad as he was tall; squared on the base, as a great man says; with his doublet half red, half violet, sown with silver bells, and, above all, in the perfection of his ugliness, the populace recognized him on the instant, and shouted with one voice,— “‘Tis Quasimodo, the bellringer!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The assertion made a moment ago, that Euripides introduced the spectator on the stage to qualify him the better to pass judgment on the drama, will make it appear as if the old tragic art was always in a false relation to the spectator: and one would be tempted to extol the radical tendency of Euripides to bring about an adequate relation between art-work and public as an advance on Sophocles.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was a very dark night, as the moon had not yet risen; they did not land at the harbour, but, as they had been accustomed, at a creek about two miles below.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He was well aware of their aggressive designs and I submit he assisted in their realization not only as a military technician, but also as a mendacious politician.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

He delighted to get into the country grocery, and there, surrounded by an admiring audience of colored men, and such of the whites as sympathized with him, although secretly, express his opinion, that the principles of the republican party were the only ones upon which a righteous government could be founded, and which would eventually bring the ship of State safely to a secure anchorage.
— from The Nation's Peril. Twelve Years' Experience in the South. Then and Now. The Ku Klux Klan, a Complete Exposition of the Order: Its Purpose, Plans, Operations, Social and Political Significance; The Nation's Salvation. by Anonymous

They do not look before and after, and sigh for what is not.
— from All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov

It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

an nædre ) thus became an adder , a napron became an apron , an nauger : an auger , a numpire : an umpire ; and in psychologically the same way an ewte (older form evete , OE.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Ole Bull accepted the plan heartily, and the king [267] further suggested the 5th of February, the artist’s birthday, as an appropriate time for the pyramid–concert.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

But there is no evidence that he ever subjected himself to the preliminary test, or made an application even to be admitted as a probationer.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 1 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

That the Dutch Company should have two-thirds of the trade at the Moluccas, Banda, and Amboina, and the English one-third.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

Having been an active and successful carpet-bagger twenty-five years before, he had played a part of some importance in the rehabilitation of the Southland and was qualified to speak with authority on the subject.
— from Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman