Note 82 ( return ) [ The Libri Carolini, (Spanheim, p. 443-529,) composed in the palace or winter quarters of Charlemagne, at Worms, A.D. 790, and sent by Engebert to Pope Hadrian I., who answered them by a grandis et verbosa epistola, (Concil.
— 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

She restrained her tears by a great effort until she was alone upstairs, and then gave them vent.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

ROUNDABOUTS, large swings of four compartments, each the size, and very much the shape, of the body of a cart, capable of seating six or eight boys and girls, erected in a high frame, and turned round by men at a windlass.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Should the control ever pass into the wrong hands and the agents of secret societies succeed in capturing a number of the lodges, this great stabilizing force might become a gigantic engine of destruction.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

[90] The whole affair, as conducted on both sides, affords an admirable study of how to follow up an advantage, [273] original or acquired, and of the results that may be obtained by a gallant, even hopeless defence, for the furtherance of a particular object.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He is reported to have been a great eater, and usually took his breakfast in the winter-time before day.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Proof.—If the human body is in no way affected by a given external body, then (II.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Let me see: there was Ben Thornburg, and Beck Jolly, and Squire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and George Ealer, and Billy Youngblood—all A-1 alligator pilots.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He wore his coat buttoned; and his dimpled double chin rested in the folds of a white neckerchief—not one of your stiff-starched apoplectic cravats, but a good, easy, old-fashioned white neckcloth that a man might go to bed in and be none the worse for.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

It may sometimes express a fugitive thought, a brief record of a poetic impression or some little action, or it may be a great epic or dramatic picture.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

The women and children followed, and Hare, with Billy and George, entered last.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey

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— from Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

Ambition, better than brute affection, gives education to our children, and teaches them the love of industry, the pride of independence, the respect for others and themselves!
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

On the other hand, many years ago, long before I had thought of the present subject, I was struck with the fact that, in South America, men of complicated descent between Negroes, Indians, and Spaniards, seldom had, whatever the cause might be, a good expression.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

But in distributing the effort among all the organs, and in giving that alternate rest and action upon which health and strength depend, the elocutionist may strive in vain to equal the model set him by a good extempore speech.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

Just as the cashier was going away, heart-broken at the governor's indifference, Bourdoncle arrived, gaily exclaiming: "Ah!
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola

Every ideal, before it could be embodied, had to pre-exist in some other embodiment; but as when the ultimate purpose of the cosmos is considered it seems to lie beyond any given embodiment, the highest ideal must somehow exist disembodied.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That would, I assure you, be a grave error, and I would earnestly counsel you not to commit it."
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

The Armenian laid his hand on his breast, as if he had made a good sale of it, the coffee-bearer wanted but a sous, and that was charity; and thus, by a mere change of place, that which were but a gingerbread expenditure becomes a rich man’s purchase.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis