Ecclesiam furibundus introiit, inde custode remoto papam per gulam accepit, distraxit pugnis calcibusque percussit, et tanquam brutum animal intra limen ecclesiæ acriter calcaribus cruentavit; et latro tantum dominum per capillos et brachia, Jesû bono interim dormiente, detraxit, ad domum usque deduxit, inibi catenavit et inclusit.
— 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

By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Then he kept Mrs. Barry’s accounts; copied my own interminable correspondence with my lawyers and the agents of all my various property; took a hand at piquet or backgammon of evenings with me and my mother; or, being an ingenious lad enough (though of a mean boorish spirit, as became the son of such a father), accompanied my Lady Lyndon’s spinet with his flageolet; or read French and Italian with her: in both of which languages her Ladyship was a fine scholar, and with which he also became conversant.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He had, accordingly, hoisted himself, during the first verses of the prologue, with the aid of the pillars of the reserve gallery, to the cornice which ran round the balustrade at its lower edge; and there he had seated himself, soliciting the attention and the pity of the multitude, with his rags and a hideous sore which covered his right arm.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The engineer corked them by means of a stopper through which passed a glass tube, bored at its lower extremity, and intended to be plunged into the acid by means of a clay stopper secured by a rag.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

I've been an Indian long enough.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard

But Baleka and I loved each other, for we were both lonely, and she clung to me like a creeper to the only tree in a plain, and though I was young, I learned this: that to be wise is to be strong, for though he who holds the assegai kills, yet he whose mind directs the battle is greater than he who kills.
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Above, all was blackness, but at its lower edge the curtain was fringed with red and green flames, marking the explosion of the shells directly over the ditch and parapet in front of us.
— from A Soldier of the Legion by Edward Morlae

The interior is built of Portland stone, which is more easily obtained in large blocks, and is less expensive in the working.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

You've been at it long enough, goodness knows.”
— from Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

Tomorrow, when you are going home, get off your horse and walk into the Ghoda bush at its lower extremity.
— from Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

If N G E S be the meridian of Greenwich, the position of any place, B, is determined, when its latitude, Q C B, and its longitude, E C Q, are known.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville