Their diet and exercises were carefully inspected by the Roman emperor; and when Innocence had earned her discharge, by a long course of meritorious service, the faithful animal was again restored to the freedom of her native woods.
— 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

I saw several processions of priests, in gold, and scarlet, and purple, and yellow dresses, and figures as big as life carried on men’s shoulders, and flags, and crosses.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

Austria could not withdraw her unqualified threats without admitting error and defeat, Russia could not desert Serbia without disgrace, Germany stood behind Austria, France was bound to Russia by a long confederacy of mutual support, and it was impossible for England to witness the destruction of France or the further strengthening of a loud and threatening rival.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Billet and Legros , contemporaries of Millet, still living, and Lerolle , a man of present-day note, are perhaps the most considerable of the painters of rural subjects to-day.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

Here the central capsule is surrounded by a large crown of metamorphosed stamens.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

Nothing annoyed Karl more than for us to suggest, if Sigmund happened to be a little cross or mournful, “Suppose you just go home, Karl, and fetch the ‘lamb-rabbit-lion.’
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Their diet and exercises were carefully inspected by the Roman emperor; and, when Innocence had earned her discharge by a long course of meritorious service, the faithful animal was again restored to the freedom of her native woods.”
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson

Though we shall have no more the pleasure of his lisping and laughing, he shall have no more the pain of crying, nor of being sick, nor of dying: and hath wholly escaped the trouble of schooling, and all other sufferings of boys, and the riper and deeper griefs of riper years, this poor life being all along but a linked chain of many sorrows and many deaths.
— from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives by John Richard Vernon

At length Baptista Pius, by aid of some emendations of his preceptor, Philippus Beroaldus, to which he had access, and by a laborious collation of MSS., succeeded in a great measure in restoring the depraved text of his author to its original purity.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop