It subsequently became a Roman colony, with the title of Julia Augusta.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

in his brief and reckless career, how often have I recalled that foolish act of his.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

She says she never had any intention of taking him, because any one who married him will have to go in with the old folks; but Ruby says that he made such a perfectly beautiful and romantic proposal that it simply swept her off her feet.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

"The astral beings consume vegetables, and drink a nectar flowing from glorious fountains of light and from astral brooks and rivers.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

“ Some bankers are rich men”; (2) “ No bankers are poor men”.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

He turned back and rushed toward his house, running like a hunted animal.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Her nose shall be as red as the coal in thy pipe!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It seems to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[Pg 264] Thirdly, If the Colours made by a Prism placed at the entrance of a Beam of Light into a darken'd Room be successively cast on a second Prism placed at a greater distance from the former, in such manner that they are all alike incident upon it, the second Prism may be so inclined to the incident Rays, that those which are of a blue Colour shall be all reflected by it, and yet those of a red Colour pretty copiously transmitted.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

It is a bridge by which the voice crosses in safety from the lowest to the highest register—a register of transition, but a register withal.
— from The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller

To those who have read it, or only seen extracts from it, the compilation appears far from being contemptible, but Joseph still keeps the copy, though he has made the author a present of one hundred napoleons d'or, and procured him a place of an amanuensis in the chancellory of the Senate, having resolved never to accept any dedication, but wishing also not to hurt the feelings of the author by a refusal.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The principal and most useful of these are—umber, terra di Sienna (both burnt and raw), Spanish brown, and some of the ochres.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

My heart itself would as soon open to thine eyes, under the shield of my bosom, as reveal its secret!
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

If it was only a question of someone from the Lodge following the proper path it would be all right.
— from The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope

He had been useful so far; but a rein was wanted for him, and Pompey decided at last that Cicero might now be recalled.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

And then that, in its turn, became a ruin of plaster and planks and stone.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile

Though delivered on various occasions, these lectures are all on the theme that our modern progress is but a repetition of previous phases of human accomplishment and that whenever men faced certain problems they solved them as well at any time in history as they do now.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

If a thing can be done, an ingenious man can tell how it is to be done, and I wish to be informed how this State interference is to be put in practice, without violence, bloodshed, and rebellion.
— from Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution by Daniel Webster

By-and-by the jogging of the cart shook a piece of sacking from my face, and I could see the driver, a common labourer by his dress, with a fringe of ragged beard all round his face.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton