By a subsequent regulation, it should seem, that the same provisions were extended to nuns and bishops; and that all persons of the ecclesiastical order were rendered incapable of receiving any testamentary gifts, and strictly confined to the natural and legal rights of inheritance.
— 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

Anne hurried home after breakfast and so remained in blissful ignorance of the disturbance which presently resulted in the Barry household until the late afternoon, when she went down to Mrs. Lynde’s on an errand for Marilla.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But a sensuous ripening is needed first, such as myth and ornament betray in their exuberance.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Another blast and shock, right in his face, almost stunned him, and he faltered.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

261 In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

And Sir Simon, it seems, who has been a sad rake in his younger days, swore he never saw so easy an air, so fine a shape, and so graceful a presence.—The Lady Darnford said, I was a sweet girl.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Then recalling the conversation of Mr. Lincoln, at City Point, I sat down at the table, and wrote off the terms, which I thought concisely expressed his views and wishes, and explained that I was willing to submit these terms to the new President, Mr. Johnson, provided that both armies should remain in statu quo until the truce therein declared should expire.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

So Mr. Moore and my wife set out before, and my uncle and I staid for his son Thomas, who, by a sudden resolution, is preparing to go with us, which makes me fear something of mischief which they design to do us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She began pulling her hair and beating her breast as she ran into the street.
— from Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska

The bulk of the machine-guns of the Division were massed in Trench 86 near the Bowery, a small rise in the shape of a tumulus just east of Auchonvillers.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Iesus Christ, as I can testifie he was.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

While one man makes a fortune by a sudden rise in stocks or gold, hundreds lose by an equally sudden fall in the same commodities.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

IMG "Why, it's Shorty," said the General, recognizing him at once, "who ran back at Stone River, in a heavy fire, and helped me from under my horse.
— from Si Klegg, Book 5 The Deacon's Adventures at Chattanooga in Caring for the Boys by John McElroy

But now,—or rather in 1860, when secession commenced,—the northern States, owing to the increase of population in the North, sent one hundred and fifty representatives to Congress, having nineteen States and thirty-eight senators; whereas the South, with fifteen States and thirty senators, was entitled by its population to only ninety representatives, although by a special rule in its favour, which I will presently explain, it was in fact allowed a greater number of representatives in proportion to its population than the North.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

According to his design there should have been a simultaneous rising in the capital and in Etruria on occasion of the consular elections; the failure of the former and the outbreak of the latter movement endangered his person as well as the whole success of his undertaking.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

A great ache came into her heart--the first heart-hunger of the homesick--and she slipped away behind the curtain to throw herself upon her little white bed and seek relief in stifled sobs.
— from The Gaunt Gray Wolf: A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob by Dillon Wallace

>From there, I went on to determine manpower resources by anticipated skills requirements, identify and set in motion urgent-immediate procedures to acquire (by standard practices or otherwise)
— from A Grandpa's Notebook Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication by Meyer Moldeven