I think no better exposure of slavery can be made than is made by the laws of the states in which slavery exists.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Abbe de la Bleterie (Histoire de Jovien, tom. i. p. 1-238) has composed an elaborate history of his short reign; a work remarkably distinguished by elegance of style, critical disquisition, and religious prejudice.
— 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

(b.) Examples of stems in -s- , or -r- for -s- , with nominative -s , genitive -ris , are: -aes , -aeris aes , Ne., copper , bronze ; in the Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Being told at La Scalea that she had been carried off to Palermo by some Sicilian sailors, he betook himself thither, as quickliest he might, and there, after much search, finding that she had been presented to the king and was by him kept under ward at La Cuba, he was sore chagrined and lost well nigh all hope, not only of ever having her again, but even of seeing her.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

An' she looked at him an' there he was with his big eyes open, starin' at her as sensible as she was herself.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But enquiring of Sir J. Minnes, he told me that he heard she was better last night.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

By the help of a small bucket and our hats, we bailed her out, got on board, hoisted the boats, eat our supper, changed our clothes, gave (as is usual) the whole history of our day's adventures to those who had staid on board, and having taken a night-smoke, turned-in.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be ex officio State Librarian.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

And therefore we may expect that the first two elements of good architecture should be expressive of some great truths commonly belonging to the whole race, and necessary to be understood or felt by them in all their work that they do under the sun.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

But even on such, I presume improbable notion, there are, as it strikes me, immense difficulties, and none greater than the width of the coal-fields.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Aubrey daily entertains me with heroic tales of diving and floating, till I tell them they will become enamoured of some "lady of honour who lives in the sea," grow fishes' tails, and come home no more.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The spores are broadly elliptical or subglobose, 6–7.5µ long.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The stamps are beautifully engraved on steel as usual, and are printed on stout wove paper and perforated 12.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded, the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5. by Mark Twain

To fair Pastora’s grassy tomb To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.
— from The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir by William Collins