Note 140 ( return ) [ The province and city of Tripoli are described by Leo Africanus (in Navigatione et Viaggi di Ramusio, tom. i. Venetia, 1550, fol. 76, verso) and Marmol, (Description de l'Afrique, tom. ii.
— 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

The waters can be plainly seen pouring upwards through fissures in the rocky bottom, like an inverted Niagara, eighty feet beneath the surface.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

On the day after his arrival Gylippus succeeded in capturing the Athenian fort at Labdalum, and the command of this position gave increased facilities for the construction of a third counterwall, which was forthwith taken in hand, and carried in the direction of Labdalum, until it crossed the blockading line at its northern end.
— from Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides

More than that, the smell of the man's hand would be less apparent, if not entirely absent.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

But he was a pitiable object, limping about with his broken leg, and I never even offered to fight him again.
— from The Life Story of a Black Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

The three great Disputations described by Luther as “ Initium negocii evangelici .”
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar