A mild breeze out of the east rippled the surface of the water.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Almost immediately after his arrival, he was seized by order of the Emperor Rudolph, and thrown into prison.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This particular injustice and oppression to women, which is, to common apprehensions, more obvious than all the rest, admits of remedy without interfering with any other mischiefs: and there can be little doubt that it will be one of the earliest remedied.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

This, as rebuilt under Hadrian, with the rotunda which we know, must have been one of the earliest Roman buildings in solid mortar-masonry.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

But the one is the head of the Roman Empire, the Prince that shall come; the other is the Antichrist, the beast out of the earth (Rev. xiii:11).
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Accompanied by one of the early risers of the town, I crossed the fine bridge over the Appomattox, and strolled over Archer's Hill, whereon the Americans planted their cannon and disturbed the inmates of Bollingbrook.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The Protestant Doctrine of Divorce 60-85 a ) Opinions of Luther and the Continental Reformers 60-71 b ) Opinions of the English Reformers 71-85 III.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

[Pg 140] TWO PAINTED STUCCO FACES FROM UXMAL Two human faces molded in stucco and painted were discovered in a small stone-lined chamber situated beneath one of the end rooms of the Casa del Gobernador in the ruins of Uxmal, northern Yucatan.
— from The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras by Thomas William Francis Gann

He is the beast out of the earth (Rev. xiii) having two horns like a lamb, but speaking as a dragon.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein