The Cossacks and Dólokhov galloped after Pétya into the gateway of the courtyard.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[ Quamdiu stabit Colyseus, stabit et Roma; quando cadet Coly seus, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus, (Beda in Excerptis seu Collectaneis apud Ducange Glossar.
— 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

However, in general we talked of our business, and I do not find that he will come to any lower terms than L150, which I think I shall not give him but by law, and so we parted, and I called upon Mr. Crumlum, and did give him the 10s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

(a) archaisms , (b) dialect , (c) classicisms , and (d) gallicisms .
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

She was a proud, brave little chatelaine, and dispensed generously the one hospitality she could offer—the dreams she dreamed—the visions she saw—the imaginings which were her joy and comfort.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy Seal, where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne again, who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and did give us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, having my head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne’s, came home and so to bed, not well, and very ill all night.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At the expiration of a few moments, Quasimodo cast a desperate glance upon the crowd, and repeated in a voice still more heartrending: “Drink!”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

This firm brought out the Universal Cafenoira, a double glass filtration device, in 1916.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"I must throw myself into giving father his supper, I'm afraid," said Janetta, laughing, "so good-night, children, and do go to bed quietly now, for I don't think father will like such a dreadful noise."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The few that still flickered cast a dim, ghostly light.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother; and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

L'APPÉTIT VIENT EN MANGEANT «À quoi sont destinés ces éléphants, ces armes, cet attirail de guerre et ces vaisseaux tout prêts à mettre à
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Recollecting, always, that, for every advantage which may contribute to distinguish our lot from that to which others are doomed by the unhappy spirit of the times, we are indebted to that Divine Providence whose goodness has been so remarkably extended to this rising nation, it becomes us to cherish a devout gratitude, and to implore, from the same Omnipotent source, a blessing on the consultations and measures about to be undertaken for the welfare of our beloved country.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

28 , which is described in Prof. Henry’s own words as follows: “ A B is the horizontal magnet, about seven inches long, and movable on an axis at the center; its two extremities when placed in a horizontal [50] line are about one inch from the north poles of the upright magnets C and D. G and F are two large tumblers containing diluted acid, in each of which is immersed a plate of zinc surrounded with copper; l m s t are four brass thimbles soldered to the zinc and copper of the batteries and filled with mercury.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

When it came to the pie Emma [pg 279] served Clemency and Doctor Gordon, and deliberately omitted James.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

When perfectly cold cover one side of them with a smooth layer of mayonnaise made with jelly (see page 290 ), and colored a delicate green.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

One day Alec Gough was able to render her some slight assistance, her line being obstinately entangled in the snag; but Miss Prosody sternly brought up the boatman to complete the service, and bowed off the interloper with such extreme severity, that Bluebell could not resist bestowing a coquettish and dangerously grateful glance, which set his heart bumping, and instantaneously obliterated the image of his sandy-haired little love.
— from Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, G. C., Mrs.

As conscience, when violated, can and does give rise to an unpleasant feeling of shame in the mind, we have good reason to believe that it exists for the purpose of preventing us from doing shameful actions, just as our eyes are intended, amongst other things, to prevent us from walking over precipices.
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland