The site of his home was that now occupied by the Chicago and Northwestern Depot on Wells Street.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"I'm the last man to give in to the cry about new doctors, or new parsons either—whether they're Bulstrode's men or not.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And to the lonely boy came a new dawn of sympathy and inspiration.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

After her death he was contracted to Anne, or Constance, a natural daughter of the emperor Frederic 499 the Second; but as the bride had not attained the years of puberty, Vataces placed in his solitary bed an Italian damsel of her train; and his amorous weakness bestowed on the concubine the honors, though not the title, of a lawful empress.
— 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

" She then gave a full account of all her adventures since their parting, and dwelt much on the charms and noble disposition of the Princess Haiatelnefous, to whose friendly assistance she owed so much.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The case admitted no difference of opinion: they must go to the drawing-room directly.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

No wonder, that with such a danger before their eyes the Shilluk should be most careful not to let the king die what we should call a natural death of sickness or old age.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Somewhere or other among these myriads Samoa is concealed, and not discoverable on the map.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The humanity of the suggestion hardly tallied with the blood-thirstiness of which he was at the same time so unjustly accused—although it might well be doubted whether the commander-in-chief, even if he could witness unflinchingly the destruction of five thousand soldiers on the battle-field, would dare to confront a new demonstration of schoolmaster Houwaerts and his fellowpedants.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96 by John Lothrop Motley

The maps of Munster constituted a new departure of the Ptolemies in this respect, and were intended to represent the later discoveries in the new world.
— from The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Henry Cruse Murphy

Should they have suspicions that some in their circle are not deserving of confidence or do not have the qualities from which loyal, useful associates can be made, they delude themselves with the belief that they can engender a sufficient desire in the inadequate one to compel him to be loyal and efficient in order that the confidence and admiration of the chief may be requited.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

As the child is working out of babyhood, every day counting (as no day of half illness in childhood can count), and well into boyhood, the single principle already outlined, of leaving the little individuality to establish its own activities and socialities, seems sufficient, as the illustrations appended, I believe, prove.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

The undisputed possession of a custom for so many years converts it into the legal property of the nation, whence it derives a sacred character, and nobody dreams of meddling with it.
— from The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst

Rowlands at this time had with him, at his entrenched camp at New Derby, only a wing of the 80th, a couple of guns, and 200 Swazis.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

The manners and customs of ancient chivalry are, nevertheless, deserving of regret.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

Of all whom I have seen die, fortune has disposed their countenances and no design of theirs; and even of those who in ancient times have made away with themselves, there is much to be considered whether it were a sudden or a lingering death.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne