But he is come abroad now, for I met him on the rampart just this minute.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anything original risks being copied at once if copyrights are not formally registered or if works are available without payment facilities.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

With money raised from the spoils of the war, he began to construct a new forum, the ground-plot of which cost him above a hundred millions of sesterces 54 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

As he crossed a narrow footbridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the quiet water as if in a mirror.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

The only exception I can think of is the unaccountable memory of certain moments of our childhood, apparently not fitted by their intrinsic interest to survive, but which are perhaps the only incidents we can remember out of the year in which they occurred.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It was also much cleaner, as no fire had ever been built in it.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In the year 1236 certain merchant strangers of cities beyond [19] the seas, to wit, Amiens, Corby, and Nele, for privileges which they enjoyed in this city, gave one hundred pounds towards the charges of conveying water from the town of Teyborne.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

We ought not to mix God in our actions, but with the highest reverence and caution; that poesy is too holy to be put to no other use than to exercise the lungs and to delight our ears; it ought to come from the conscience, and not from the tongue.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Like the swelling tide of the sea, the Saracen hordes had poured over the land; and now, through the Hammerer of the Franks, a voice had spoken: "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." ARCH IN THE ALJAFERIA OF ZARAGOZA.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[Pg 21] of the fight with close attention, not forgetting to congratulate the officers warmly at the finish.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

He was an officer already distinguished for his prowess in war, and having collected a numerous force of cavalry and infantry, he proceeded to assume the command in full confidence.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

Beware of leaks in the cans, and never forget that you are handling a dangerous material.
— from Firebrands by George Moses Davis

If we consider the effect of all these accumulated circumstances—the travelling on mules, the mode of extorting money, the plunder of the prisoners by the jailer, the rosary with its large beads carried by the Spanish Tartuffe, instead of the “haire and the discipline” mentioned by Molière, the description of the hotels of Madrid, the inferior condition of surgeons, the graceful bearing of the cloak, the notary’s inkstand, the posada in which the actors slept as well as acted, the convent in which Philip’s mistress is placed with such minute propriety, the Gallina Ciega, the lane in Madrid, the dinner hour of the clerks in the minister’s office, the knowledge of the ecclesiastical rights of the crown over Granada, and of the Aragonese resistance to a foreign viceroy, the number of words left in the original Spanish, and of others which betray a Spanish origin, the names of cities, villages, and families, that rise spontaneously to the hand of the writer, and the perpetual mistakes which their enumeration occasions, among which we will only here specify that of C a ntador for C o ntador, and the omission of the words “Duc d’Uzeda,” which can alone set right a flagrant anachronism—if we consider the effect of all these circumstances, we shall look in vain for any reason to doubt the result which such a complication of probabilities conspires to fortify.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

Once there, since a sharp lookout for the reporter was necessary, they slowed down and down until the smooth little car, with all lights out, crawled along no faster than a vigorous man will walk.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

“In the name of my Master, who made thee and yonder sea; and has said to the sea, So far shalt thou come, and no farther, and to thee, Thou shalt do no murder.” “Has not a man a right to do what he pleases with his own?” said I. “He has,” said the old man, “but thy life is not thy own; thou art accountable for it to thy God.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

I have been a bad lot, and I don't deny it, and all I can ask now, from this time forward, is to be kept from doing any more mischief.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

They realized that their [326] contest was waged for a cause and not for office, and from an educational point of view the campaign was eminently successful.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus