The consul Aurelian pronounced the sentence; and the motives of that sentence expose the jurisprudence of a despotic government.
— 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

19 By these severities, which obtained the warmest approbation of St. Augustin, 20 great numbers of Donatists were reconciled to the Catholic Church; but the fanatics, who still persevered in their opposition, were provoked to madness and despair; the distracted country was filled with tumult and bloodshed; the armed troops of Circumcellions alternately pointed their rage against themselves, or against their adversaries; and the calendar of martyrs received on both sides a considerable augmentation.
— 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

Ambition on one side, and distress on the other, dictated the same decent language of charity and peace: the artful Greek expressed a desire of marrying his six sons to Italian princesses; and the Roman, not less artful, despatched the daughter of the marquis of Montferrat, with a company of noble virgins, to soften, by their charms, the obstinacy of the schismatics.
— 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

Place the modem by the computer, and plug the power supply cord (or the power adapter cord) into the AC wall socket.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The world has bitterness, and it has charms, War has its sweets, and marriage its alarms: Easy to follow one's own natural bent, But I've both court and people to content."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

—Such, then, are the elements which form the population of these islands,—a few thousands of the little Negritos; many wild mountain tribes of the primitive Malayans; a later immigration of Malayans of higher cultivation and possibilities than any that preceded them, who had been influenced by the Hinduism of Java and who have had in recent centuries an astonishing growth both in numbers and in culture; and last, the fierce Mohammedan sea-rovers, the true Malays.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

"One lifts up the curtain, and passes to the other side,—that is all!
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In order that as a science metaphysics may be entitled to claim not mere fallacious plausibility, but in sight and conviction, a Critique of Reason must itself exhibit the whole stock of a priori concepts, their division according to their various sources (Sensibility, Understanding, and Reason), together with a complete table of them, the analysis of all these concepts, with all their consequences, especially by means of the deduction of these concepts, the possibility of synthetical cognition a priori , the principles of its application and finally its bounds, all in a complete system.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

2. Make a common flat cake of flour, water, currants, &c., and put therein a wedding-ring and a sixpence.
— from Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine by John Harland

Chapter XXII Ready arrived at the cove, and proceeded to the tents, where he found the whole party listening to William, who was detailing what had been done.
— from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat

"I'll be real conservative, and put the bottom notch at a million.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

But at last they assembled in a great council and petitioned the gods to give them some kind of covering.
— from Myths of the Iroquois. (1883 N 02 / 1880-1881 (pages 47-116)) by Erminnie A. (Erminnie Adele) Smith

Prudently, he set the temperature for a hot shower on the dial outside the shower compartment, and punched the button that turned on the water.
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

To be sure she had to do many things which wanted thought and sense; but she was too unthoughtful of herself to have decided this as yet, or to have created any private tribunal at which to judge a new-comer of Clarence Copperhead's dimensions.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Bruce, having given a casual glance around, entered the sitting-room, selected the most comfortable chair, and proceeded to envelope himself in smoke.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy

Kneeling on the counter and peeping through a hole in the bottom of the wooden window-shutter, one of Harvey's men kept guard, the other faced the door-way into Moreno's domestic apartments, every now and then letting drive a shot through the wood-work to keep them, as he said, "from monkeying with the bolt on the other side."
— from Foes in Ambush by Charles King

Thus adjured, Golden turned her eyes with an effort away from the portrait of Bertram Chesleigh, and proceeded to obey the instructions of her little mistress with what cheerfulness she could, although her heart was beating wildly with the shock she had received on coming suddenly face to face with her lover's portrait in this strange place.
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.