After the perpetration of all the Cruelties rehearsed in New Spain and other places, there came another Rabid and Cruel Tyrant to Panuco , who acted the part of a bloody Tragedian as well as the rest, and sent away many Ships loaden with these Barbarians to be sold for Slaves, made this Province almost a Wilderness, and which was deplorable, Eight Hundred Indians , that had Rational Souls were given in Exchange for a Burthen-bearing-Beast, a Mule, or Camel.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

“Ah! good morning, dear,” she continued, and rising and crossing the room, she grasped the Duchess’ hands as affectionately as if they had been sisters; the Duchess responded in the prettiest and most gracious way.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Note 60 ( return ) [ I have consulted a rare and curious treatise of M. D'Anville, (sur l'Ancienne Jerusalem, Paris, 1747, p. 75.)
— 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

We cross a room, and change the course of our lives by crossing it, and few people even observe that we have crossed the room.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton

The Book is divided into Twenty-eight short Chapters and an Epilogue, in which the historical, physical, social, and religious features of the Carlyle Country are reviewed, and Carlyle traced from place to place, from incident to incident, in his “old familiar birth-land”; the whole showing, once more, what a Great Story is that of Carlyle’s ascent from the peasant’s cottage to the throne of literature in the Victorian age.
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt

The Queen confined all reply and comment to the words, coldly uttered, that, she hoped it was so.
— from Memoir of Queen Adelaide, Consort of King William IV. by Dr. (John) Doran

One, a fair-haired girl of about the same age as herself, cried persistently and unrestrainedly, burying her face in the window curtain, and refusing all comfort, though her companions pressed chocolates, caramels, mint rock, jujubes, and walnut toffee upon her with well-meant sympathy.
— from The Nicest Girl in the School: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

It should be observed that in this document the slaves of the Church are regarded as consecrated to God; thereon is founded the regulation which prevents their passing into other hands and leaving the Church, except as freemen.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

A cloud was slowly drawing across the moon’s face, and in the deep shadow that swept across castle and road and country, the two fugitives scrambled from the moat, found the road and started towards Paris.
— from The Presentation by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

I've known men to act like angels to set their consciences at rest after conduct that would make the bad place itself turn pink in shame.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

The evening before we sailed, instead of revising our medicine-chest as I had intended, I took the car and ran across country to Lady Grove to tell my aunt of the journey I was making, dress, and astonish Lady Osprey by an after dinner call.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Though the natives manifested no hostility, they immediately became cold and reserved, and ceased to supply the camp with food.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott