Ninachetuen, an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dispossess him, without any apparent cause, of his command in Malacca, to transfer it to the King of Campar, he took this resolution with himself: he caused a scaffold, more long than broad, to be erected, supported by columns royally adorned with tapestry and strewed with flowers and abundance of perfumes; all which being prepared, in a robe of cloth of gold, set full of jewels of great value, he came out into the street, and mounted the steps to the scaffold, at one corner of which he had a pile lighted of aromatic wood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"Good-bye; come and see me some day," she said, still looking at Archer.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Period I.—The Growth of Latin Literature , 250-80 B.C. 250 Roman victory at Panormus (Metellus) 249 Carthaginian victory at Drepana (Claudius) 248-241 Hamilcar Barca in Sicily Ptolemy III (Euergetes) 247-222 241 Victory of Lutatius off the Aegates Insulae Peace with Carthage Sicily made a Roman Province (1) 241-238 War of Carthage with her Mercenaries Corsica and Sardinia made a Roman Province (2)
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

What, however, cheers and strengthens me most is the thought that you, dearest papa, and my dear sister, are well; that I am an honest German, and though I cannot SAY, I may at all events THINK what I please, and, after all, that is the chief thing.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I also observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which she wears, so I conclude that she has learned to think of other people more and of herself less, and has decided to try and mold her character as carefully as she molds her little clay figures.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

If he made it new, or to have an end, how is he unchangeable, infinite, &c. Some will dispute, cavil, and object, as Julian did of old, whom Cyril confutes, as Simon Magus is feigned to do, in that [3138] dialogue betwixt him and Peter: and Ammonius the philosopher, in that dialogical disputation with Zacharias the Christian.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But those that knew Caius was dead, because they were partners with the conspirators, they concealed all still more cautiously, as not knowing one another's minds; and fearing lest they should speak of it to some of those to whom the continuance of tyranny was advantageous; and if Caius should prove to be alive, they might be informed against, and punished.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I had scarce time to measure the distance or to understand the peril before I had followed him, and he had caught and stopped me.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

It does not seem at all questionable to me that the practice of circumcision common among so many peoples is an equivalent and a substitute for castration.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“You have told me many things, of sun and moon and stars, which are mocked at as idle tales by my unbelieving people; of continents and seas, mountains, vast cities, great ships, strange engines moved by vapor and by lightning, tall houses; of words thrown along metal threads or even through the air itself; of great nations and wars, of a hundred wondrous matters that verily have passed away even from the remotest memories of us in the Abyss!
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Gerald had followed his cousin home, very anxious to be congratulated, and still more anxious not to appear anxious.
— from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale by Anthony Hope

Hereunto have I added a certain gloss, or scholion, for the exposition of old words and harder phrases; which manner of glossing and commenting, well I wot, will seem strange and rare in our tongue: yet, for so much as I knew many excellent and proper devices, both in words and matter, would pass in the speedy course of reading either as unknown, or as not marked; and that in this kind, as in other, we might be equal to the learned of other nations; I thought good to take the pains upon me, the rather for that by means of some familiar acquaintance I was made privy to his counsel and secret meaning in them, as also in sundry other works of his.
— from The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser

He tried frantically to be friendly; but he failed, because he was too wormlike, being a crushed and shabby man with a thin, grey beard.
— from The Human Boy and the War by Eden Phillpotts

[1] In Scotland, villeinage lasted much longer, and as late as 1774, in the reign of George III, men working in coal and salt mines were held in a species of slavery, which was finally abolished the following year.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Westward the eye follows the silvery course of the Rimac, its left bank lined with convents, and splendid mansions of the more wealthy Limanians.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

The faint tinge of scarlet leaped into Madame St. Leger's cheeks, and an engaging dimple indicated itself at the left corner of her closed and smiling mouth.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 125,000 kW production: 365 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,980 kWh (1992) Industries: tourism (Curacao and Sint Maarten), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The clothes were spread on the green when her piercing gaze caught a strange movement of the water.
— from Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster