The Western world was open to their valor; and they resolved, under the conduct of their hereditary chieftains, to conquer and subdue some remote country, which was still inaccessible to the arms of the Sienpi, and to the laws of China.
— 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

If there are any signs of change, besides those of mere growth, in this work, they certainly succeed in eluding the most careful search, undertaken with a full knowledge of Nietzsche's former opinions, and it would be interesting to know precisely where they are found by those writers whom the titles of the chapters, alone, seem so radically to have perturbed.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But unquestionably the woman was put there for honour and not disgrace; with her child and sheaf she represented the fruitage of the year.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But this exemplification from history is subject to certain conditions, of which we shall treat in a special chapter and unfortunately these conditions are so seldom regarded that reference to history generally only serves to increase the confusion of ideas.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

It was sometimes artificially curved, and sometimes straight, retaining the original form of the shell.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Also, if thou be right, and if She doth but hide herself, surely when she comes again she shall reward thee.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The search over, and no Diamond or sign of a Diamond being found, of course, anywhere, Superintendent Seegrave retired to my little room to consider with himself what he was to do next.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

8 No doubt also many of the Quatrains in the Teheran, as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; such Rubaiyat being the common form of Epigram in Persia.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

He thought she looked a little pale when she came out of the coeds’ dressing room; but as they entered the reception room her color and sparkle suddenly returned to her.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As a good citizen he was an admirable paterfamilias, for what greater proof could he give of his love of country than by presenting it with worthy subjects in his children, and such subjects result from a good education.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

O wind, you go shrilling, shrilling, Over the chimneys high, While the clouds are softly spilling Rain on the gardens dry: ’Tis autumn, the wild new-comer Has taught you how to sing, But the voice of the sweet dead summer Through it all seems to ring.
— from Heart Songs by Jean Blewett

Then there was a sound of quick steps about the kitchen, a rattling of the stove, and a clatter of tins which must have pleased the cuckoo, and soon she reappeared in the door with a bowl and spoon in her hands.
— from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Tory government saw in these disturbances a renewal of the old Jacobin spirit, and had visions—apparently quite groundless—of widespread conspiracies and secret societies ready to produce a ruin of all social order.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

Everybody had something to say or sing, senseless chatter and sentimental songs ran riot; all uttered something for the mere pleasure of utterance; we were out of the trenches and free for the time being from danger.
— from The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill

The bed creaked beneath his weight, and with the exception of a few broken sounds, which escaped from his overburdened chest, absolute silence soon reigned in the chamber of Morpheus.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

It was a name which seemed to harmonize well with her rich, pickled-olive complexion and so she retained it all her life.
— from Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye

He had certainly assumed some such right, and, anyhow, the time had come when something had to be done.
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan