45 They carried him to the camp, and unanimously saluted him Augustus and Emperor.
— 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

[ Pages exeunt R. and L. ] If Hamlet give the first or second hit, Or quit 71 in answer to the third exchange, Let all the battlements their ordnance fire; The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw, 72 Richer than that which four successive kings
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

," said I, in the kindest tone I could assume under such exciting circumstances, "will you go home with me now—not to my office, but my dwelling—and remain there till we can conclude upon some convenient arrangement for you at our leisure?
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Bro: Why prethee Shepherd How durst thou then thy self approach so neer As to make this relation? Spir: Care and utmost shifts How to secure the lady from surprisal, Brought to my mind a certain Shepherd Lad Of small regard to see to, yet well
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

I had learned a new lesson—that nature "wages open war against her children, and under softest touch hides treacherous claws.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

While the work of destruction was going fiercely and irrepressibly on, the Public Clock in the belfry, Mr. Draper's gift to the town, was heard to strike the hour as usual, and the quarters thrice—exercising its functions and having its appointed say, amidst the sympathies, not loud but deep, of those who watched its doom; bearing its testimony, like a martyr at the stake, in calm and unimpassioned strain, up to the very moment of time when the deadly element touched its vitals.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

financiera y contribuyendo así al desarrollo de la economía mundial; contribuir a una sana expansión económica tanto en los países miembros como en los no miembros, con miras al desarrollo económico; contribuir a la expansión del comercio mundial sobre una base multilateral y no discriminatoria conforme a las obligaciones internacionales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But those men who have been embraced by God's grace, and are become the fellow-citizens of the holy angels who have continued in bliss, shall never more either sin or die, being endued with spiritual bodies; yet, being clothed with immortality, such as the angels enjoy, of which they cannot be divested even by sinning, the nature of their flesh shall continue the same, but all carnal corruption and unwieldiness shall be removed.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Its immense weight caused an unusually sharp grating sound, as it moved upon its hinges.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Dropping this hen at Reddy's feet, Granny crowded another until she did the same thing, and just the same thing happened once more.
— from Old Granny Fox by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

They crowded around us so as to be much in our way.
— from Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake

Eleseus had some notions of accounts, of course, and Uncle Sivert's money-chest, the famous bottle-case, had been opened and examined while he was there; he had had to go through all the accounts and make up a balance sheet.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

My informant knew not; Mr. Mountain had come ashore upon some needful purchases; had gone round the town buying, drinking, and prating; and it seemed the party went upon some likely venture, for he had spoken much of great things he would do when he returned.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

But when the magistrate looked at our diminutive friend, and compared his powers of threshing and kicking with the tall majestic figure and full chest of the complainant, he dismissed the charge "avec une sorte d'indignation," as the Sieur Lebrun triumphantly declares; and we think the magistrate was quite justified in so doing.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various

In the greater part of Prussia the marks of serfage, as distinct from payments and services amounting to a kind of rent, were the obligation of the peasant to remain on his holding, and the right of the lord to take the peasant's children as unpaid servants into his house.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

As Lucien was drawn, handsome, clever, and unscrupulous, so was Maunders in actual life, and an insatiable love of pleasure was common to both.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

But her first interest was directed towards the [Pg 371] packet of letters which the box contained; and, until she had devoured the contents of them , all else was a matter of comparative indifference to her.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

H2 anchor Aaron Stark Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, — Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
— from Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson

The cowboy meal, which I believe was not elaborated for us, was a healthy solid affair of meat, vegetables, hot biscuit, coffee, and prunes, appetisingly cooked and unstintingly served, for the Bad Land appetite is like unto that of the Rocky Mountains, lusty and big.
— from A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson