“Come, be candid,” said the coadjutor, “you have not all your life followed the trade which you do now?” “No, my lord.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

By the late Capt. W. Gill, R.E. Condensed by Edward Colborne Baber, Chinese Secretary to H.M.'s Legation at Peking.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In 1810, a schooner called the Lady Gore or the Bella Gore , commanded by Captain Sa
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Index 657 [ xxi ] [ Contents ] Illustrations Page The Capture of Aguinaldo, March 23, 1901—The Central Fact of the American Military Occupation Frontispiece From the Drawing by F. C. Yohn Copyright by Charles Scribner’s Sons Bird’s-eye View of the Philippine Archipelago, Showing Preponderating Importance of Luzon 228 Outline Sketch of the Theatre of Operations in Luzon, 1899 232 Sketch Map of the Philippines At End
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Simple as the sources of this law are, merely resting upon the relation of spherical surfaces of different radii, its consequences are so valuable with regard to the variety of their agreement and its regularity, that not only are all possible orbits of the celestial bodies conic sections, but such a relation of these orbits to each other results, that no other law of attraction, than that of the inverse square of the distance, can be imagined as fit for a cosmical system.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

With Matvei's suavity of demeanour nothing could be compared save his pomposity.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[6656] Men were diversely affected: some said they were God's just judgments for the execution of that good man, some referred all to natural causes, some to stars, some thought they came by chance, some by necessity decreed ab initio , and could not be altered.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

McPherson's trains were in Decatur, guarded by a brigade commanded by Colonel Sprague of the Sixty-third Ohio.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

My dear little friend, the kitten, would certainly be changed: she was already growing a fine cat; and when I returned, even for a hasty visit at Christmas, would, most likely, have forgotten both her playmate and her merry pranks.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Anthracite, hard coal, blind coal, stone-coal, CULM .
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

"I cannot but choose say to Poverty," said Richter, "Be welcome!
— from Character by Samuel Smiles

The particular “street” on which Streatham stood seems to have been a Roman road which came up from the coast by Clayton, St. John’s Common, Godstone, and Caterham, a branch of the road to Portus Adurni , the Old Shoreham of to-day.
— from The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It is conjectured that the disease was in some way caused by certain strange disturbances of the earth in China, where there were droughts, famines, thunderstorms, torrents of rain, earthquakes, and inundations.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

Well, then, think what it would mean for England, for the king, for America, if the war could be cut short by a single blow, with no cost; cut short by one night's courage, daring, and skill, on the part of a handful of men!"
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

On the morning of the — the ice on the branch of the Ottawa river, which we had to cross, being considered sufficiently strong to bear the weight of the artillery, the whole force marched out, under the command of Sir John Colborne in person, to reduce the insurgents, who had fortified themselves at St. Eustache and St. Benoit, two towns of some magnitude in the district of Bois Brulé.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat