Dr. Peyton, a principal physician, and rich in all the attributes that go to constitute high and flawless character, did all that educated judgment and trained skill could do for Henry; but, as the newspapers had said in the beginning, his hurts were past help.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

As is usually the case with a large tribe occupying an extensive territory, the language is spoken in several dialects, the principal of which may, for want of other names, be conveniently designated as the Eastern, Middle, and Western.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Proclaim through the ranks that the head of Gregory shall be repaid with his captive daughter, and the equal sum of one hundred thousand pieces of gold."
— 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 had fought for a good hour, and our firearms must have done considerable destruction among the enemy who stood so crowded together.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

But they came to the Council Rock, all that were left of them, and saw Shere Khan’s striped hide on the rock, and the huge claws dangling at the end of the empty dangling feet.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Madame Chicot, distressed at the expense, kept running down to the cellar continually for cider.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Other works by him are: Anglo-Saxon Britain ; Charles Darwin ; and The Evolution of the Idea of God .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

[N] As Cicero did at the expiration of his consulship.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sribatsa said to his wife, whose name was Chintamani, “Dearest, as the evil eye of Sani will be upon me at once, I had better go away from the house; for if I remain in the house with you, evil will befall you and me; but if I go away, it will overtake me only.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The Aeneid brings home to us, in a way in which no other work of Latin literature can do, all those elements in the idea of the destiny, the genius, and character of Rome which most powerfully move the imagination, while it enables us for a time to forget those elements of hardness, unscrupulous injustice, and oppressive domination on which the historian is forced to dwell, and which alienate the sympathies as much as her nobler aspect compels the admiration of mankind.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

With considerable difficulty, and the expenditure of my last bottle of whisky, I saved his life.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

The necessity for an improved mode of [352] communication between London and Birmingham was clearly demonstrated, and the engineering evidence was regarded as quite satisfactory.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

He envies, so he says, those who were surrounded by studious pupils and could devote all their energies to study, far from the turmoil of religious controversy.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Our officer-prisoners, as a whole, by continuing their numerous and in many cases desperate attempts to escape, are doing a service to the country, and although nominally counted out of all useful work are doing valuable work, by causing the Germans to employ more guards to watch them than might otherwise be the case.
— from 13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by John Alan Lyde Caunter

Almost a replica of the great picture in Santa Maria Novella at Florence; gold ground; the Madonna’s face still strongly Byzantine in type, with almond-shaped eyes; the Child, draped, after the earlier fashion.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen

From this primary model of construction we can cenogenetically deduce all the embryonic forms of the other vertebrates, the craniota, by secondary modifications.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

In Mexican myth the earth is represented as a monster, Cipactli, the pictures of which suggest a crocodile, a swordfish, or a dragon, probably a dragon, that great earth-monster common to the mythologies of many races and most conveniently called the 'earth-dragon,' The sign 'Cipactli' became the first in the calendar, and with it are connected the creative deities and the Earth-Mother or Great Mother.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence