The writings of the jurists, according to the regulations of the Constitution of Valentinian III., first promulgated in the West, but by its admission into the Theodosian Code established likewise in the East.
— 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

Our captain (Ensminger) looked in the evening as if he had been struggling all day in a battle, and his men took to their pallets as if exhausted to the last degree.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Helen's calm eyes looked into the excited shining of his.
— from The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

The Chitralis were free from any gross oppression or misgovernment, they could enjoy life in their easy-going way as they would wish, and they could be ruled by their own ruler.
— from The Relief of Chitral by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

As for ourselves we make our meaning plain when we object the scandal of conformity; for many ignorant and superstitious persons are, by the ceremonies, confirmed ( expertus loquor ) in their error and superstition; so that now they even settle themselves upon the old dregs of popish superstition and formality, from which they were not well purged.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

During such confinements extensive lesions in the erectile tissues of the bulbs and in the sphincter cunni 185 muscles are apt to occur.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

The thoughts and habits of men change even less in the East than the features of Nature, and we are confronted with just the same easy elasticity as regards anything to do with definite hours when we restore for ourselves the sacred scenes of the earlier Bible history, and put back the timepiece of our own contemplation for two or three thousand years.
— from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous