Nicholas and his wife lived together so happily that even Sónya and the old countess, who felt jealous and would have liked them to disagree, could find nothing to reproach them with; but even they had their moments of antagonism.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part V. Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part VI.
— 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

Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part VIII.
— 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

VOLUME TWO Chapter XVI—Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part I. Part II.
— 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

America consists from north to south about five hundred miles.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The cedar feeleth not the rose's head, Nor he the woman's presence at his feet!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

24 To the information contained in the foregoing passage I would add the following observations:— Charms for neutralising the power of the Spectre Huntsman are by no means uncommon, and though they almost invariably differ in unimportant details, such as the names of his dogs and weapons, they still bear strong and unmistakable family likeness.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He is journeying to-day into the iron country farther north to look about him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

His remains were carried by the magistrates of the municipal 259 towns and colonies, from Nola to Bovillae 260 , and in the nighttime, because of the season of the year.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Corrected and amended by later editors, it continued for nearly two hundred years, to be a text-book of the German schools.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

On clear frosty nights they are most loquacious, and their voices may be heard by the hour, rising and falling, now few, and now many taking part in the endless confabulation—a talkee-talkee and concert in one; a chatter as of many magpies; the solemn deep, honk-honk , the long, grave note changing to a shuddering sound; and, most wonderful, the fine silvery
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

[ 251 ] 1 This article is compiled from notes taken by Mr. Hira Lāl, Assistant Gazetteer Superintendent in Jubbulpore, and from a paper by Rām Lāl Sharma, schoolmaster, Bilāspur.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

We can find no trace of any assistance that he afforded the cause of Columbus.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

The success of the society is greatly, if not chiefly, due to the labors and management of Charles Loring Brace, its secretary, who has been the good genius of the New York street children for nearly twenty years.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

The change from north to south declination takes place every fourteen days, but these changes do not necessarily take place at the change in the phases of the moon.
— from The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry Charles Adams

"Only one more favor," says I. "Would my boy Tom be very much in the way if he came, from now till ten, to help with the boots and shoes, and stood at his work close by this window which looks out on the staircase?"
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

Or, rather, used to cut; for now the new town (which is beastly) has come on the cliff above, and looks for all the world as if it was St. Sennans, and speaks contemptuously of the real town as the Beach Houses.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

In 1670 he went over to Ireland (where some of his relatives appear to have resided), and officiated in a congregation at Coleraine for nearly three years, when he returned to Scotland, and was settled minister of Fenwick, in the Presbytery of Irvine, under the second Indulgence.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford