The Roman villa at Brading is an excellent type of such a dwelling, with its magnificent suites of rooms, colonnades, halls, and splendid mosaic pavements.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Remaining there a couple of days, I returned to Louisville; on the 22d of October, General Negley's brigade arrived in boats from Pittsburg, was sent out to Camp Nolin; and the Thirty-seventh Indiana., Colonel Hazzard, and Second Minnesota, Colonel Van Cleve, also reached Louisville by rail, and were posted at Elizabethtown and Lebanon Junction.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals, In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

All this takes for granted, of course, that there exist ears that can hear, and such men as are capable and worthy of a like pathos, that those are not wanting unto whom one may communicate one's self.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She had probably met with so little sympathy in her early love, that she had shut it up close in her heart; and it was only by a sort of watching, which I could hardly avoid since Miss Pole’s confidence, that I saw how faithful her poor heart had been in its sorrow and its silence.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Jupiter comforts her, and sends Mercury to procure him a kind reception among the Carthaginians.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

‘You must come home and see mama, who only came to Portsmouth today, and is dying to behold you.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And I'll kiss thee yet, yet, &c. H2 anchor Song—Mary Morison Tune—“Bide ye yet.”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He married Agrippina, the daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and grand-daughter of Caecilius Atticus, a Roman knight, the same person to whom Cicero has addressed so many epistles.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He also opened a register of returning citizens, "where any gentleman now resident in the city," his advertisement stated, "may insert their names and place of residence."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In that case," he added, speaking more to himself than to Don Estevan, "its pains are cruel."
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard

From the Sanskrit of Calidasa H2 anchor SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS From "Epicoene" Still to be neat, still to be dressed As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The best thing she could do, therefore, was to give the place up to them at once, for she had not been able to conquer herself, and she more than ever lacked the courage to live beside them and witness all the intimacy of man and wife.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

The lion council held, and said, “My friends, I do believe This awful scourge, for which we grieve, Is for our sins a punishment Most righteously by Heaven sent.
— from French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Christopher had adroitly seated me with my back to the curtain.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

He was possessed of a clear head, a strong mind, a good heart, a vigorous and sound judgment, matured by long experience and a close observation of men and things.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

Each Negro must consider himself a spiritual missionary whose appearance, speech, actions and surroundings will reflect the storehouse of the great Light within.
— from The Colored Girl Beautiful by E. Azalia (Emma Azalia) Hackley

At one time this company had a salt monopoly and a wax monopoly.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

GROVER CLEVELAND. H2 anchor SPECIAL MESSAGES.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland