The despair of the flying Goths found some consolation in sanguinary revenge; and three hundred youths of the noblest families, who had been sent as hostages beyond the Po, were inhumanly slain by the successor of Totila.
— 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

On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I picture your world as an ironclad society crystallized by age and custom into something rigid and in flexible.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

She clothed her children in strange raiment and gave them masks, and at her bidding the antique world rose from its marble tomb.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

If, however, she does not suffer from undue excitement, the cock is simply removed alive.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And when two constabulary men had come into sight round a bend in the gloomy road he had broken off his prayer to whistle loudly an air from the last pantomime.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Thus, with so much to divert my mind, during the day going to see the public monuments and the churches in which this immense city is so rich, and at evening to the theatre, my recovery was completed.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

On the other hand, cafard is so recognised an institution that punishments for offences committed under its influence are comparatively light.
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

No creature is so revengeful as a proud man who has humbled himself in vain.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The beautiful Giraffe, found only in South Africa, is like the camel in some respects, and the deer in others.
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

The sun has disappeared, and a small canoe is seen rapidly approaching, as if from the very spot where the orb touched the waters.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

If I could manage it by myself I would do so, but certainly I shall require assistance.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Nitrate of sodium is frequently used instead of nitrate of potassium, and is more convenient in some respects, as the residuum is more easily dissolved out of the retort or cylinder.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

The Lincoln of 1864 was so far removed from the Lincoln of Pigeon Creek-but logically, naturally removed, through the absorption of the outer man by the inner—that inevitably one thinks of Shakespeare's change "into something rich and strange.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson