He said that if you continued to be so good he would come back to stay with us.” An exclamation of disgust from Basilio’s contracted lips interrupted her.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Hierosolem l i., and Sanutus Secreta Fidelium Crucis, l. iii.
— 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

And to please myself, as well as by a sort of chivalrous loyalty, in any connection or with no relevance at all, I would repeat the name of that street until my father, not being, like my mother and grandmother, in the secret of my love, would ask: "But why are you always talking about that street?
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

H2 anchor Me Imperturbe Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The land of Cyclops lay in prospect near: The voice of goats
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem—" Tess's sense of a certain ludicrousness in her errand was now so strong that, notwithstanding her awe of him, and her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved towards a smile, much to the attraction of the swarthy Alexander.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Epictetus was a slave: his ideal man is without any particular rank, and may exist in any grade of society, but above all he is to be sought in the deepest and lowest social classes, as the silent and self-sufficient man in the midst of a general state of servitude, a man who defends himself alone against the outer world, and is constantly living in a state of the highest fortitude.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And I here, to shew my thankfulness to God, in communicating it to his creatures, leave it to posterity.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The communicative lady I learnt, on inquiry, for I stayed in the shop till they were gone, was a Mrs. Ellison, and that, as I have been since informed, is the name of Miss Grey's guardian.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Of course Lothian is well off in other ways.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

The clammy locust is a pink-flowered species with a sticky substance exuding from the hairy surface of new shoots.
— from Trees Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year by Julia Ellen Rogers

The seventh division, from Cape Cincapura to Cape Liampo in China, contains the kingdoms of Pam, Lugor, Siam, Cambodia, Tsiompa, Cochin China, and the vast empire of China.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

The rifle fire was persistent all day, but, saving in certain localities, it was not heavy.
— from The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens

In the saloon there was strong language, and Jack Quinn, expert skinner of other men's cows, looked inquiringly at the proprietor.
— from Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford

The cottage had originally been the homestead of a small grass-farm, which had been bequeathed to Betsy Wendover by her father, familiarly known as the Old Squire, the chief landowner in that part of the country.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Then, too, besides occupying the space least valuable for other purposes, it being centrally located, is in the most convenient place for feeding.
— from Economy of the Round Dairy Barn by Wilber J. (Wilber John) Fraser

Or, if you find it easier, cut the potatoes into equal cubes; lay in cold water half an hour, then cook fifteen minutes in boiling water.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

( See also Culture) Clans, i, 171 Class consciousness, ii, 399 , 407-08 ; distinction, i, 188 , 267-68 ; war, i, 168 Classes, social, i, 263-72 Classics, study of the, ii, 390 , 428 Classification, ii, 169 Claudian, the historian, i, 607 Claudius, emperor (A.D. 41-54), i, 525 , 528 , ii, 609 Claudius, emperor (A.D. 268-270), i, 553 , ii, 610 Claudius, Appius, decemvir, i, 458 Claudius, Appius, the Censor, i, 461-466 Claudius, Consul, i, 468 Clay documents, i, 190 , 197-98 , 246 ; modelling, Palæolithic, i, 095 , 99 {index} Clemenceau, G. B., ii, 552-56 , 566 , 624 Clement V (pope), ii, 99 , 616 Clement VII (anti-pope), ii, 100 , 617 Cleon, i, 350 Cleopatra, i, 510-15 Cleopatra (wife of Philip II), i, 374 , 376 Clergy, taxation of, ii, 86 Clermont, ii, 74 , 615 Clermont , steamer, ii, 387 Cleveland, President, ii, 505 Climate, change of, i, 18 , 20 , 30-37 , 046 , 051 , 052 , 057 , 100 , 108 , 170 , 177 , 317 , 545 , 550 ; effect of, i, 35-36 , 232 , 317 Clitus (klī’ tŭs), i, 392 , ii, 145 Clive, Robert, Lord, ii, 258 , 453 , 487 , 621 Clodius, i, 511 Clothing, i, 99 , 109 , 114 Clovis, ii, 46 , 47 , 611 Cluniac order, ii, 150 Clyde, Firth of, ii, 387 Cnossos (nos’ os), i, 196 , 213-16 , 223 , 234 , 257 , 264 , 281 , 300 , 303 , 315 , 318 , 354 , 446 , 447 , ii, 605 Coal, i, 28 , 29 , 34 , 38 , 635 , ii, 275 , 386 , 392 Cockroaches, i, 28 Code Napoléon, ii, 358 Cogul, i, 354 Coinage, earliest, i, 220 ; Athenian, i, 220 ; Bactrian, i, 396 ; Carthaginian, i, 468 ; Ephthalite, i, 629 ; Lydian, i, 316 ; pre-Roman British, i, 396 ; Roman, i, 455 , 471 Coinage of stamped leather, ii, 89 Coke, ii, 275 Cole, Langton, i, 212 Collectivism, ii, 412 Cologne, ii, 60 , 180 , 182 Colonies, British, ii, 279-83 , 471 ; scramble for, ii, 449-61 Colorado, i, 39 Colosseum, i, 609 , ii, 41 Columba, St., ii, 50 Columbus, Bartholomew, ii, 186 Columbus, Christopher, ii, 185 sqq.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells