The engagement was soon terminated by the total defeat and death of Allectus; a single battle, as it has often happened, decided the fate of this great island; and when Constantius landed on the shores of Kent, he found them covered with obedient subjects.
— 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 HAPPY CHAPTER LXVIII OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE CHAPTER LXIX OF THE STRANGEST
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An entire volume of 784 pages lately published in Boston [236] is composed of stuff like this passage picked out at random: "The flow of the efferent fluids of all these vessels from their outlets at the terminal loop of each culminate link on the surface of the nuclear organism is continuous as their respective atmospheric fruitage up to the altitudinal limit of their expansibility, whence, when atmosphered by like but coalescing essences from higher altitudes,—those sensibly expressed as the essential qualities of external forms,—they descend, and become assimilated by the afferents of the nuclear organism."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This disposition of the soil is called hraun : the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The air refreshed her, and she continued at the casement, looking on the shadowy scene, over which the planets burned with a clear light, amid the deep blue aether, as they silently moved in their destined course.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Frequently there is in the line a cæsural pause, which may occur anywhere; e.g. — "And quite dismembred hath; | the thirsty land Dronke up his life; | his corse left on the strand."
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And are not the Scriptures, in all places where they are Law, made Law by the Authority of the Common-wealth, and consequently, a part of the Civill Law? Of the same kind it is also, when any but the Soveraign restraineth in any man that power which the Common-wealth hath not restrained: as they do, that impropriate the Preaching of the Gospell to one certain Order of men, where the Laws have left it free.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

CHAPTER L. OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS “A good joke, that!”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Aquatic Birds of this country or such as obtain their Subsistence from the water, are the large blue and brown heron, fishing Hawk, blue crested fisher, Gulls of Several Species of the Coast, the large grey Gull of the Columbia, Comorant, loons of two Species, white and the brown brant, Small and large Geese, small and large Swans, the Duckinmallard, canvis back Duck, red headed fishing Duck, black and white duck, little brown Duck, Black Duck, two Species of Divers, blue winged teal, 14 and Some other Species of Ducks, two Species of Plevers.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Animals can live on the slopes of a dormant volcano, fighting and dying in natural competition.
— from Deathworld by Harry Harrison

In a long, low wooden house, which may still be seen with its roof of red shingles, at the head of Woodpecker street, on the south side, in the city of Williamsburg, the residence of Judge Waller, and still owned by his grandson Dr. Robert Page Waller, and in a small room up stairs, at the north-east corner, looking on the street, in which his mother was born before him, on the seventeenth day of December, 1774, Littleton Waller Tazewell first saw the light.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

The result, too, is seen with painful plainness in comparing the sturdy, well-preserved farm-wife of thirty, with the languid, pale, faded city lady of the same age.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

This is then dissolved in distilled water, a slight excess of dilute sulphuric acid added to liberate the fatty acids, and the whole warmed until the fatty acids form a [Pg 123] clear liquid on the surface.
— from The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons

He's chain lightnin' on the shoot.
— from A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine

They are where they can look over the summit."
— from The Boy Scout Camera Club; Or, the Confession of a Photograph by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Crag looked out the side port.
— from First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton

Neither, again, after physical science had attained a certain development, could there be any real doubt where to look for the laws on which the phenomena of life depend, since they must be the mechanical and chemical laws of the solid and fluid substances composing the organized body and the medium in which it subsists, together with the peculiar vital laws of the different tissues constituting the organic structure.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The covering of his head, the material and colour of his belts, the very form of the foot-soldier's overalls, cut large over the shoe, as if on purpose to become dirty and draggled on the march, seem selected with a view to occasion him as much uncomfort and trouble as possible.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Everything, however, in the aspect of town and country, leads one to suppose that the average of crime must be a low one, and that the preventing influences—so much more efficient than remedial measures—have long, been at work.
— from From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe