But it was impossible that minds like those of Maximian and his son could long possess in harmony an undivided power.
— 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

CHAPTER LX Perspective I proceed to other passages of my narrative.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

With Cowper's charming Letters , published in 1803, we reach the end of his important works, and the student who enjoys reading letters will find that these rank among the best of their kind.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

No diré más, sino que me fué imposible tener la risa y que por breve rato contemplé la profanada imagen, exclamando: "¡Madre y señora mía, cómo te han puesto!"
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Yonaguska had succeeded in authority to Yane′gwa, “Big-bear,” who appears to have been of considerable local prominence in his time, but whose name, even with the oldest of the band, is now but a memory.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I am, in like manner, inclined to believe that a monarch will always be able to convert legal practitioners into the most serviceable instruments of his authority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

(The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude of
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He adds rather savagely, concerning “certain ladylike persons in the United States” who have censured his course in the matter, that he “would be very much interested in seeing the results of a surgical operation performed on the skull of a man who cannot readily see the radical difference between the two propositions,” and that he doubts if a good quality of calf brains would be revealed by the operation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

That morning Doña Victorina was more irritated than usual because the members of the group took very little notice of her, reason for which was not lacking; for just consider—there could be found three friars, convinced that the world would move backwards the very day they should take a single step to the right; an indefatigable Don Custodio who was sleeping peacefully, satisfied with his projects; a prolific writer like Ben-Zayb (anagram of Ibañez), who believed that the people of Manila thought because he, Ben-Zayb, was a thinker; a canon like Padre Irene, who added luster to the clergy with his rubicund face, carefully shaven, from which towered a beautiful Jewish nose, and his silken cassock of neat cut and small buttons; and a wealthy jeweler like Simoun, who was reputed to be the adviser and inspirer of all the acts of his Excellency, the Captain-General— [4] just consider the presence there of these pillars sine quibus non of the country, seated there in agreeable discourse, showing little sympathy for a renegade Filipina who dyed her hair red! Now wasn’t this enough to exhaust the patience of a female Job—a sobriquet Doña Victorina always applied to herself when put out with any one!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

All of the now available traditions of the Navaho and of the Hopi Indians support the conclusions reached from a study of the intrinsic evidence of the ruins, that they represent a comparatively late period in the history of pueblo architecture.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

The church (La Pieve) is of the twelfth century, partly modernised, but contains interesting round arches and carved column capitals.
— from Through the Casentino with Hints for the Traveller by Lina Eckenstein

I do not say that for certain logical purposes it may not be useful to treat propositions as absolute entities, with truth or falsehood inside of them respectively, or to make of a complex like 'that—Caesar—is—dead' a single term and call it a 'truth.'
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

"It is the court-yard of the castle that I see, and a sweet, calm, lovely picture it is.
— from The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas by William Henry Frost

This leaves out a class larger probably in our country than in any other, of children of fortune, who have plunged headlong into ruin, finding an early and dishonored death, who, had they been compelled to work, would at least have acquitted themselves decently in life.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The musician, under the influence of an inward stimulus of some very obscure kind, may take three or four tones—say those of the opening subject of a sonata or a fugue—and build with them a structure ordered and controlled by certain laws purely its own, having for its object the susciting in our minds of a series of feelings from which all thought of speech is absent.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

STUDY OF CHILD LIFE PART II.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne

I commenced law practice in 1857.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

His longest step forward was made in 1887, when he joined the stock company maintained by the late A.M. Palmer, at the Madison Square Theater, starting with Jack Ralston in "Jim the Penman," and creating Lathrop Page in Augustus Thomas's first great success, "Alabama."
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various