In a very early period, the islands of Cyprus and Crete, the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia, gave a favorable reception to the new religion; and Christian republics were soon founded in the cities of Corinth, of Sparta, and of Athens.
— 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

It was a high pyramidal cap of cloth or silk, almost concealed by a profusion of pearls and jewels: the crown was formed by a horizontal circle and two arches of gold: at the summit, the point of their intersection, was placed a globe or cross, and two strings or lappets of pearl depended on either cheek.
— 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

7 On the other hand, the minutes of this same meeting as we saw recognized that America might be tempted into entering upon a career of colonization, once she should get a foothold in the islands.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Contempt of court, or something British?
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

[148] He distinguished: (1) General probability, which depends upon the causes or consequences of some single uncertain result, and derives its character from them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Crassitius only counts on Smyrna’s love, Fruitless the wooings of the unlettered prove; Crassitius she receives with loving arms, For he alone unveiled her hidden charms.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Now let us suppose this sense of the Almighty design to be one step depressed—to be brought into something like harmony or consistency with the sense of human art—to form an intermedium between the two:—let us imagine, for example, a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness—whose united beauty, magnificence, and strangeness, shall convey the idea of care, or culture, or superintendence, on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity—then the sentiment of interest is preserved, while the art intervolved is made to assume the air of an intermediate or secondary nature—a nature which is not God, nor an emanation from God, but which still is nature in the sense of the handiwork of the angels that hover between man and God.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

During a severe winter, the armies slept; but in the spring, the Franks advanced within a day's march of Jerusalem, under the leading standard of the English king; and his active spirit intercepted a convoy, or caravan, of seven thousand camels.
— 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

The red cross of cloth or silk, fastened to the right shoulder, was the badge of all who took up arms.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

There remained, however, the further question concerning a cabinet, or council of state; an advisory body, with which some of the most important persons in the Convention desired to surround [408] the President, to assist him in the discharge of his duties, without the power of controlling his actions, and without diminishing his legal responsibility.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

There was no longer the glance of proud defiance in the eye—the flash of wounded pride upon the cheek, or curl of scorn upon the lip.
— from The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans by Mary Ashley Townsend

Smithies 440 (1912) reports two cures of cases of severe dyspepsia, in which Trichomonads were found in the stomach contents, after administration of a single dose of 50 to 60 gr.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

The Governor may from time to time direct a commission or commissions to be issued for the appointment of a Court or Courts of Special Commissioners for the trial in manner provided by this Ordinance of persons, committed for trial before the Supreme Court of the Colony or the Circuit Court of the Protectorate, for any of the following offences committed in the Colony or Protectorate, whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance; that is to say, ( a ) murder, committed in connection with an unlawful society; ( b ) attempting or conspiring to commit murder in connection with an unlawful society; No. 28 of 1909.
— from Human Leopards An Account of the Trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; With a Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present by Beatty, Kenneth James, Sir

ON TRAVEL BY TRAIN R EMOVE an Englishman from his hearth and home, his centre of corporal life, and he becomes a very different creature, one capable of sudden furies and roaring passions, a deep sea of strong emotions churning beneath his frozen exterior.
— from Papers from Lilliput by J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

“Won’t you have a cup of coffee, or something to eat?”
— from The Mystery of Seal Islands by Harrison Bardwell

And still we continue our coinage of silver at a ratio different from that of any other nation.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

The commercial bicarbonate above mentioned, contains, of course, all the impurities of the carbonate from which it is made, this being an inevitable consequence of the method by which it is manufactured, which, as described in Knapp’s Chemical Technology, is simply to expose commercial crystals of carbonate of soda to the action of carbonic acid gas, which it takes up to the extent of one equivalent, falling into a fine powder, with evolution of heat and loss of water of cry­stal­li­za­tion.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York