[ The character of Dalmatius is advantageously, though concisely drawn by Eutropius.
— 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 sound of musical instruments, chiefly of drums, is a phenomenon of another class, and is really produced in certain situations among sandhills when the sand is disturbed.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Ward, A. W., criticism of Devil is an Ass , lxxviii .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

I Saw Some of the Chien or Dog Indians, also a man of a nation under the Court new-This nation is at war with the Crow Indians & have 3 Children prisoners.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American history, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea, no distinct realization, of the stretch of time which they represent.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

'Nay' said the churl, 'our devil is a truth, I saw the flash of him but yestereven.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Before constructing any objective judgement, we compare the conceptions that are to be placed in the judgement, and observe whether there exists identity (of many representations in one conception), if a general judgement is to be constructed, or difference, if a particular; whether there is agreement when affirmative; and opposition when negative judgements are to be constructed, and so on.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in their pipes.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

But to render the contrast in this respect still more striking, it may be of use to throw the principal circumstances of dissimilitude into a closer group.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Let us take but a hasty view of the consequences of divorce in ancient times.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

But it seems now to me that so long as the doctors are satisfied as to the cause of death——" "I am not at all sure the doctor is satisfied," Mark said significantly.
— from The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

The person from whom it comes out driest is adjudged the thief.]
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

This is an appearance that, as it belongs to this complaint, might be useful in a case otherwise dubious, if any such should occur, to aid in deciding whether the action of the heart had been inordinate.
— from Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren

11—Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, process or composition of matter, or any new or useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country, or described in any printed publication before his invention or discovery thereof, may upon payment of the fees required by law and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
— from Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office by Hawaii

I never see a beast or a bird caught or dead in a keeper's trap but that I think to myself that after all, if we ourselves are caught in the end between the grinning jaws of anarchy, it will really be only partial justice on our injustice.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

Gertrude found, on inquiry, that the Casterbridge official dwelt in a lonely cottage by a deep slow river flowing under the cliff on which the prison buildings were situate—the stream being the self-same one, though she did not know it, which watered the Stickleford and Holmstoke meads lower down in its course.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

A parchment document, which extended to [284] twice the length of a man, was now unrolled, and proved to be a patent of Stephan Urosh, the father of Stephan Dushan, endowing the great convent of Dechani, in Albania.
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton

At Innsbruck, he had thought more than once to himself, “How could one dream in a world where there are women like Rue, of tying oneself for life to this sweet-voiced alp-girl?”
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

" Now, sitting on the uneasy bench upon the confines of Barnes Common—while the little many-millioned world, which works, in gangs, and groups, and amatory couples, and somewhat foot-weary family parties, sauntered by—that same oppression of faintness came over Dominic Iglesias, along with a great nostalgia for the cool, dusky, low-ceilinged rooms, and the neglected yet still bravely blossoming garden of the little house in Holland Street.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet