In the court of Nero, a person of learning, of unquestioned merit, and of unsuspected loyalty, was put to death for no other reason, than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the emperor.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is said that the city once numbered a population of four hundred thousand; but her sceptre has passed from her grasp, now, her ships and her armies are gone, her commerce is dead.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

To the north, to the east, to the west, stretches nothing but eternal ocean; so that the man-of-war hawk coming from the coasts of North America, Polynesia, or Peru, makes his first [pg 308] land at Rodondo.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

At each place where he made this arrangement he detached one of his assistants and sent him back with the first load of provisions, so that the regular line of carriage might be the more quickly established; and when they had all gone he borrowed a couple of natives and pushed on by himself until he reached the eastern end of the island.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

Evelyn, who attended the funeral, says that Cowley's body was "conveyed to Westminster Abbey in a hearse with six horses, near a hundred coaches of noblemen, and persons of quality following."
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

Men's notions are very strange!—Brother, I say there is not, was not, nor will ever be, in the wide circle of Nature, any Pill or Religion of that character.
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

"Call Central Control on Neptune," a police officer said.
— from World Beyond Pluto by Stephen Marlowe

The son succeeds the father as the foal succeeds the horse, but when, out of the course of nature, a prodigy occurs, and the offspring no longer resembles the parent, then the names no longer agree.
— from Cratylus by Plato

"My Ladies, Lords and gentlemen," said the host, "we must look to our conduct in the presence of one who talked with Sir William Wyndham and was a visitor in the house of Sir Hans Sloane before we were born; whose tireless intellect has been a confidant of Nature, a playmate of the Lightning and an inventor of ingenious and useful things; whose wisdom has given to Philadelphia a public library, a work house, good paving, excellent schools, a protection against fire as efficient as any in the world and the best newspaper in the colonies.
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

I think it is a cultural one, not a physical one."
— from Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison

And yet I fear that even his most brilliant joke, if committed to paper, would fall dead upon the public ear; and so, for the present, I shall [Pg 21] leave Charles Ravenshoe to the care of Norah, and pass on to some others who demand our attention more.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley