Wheresover a thinker appeared, there in the thing he thought of was a contribution, accession, a change or revolution made.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

of the church of Rheims might inspire some confidence, which is destroyed, however, by the selfish and audacious fictions of Hincmar.
— 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

But the boy Ascanius, whose surname is now Iülus—Ilus he was while the Ilian state stood sovereign—thirty great circles of rolling months shall he fulfil in government; he shall carry the kingdom from its fastness in Lavinium, and make a strong fortress of Alba the Long.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The life there depicted appeared to him wholly unlike that of Christian commonwealths, in which 'he saw nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the Commonwealth.'
— from The Republic by Plato

Yet so powerful was this flying army, that Vitiges spared ten thousand men for the defence of the cities which he was most solicitous to preserve, and detached his nephew Uraias, with an adequate force, for the chastisement of rebellious Milan.
— 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 language, therefore, might be said to consist of raw material, much in the same manner as our thought language is broken up by the dream work into its raw materials when the expressions of relationship are left out.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Of course, I gave out with some ostentation, especially among the rebels, that we were going to Charleston or Augusta; but I had long before made up my mind to waste no time on either, further than to play off on their fears, thus to retain for their protection a force of the enemy which would otherwise concentrate in our front, and make the passage of some of the great rivers that crossed our route more difficult and bloody.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

953 in the consulship of Rubrius Marius and Asinius Gallus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But instead of adopting this course of retaliation, Mrs Jarley, on second thoughts, brought out the suspicious bottle, and ordering glasses to be set forth upon her favourite drum, and sinking into a chair behind it, called her satellites about her, and to them several times recounted, word for word, the affronts she had received.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Florence had no special command of raw material for her manufactures, no sea-port of her own, and no monopoly unless in the natural genius of her people.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

My purpose here is to show that the only chance of reforming most alcoholics lies in giving them opportunity through this physiological change to reëstablish confidence in themselves.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

The “great strike” at Smith's Pocket has been heralded abroad, and above and below, and on either side of the crumbling tunnel that bears that name, as other tunnels are piercing the bowels of the mountain, shafts are being sunk, and claims are taken up even to the crest of Red Mountain, in the hope of striking the great Smith lead.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

These facts rest on the confession of Ratel. Mallet, pitying the woman Bryond’s position, offers her an asylum.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It consisted chiefly of running messages or blacking boots or boiling water.
— from A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

I can only recall my breathless first sight of the Public Library and of the Athenaeum Gallery: great sights then, which the Vatican and the Pitti hardly afterwards eclipsed for mere emotion.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

The Means used to make this Discovery, was to make a Cake of Rye Meal, with the Urine of the Children, and Bake it in the Ashes, and give it to a Dog to eat.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Calef

A carpet of verdure variegated by the innumerable hues and shades of myriads of flowers, shrubs and trees, spreads over the crust of reanimated Mother Earth—which scenery, combined with the beautiful sky of a California heaven, grants a sublime sight to the beholder and admirer of the garden of nature.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

I had never felt as if there were any chance of Richard marrying any one; I had not said to myself, that his love for me still had an existence, nor had I any reason to believe it.
— from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris