In 1845 Bixiou showed Paris and the "Unconscious Humorists" to a Pyrrenean named Gazonal, in company with Leon de Lora, a cousin of the countryman.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

For the prosperity of a People ruled by an Aristocraticall, or Democraticall assembly, commeth not from Aristocracy, nor from Democracy, but from the Obedience, and Concord of the Subjects; nor do the people flourish in a Monarchy, because one man has the right to rule them, but because they obey him.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I was a little at a loss to perceive the necessity of such a mighty array of forces to maintain a point which no one present seemed inclined to dispute; but I soon found that the good man had a legion of ideal adversaries to contend with, having in the course of his researches on the subject of Christmas got completely embroiled in the sectarian controversies of the Revolution, when the Puritans made such a fierce assault upon the ceremonies of the Church, and poor old Christmas was driven out of the land by proclamation of Parliament.*
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Capt. C. after traveling about 20 miles through the valley with the course of the river nearly N. W. encamped on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Here is a case of the sort—paragraph from the 'Cincinnati Commercial'— 'The towboat “Jos. B. Williams” is on her way to New Orleans with a tow of thirty-two barges, containing six hundred thousand bushels (seventy-six pounds to the bushel) of coal exclusive of her own fuel, being the largest tow ever taken to New Orleans or anywhere else in the world.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In one place seven wild elephants crossed the track, but two of them got away before I could overtake them.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

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— from The Divine Comedy by Dante by Dante Alighieri

The pilgrims, who visited Jerusalem, eagerly copied, in the most distant climates of the earth, the faithful model of the monastic life.
— 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

In every department of this world of thought, the sudden feeling of power which an idea imparts to him who is responsible for it, is placed to the credit of that idea:—and as there seems no other way of honouring an idea than by calling it true, the first epithet it is honoured with is the word true. ...
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

During [p.30] the same season it appeared in August at Tampico, Campeachy, Vera Cruz, and the city of Mexico, proving especially violent and destructive in these and other cities of the Republic.
— from Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure by Elijah Whitney

“I have, therefore, now to offer your Society a thousand pounds toward the purchase chase of a steamer, of the best make and capacity, every way suitable for the purpose, and its conveyance and launch on the river at Stanley Pool, and three thousand pounds to be carefully invested, the interest only to be used for the perpetual maintenance of such steamer on the Congo and its affluents, until Christ and his salvation shall be known all along the Congo from Stanley Pool to the first cataract of the equatorial cataracts of the Congo—beyond the mouths of the Armvimi and Mbura Rivers.”
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 09, September, 1880 by Various

Polly thanked her, and then added:— [Pg 232] “I wouldn’t take it, as I told Patricia before I came, only that I want the money for a very special purpose.”
— from Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Emma C. Dowd

The following communication addressed to the chairman of the National Committee of the Peoples Party was sent to Washington, D. C. "To the Hon.
— from The Pullman Boycott: A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns

In Mimosa excitation is manifested by the contraction of the pulvinus and the consequent movement of the leaf.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

When they came out they ran over the grass to dry themselves, and then began playing lawn tennis, just as they were, stark naked, the future rulers of England.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

We neither avail ourselves of the one, nor discharge the other, unless we come, morning by morning, to the new day that is dawning upon us, with some fresh consciousness of the large issues that may be wrapped in its unseen hours, and the great things for Him that we may do ere its evening falls.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

I do not say that at the creation of the world it may not have been a very striking thing, worth getting up to look at; but you must admit that by this time it is a little played out.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

They wore the long sheep-skin pelisse, with pants stuffed into their boots, and Cossack or Tartar caps.
— from Northern Lands; Or, Young America in Russia and Prussia by Oliver Optic