Prince Peter Mikháylovich Volkónski occupied the position, as it were, of chief of the Emperor’s staff.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

e chronology of the earlier Scriptures should ever have been made a religious question—M.] Note 63 ( return ) [ Most of these pictures were borrowed from a misrepresentation of Isaiah, Daniel, and the Apocalypse.
— 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

When the chaise had carried off the enraged Slipslop, Adams, Joseph, and Fanny assembled over the fire, where they had a great deal of innocent chat, pretty enough; but, as possibly it would not be very entertaining to the reader, we shall hasten to the morning; only observing that none of them went to bed that night.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

What is accounted so great an advantage in the case of the English system of government at home has been its misfortune in India—that it grew up of itself, not from preconceived design, but by successive expedients, and by the adaptation of machinery originally created for a different purpose.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Plate XXII Putting a Canoe into its Hangar The canoes on the East shores of Boyowa are seldom used, and when idle are housed in shelters, built very much like ordinary huts, only much larger.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He corrects some faults of Eratosthenes, and, in his inquiry concerning the natural changes of the earth’s surface defends Eratosthenes against Hipparchus.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

She learnt Latin without a master; and when, the age of eighteen, she accidentally became possessor of a copy of the Essays, she was transported with delight and admiration.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

That vast level tract of our territory lying between Missouri and the Rocky Mountains represents a condition of the earth's surface which has preceded, in most instances, the mountainous or hilly type so prevalent elsewhere, and may be called, in so far, incompletely developed.
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

Another interesting Court cupboard, of the early seventeenth century, shows the more restrained style that was rapidly succeeding the earlier work.
— from Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors by Arthur Hayden

I have been accustomed to consider one half our national domain, exclusive of Alaska, good arable land in the absence of any "speculation" on that point in the records of the Department of Agriculture; but from the returns given by the chiefs of the experiment stations and secretaries of agriculture of the States hereafter cited, that estimate may be increased probably to two thirds, or 2,000,000 square miles of arable land out of a total of 3,000,000 square miles, omitting Alaska.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 by Various

A fog and a cloud are identical in structure, though the former is due to thermal conditions of the earth’s surface, while the latter is most frequently clue to the dynamic cooling of ascending air.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Slowly the Connecticut led the way and, when just beyond old Fort Santa Cruz on the eastern side, boomed a salute to the port.
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

Finding themselves anticipated, the Dutch returned home, and the scheme of cutting off the English settlements on the upper Connecticut from the rest of New England was frustrated.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

When I was a child, attending the first classes of the elementary schools, there was a kind teacher who was very fond of us.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

“I am afraid there’s not much chance of that, Ernest,” said Wilmore.
— from Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams