The answer of Maximin to the address which he obtained from the citizens of Tyre is still extant.
— 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 cause of this I shall endeavor to investigate hereafter.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But pleasure and pain are simultaneous, and the cessation of them is simultaneous; e.g. in the case of drinking and thirsting, whereas good and evil are not simultaneous, and do not cease simultaneously, and therefore pleasure cannot be the same as good.
— from Gorgias by Plato

After a short pause in the conversation, Mr. Weston made some remark addressed particularly to me, as referring to something we had been talking of before; but before I could answer, Miss Murray replied to the observation and enlarged upon it: he rejoined; and, from thence to the close of the interview, she engrossed him entirely to herself.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The low coast of Tabor Island, scarcely emerging from the sea, was not more than fifteen miles distant.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Oh!, frutos de mis desvelos, fruit of my waking eyes, peñas a quien yo animé stones to which I gave life y por quienes arrostré for whom I bore the strife la intemperie de los cielos; of the intemperate skies; el que forma y ser os dio he who gave you form and being va ya a perderos de vista; will now lose you from his sight; ¡velad mi gloria de artista, since you will live longer than I, pues viviréis más que yo! watch over my glory, unseeing.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The dismissal from column of twos is similarly executed.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

(5) Curvature of the field of the image.—-If the above errors be eliminated, the two astigmatic surfaces united, and a sharp image obtained with a wide aperture—there remains the necessity to correct the curvature of the image surface, especially when the image is to be received upon a plane surface, e.g. in photography.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

These seldæ seem to have been sheds, on a large scale, used as warehouses, and belonged probably only to public Guilds, or men of considerable opulence; there is some evidence also that cranes and balances for the ascertaining of Customs and Pesage were kept beneath them.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

Also, the K. sent into Ireland (to purge out the euill & wicked séeds of rebellion amongst the wild and sauage Irish people, sowed there by crafie conueiance of Perkin Warbecke) sir Henrie Deane, late abbat of Langtonie (whome he made chancellor of that Ile) & sir Edward Poinings knight, with an armie of men.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

It was the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and from all around the country-folk thronged in pilgrimage to the church of the Immaculate; since earliest morning I had heard the note of bagpipes, which continued to sound before the street shrines all day long.
— from By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing

“Crossed on the ice!” said every one present.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe