The pontiff, who watched and irritated their devout impatience, was soon persuaded by ancient testimony of the justice of their claim; and he proclaimed a plenary absolution to all Catholics who, in the course of that year, and at every similar period, should respectfully visit the apostolic churches of St. Peter and St. Paul.
— 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

I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Again, notice in the case of the yacht (14) how, by leaving that little angular point at the top, a complete mast is suggested.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Among the rest it is mentioned that ‘Maha Dhammarakkito, théro ( i.e. senior priest) of Yóna, accompanied 153 by 30,000 priests from the vicinity of Alasaddá, the capital of the Yóna country, attended [442] .’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

All these cities are too well known to require description; especially Prayag, at the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The charitable, nevertheless, attributed the alteration in the conduct of the young nobleman to the natural sorrow of a son for the untimely loss of his parents—forgetting, however, his atrocious and reckless behavior during the short period immediately succeeding that bereavement.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Others again, with still more subtlety, regard as the close of the year the time when all the fruits are in their perfect prime and decay has already set in.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He had before this time been smit with the ambition of making a conquest of the young lady's heart, and foresaw manifold advantages to himself in becoming son-in-law to Count Melvil, who, he never doubted, would soon be reconciled to the match, if once it could be effectuated without his knowledge.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Until this can be done it would be far better to cut down largely the number of arrests and committals of the young.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

So she taught the little children; she told stories to the squaws and she won the confidence of the young men of the tribe who would soon be in the council fires.
— from Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens by Margaret W. (Margaret White) Eggleston

As early as 622 the consul of that year, Publius Popillius, the same who directed the prosecutions of the adherents of Tiberius Gracchus, recorded on a public monument that he was "the first who had turned the shepherds out of the domains and installed farmers in their stead"; and tradition otherwise affirms that the distribution extended over all Italy, and that in the formerly existing communities the number of farms was everywhere augmented—for it was the design of the Sempronian agrarian law to elevate the farmer- class not by the founding of new communities, but by the strengthening of those already in existence.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

"'Gene, I can only thank you for what you have done.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

The princess came over this year to England, and was married to Ethelred [e].
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

Belden, the White Chief, or Twelve Years among the Wild Indians of the Plains.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

"Well, it was this way--I saw a cake of this Yellow-eating in the Factor's Shack; you know the square holes they leave for light--it was in one of those.
— from Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries by William Alexander Fraser

But the village people saw only a healthy, handsome girl, "overgrown," they thought, and "as queer as her father before her," they said, for Draxy, very early in life, had withdrawn herself somewhat from the companionship of the young people of the town.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

438 GRAND CANON OF THE YELLOWSTONE.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn