Perhaps he was softened by the last extremity o their distress; but his compassion was tardy; his efforts were faint and unavailing; and Constantinople had fallen, before the squadrons of Genoa and Venice could sail from their harbors.
— 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 few wants of nature were chiefly supplied from the scanty productions of her little garden, which the neighbors would now and then cultivate for her.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

"But I could soon find out," said Maggie, scornfully.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

When sounds other than vowels have, in rare cases, syllabic function, this fact is noted in phonetic works by a point, .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In one is a cereal, in the other "hash" or "creamed beef," sausage, or codfish cakes, or whatever the housekeeper thinks of, that can stand for hours and still be edible!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

When I looked from the dovecot I could see far away a blue line which I knew was the sea, and I grew furious to think that our enemies had this secret conning-tower to rake our waterways.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Cleave (split), fendi.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

A lady's handkerchief and purse of crimson silk fall out.]
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

He cannot reconcile himself to rafty bacon, cheese, radishes, turnip-tops, homespun cloth, smock frocks.
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

Of myself I can speak: I cannot speak for a second person.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population Death rate: NA deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population Sex ratio: at birth: NA male(s)/female under 15 years: NA male(s)/female 15-64 years: NA male(s)/female 65 years and over : NA male(s)/female total population: NA male(s)/female Infant mortality rate: NA deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at birth: total population : NA years male: NA years female : NA years Total fertility rate: NA children born/woman Ethnic groups: Russian and Ukrainian 62%, Norwegian 38%, other NEGL% (1994) Languages: Russian, Norwegian @Svalbard:Government Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Svalbard (sometimes referred to as Spitzbergen) Data code: SV Dependency status: territory of Norway; administered by the Ministry of Industry, Oslo, through a governor (sysselmann) residing in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen; by treaty (9 February 1920) sovereignty was given to Norway Government type: NA National capital: Longyearbyen Independence: none (territory of Norway) National holiday:
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[4] And there is another consideration, subtly suggested by Charles Bernard in an article in Le Masque , Série ii, Nos. 7 and 8: the fear of the physical agony of death and the decomposition that follows it intensifies the raptures of health, and even all the moments of pleasure an ageing man can snatch from his decay.
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

Here was a man calmly setting forth the action that had been my very dream of heroism, and here was a call to duty, where duty and ideal blend into one.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

At this moment Ragusa bears the honourable character of a city of refuge for the unhappy ones who seek shelter under the government of a civilized state from the barbarian rule beyond the mountains.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands conventional short form : Northern Mariana Islands Data code: CQ Dependency status: commonwealth in political union with the US; federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the US Department of the Interior, Office of Territorial and International Affairs Government type: commonwealth; self-governing with locally elected governor, lieutenant governor, and legislature National capital: Saipan Administrative divisions: none Independence: none (commonwealth in political union with the US) National holiday:
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

So many routes have been laid out for the Children across the Isthmus, that one can scarcely fail to fall into one of them.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner