[ As late as the xth century, the Greek emperors conferred on the dukes of Venice, Naples, Amalphi, &c., the title of upatoV or consuls, (see Chron.
— 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 Rule Of Publique Good: Aristotle, and other Heathen Philosophers define Good, and Evill, by the Appetite of men; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own Law:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It is impossible to calculate the good effects which such a change would bring about in our social, civil and political arrangements.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

[45] Before anything is begun it is a custom to go early in the morning to a neighbour's house, and overhear the first words that may be spoken in his family, and according as the words heard are of good or bad import, so draw an inference as to the success or failure of the undertaking.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

A wonderful party of coffee-and-milk to celebrate the great event.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

I shall persuade her if I can to go early to bed, for I am sure she wants rest.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

As already mentioned, he constructed the palaces where the gods resided, fashioned the golden shoes with which they trod the air or water, built for them their wonderful chariots, and shod with brass the horses of celestial breed, which conveyed these glittering equipages over land and sea.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

When they all arrived there they held a meeting at which the king said to him, "It is told me concerning thy government, Erling, that no man from Sogn Lake to the Naze can enjoy his freedom for thee; although there are many men there who consider themselves born to udal rights, and have their privileges like others born as they are.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Suddenly hereafter he drew his brackmard or horseman’s sword, wherewith he gave the keeper which held him on the right side such a sound slash that he cut clean through the jugulary veins and the sphagitid or transparent arteries of the neck, with the fore-part of the throat called the gargareon, even unto the two adenes, which are throat kernels; and, redoubling the blow, he opened the spinal marrow betwixt the second and third vertebrae.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

After this Edward II. came the great Edward III.—known to us through Froissart and the Black [83] Prince
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

Nor was I deceived, for soon I heard the very distant and low tones of a human voice, which, as I continued to give ear, grew steadily louder and nearer.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The infantry then attacked and cleared the ground, entered Harmignies, and held a line to the east.
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward

The Veratrum, with its large, deeply plaited, undivided leaves is in striking contrast, but the two kinds of plants, in groups as the plan shows, with running patches of the large form of Megasea cordifolia , the great Euphorbia Wulfenii and [Pg 23]
— from Colour in the flower garden by Gertrude Jekyll

The ominous circumstance of this ball was also considered, the great expense at which the Irish glover lived, and his giving away gloves; which was a sure sign he was not under any necessity to sell them; and consequently a proof that, though he pretended to be a glover, he was something wrong in disguise.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

He must give me a chance to get even.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

I feel certain, however, that he had no such previous knowledge, because, if he had, he would have impressed on the action of his colleagues the greater energy which springs from certainty.
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

The Duc d’Orléans, to whom I was much attached, for he could be a staunch friend, took me one day on leaving the Palais-Royal to a sorcerer, a fortune-teller, whom they called the “Great Etrella.”
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

Quant à ce duc Philippe qu'on surnomma le Bon, ce n'est point ici le lieu d'examiner s'il mérita bien véritablement ce titre glorieux, et si l'histoire n'auroit pas à lui faire des reproches de plus d'un genre.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt