After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed by the nations of Europe, the most distinguished portion of human kind in arts and learning as well as in arms.
— 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 view too of those baths, that gain From all who know them praise, And that proud edifice which Moors And Goths combined to raise, In some parts harsh, in some more light, Here ruins, there repair’d, The different dominations pass’d Are thus by each declared; With records, and remembrances Of ages long pass’d by, And of more modern years alike To arrest the fantasy.
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

So far as the production of crops is concerned the distribution of rainfall is more important than the annual amount, as may be shown by comparing the rainfall in such places as Columbus, Ohio, and Lincoln, Nebraska.
— from The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

Maurice did not suspect how Bertha was employed at that moment, and how much his heart would have had cause to rejoice if she proved successful in her undertaking.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Not as long as J. Edgar Hoover continues to run it so perfectly.
— from Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sidney Bowen

Speaking of the monks and of the worship of relics, Eunapius says: "Whoever wore a black dress was invested with tyrannical power; [321] philosophy and piety to the gods were compelled to retire into secret places, and to dwell in contented poverty and dignified meanness of appearance.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

"It may be the assembled good-bye of all the prophets and apostles to their old Church," said he: "that shape afaint above yonder in white is Elijah translated far with robes aflaunt, and that charmed to rose is St Paul caught up in trance to the third heaven."
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Six months before I encountered her in Paris, she had fallen sick from overwork, and had come to relatives in Southern Prance to regain her strength.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

When the cavalry crossed the Rappahannock in September, pushing back Stuart's cavalry to Brandy Station, Culpepper C.H., and across the Rapidan, Custer, as usual, was with the advance, and in one engagement was slightly wounded by a piece of a shell—the first and only time he was wounded during the war.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

"As a private citizen," he said, "the Executive could not have consented that Republican institutions shall perish; much less could he in betrayal of so vast and so sacred a trust as these free people have confided to him."
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine