115 The pride of Manuel disdained and rejected a Barbarian colleague; his ambition was excited by the hope of stripping the purple from the German usurpers, and of establishing, in the West, as in the East, his lawful title of sole emperor of the Romans.
— 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

Our relations with one another were simple and not strained, but cold, empty, and dreary as relations are between people who have been so long estranged, that even living under the same roof gives no semblance of nearness.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box, where sweets compacted lie My music shews, ye have your closes, And all must die.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let Curdken’s hat go! Blow, breezes, blow! Let him after it go! O’er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl’d
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Let us see how the accounts of disease and remedy are balanced in his "State of the Nation."
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The pride of Manuel disdained and rejected a Barbarian colleague; his ambition was excited by the hope of stripping the purple from the German usurpers, and of establishing, in the West, as in the East, his lawful title of sole emperor of the Romans.
— 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 hours were doped out of the day as reluctantly as black molasses dribbles from a jug.
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

He was certain that the Eternal Word had been made flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, had died and risen, and been exalted; that the Church was now the mysterious channel of His risen life.
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There are also extremes of "retarded development" and "regression," and between them every combination in the interaction of the two factors.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

His fame traveled faster than he did, and reached Athens before him.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[9] The introduction of the system of registration of seamen has, of course, been an admirable check upon desertion after receiving advances, both in the naval and commercial marine.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

After they have made a night of it the boys repair to the [17] “House of Lords” in the district and receive a bath and inoculation of anti-venereal dope.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 13, October, 1920 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

From the Ma sh riqu’l-A dh kár, ordained as a house of worship by Bahá’u’lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the representatives of Bahá’í communities, both local and national, together with the members of their respective committees, will, as they gather daily within its walls at the hour of dawn, derive the necessary inspiration that will enable them to discharge, in the course of their day-to-day exertions in the Hazíratu’l-Quds—the scene of their administrative activities—their duties and responsibilities as befits the chosen stewards of His Faith.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

“What’s the matter?” demanded Ned, doing as requested, and bringing the machine to a sudden stop.
— from The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air by Clarence Young