The prince certainly had darted a rather piercing look at her, and now observed that she had begun to blush violently.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The hermit did as Ráma prayed, And in a spot his lodging made, [pg 062] Far from the crowd, sequestered, clear, With copious water flowing near.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

From thence, wheeling round the Thracian cities of the Propontis, Moslemah invested Constantinople on the land side, surrounded his camp with a ditch and rampart, prepared and planted his engines of assault, and declared, by words and actions, a patient resolution of expecting the return of seed-time and harvest, should the obstinacy of the besieged prove equal to his own.
— 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

Han podido transferir directamente a sus propios bancos las deudas de los comerciantes de Río de Janeiro o Buenos Aires, por medio de las letras de aceptación remitidas por estos últimos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The systemic normal aortic arch may be obliterated as far up as the innominate branch , and while the ductus arteriosus remains pervious, and leading from the pulmonary artery to the descending part of the aortic arch, this vessel would then present the appearance of a branch ascending from the left side and giving off the brachio-cephalic arteries.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I had visited her in better days, and received particular marks of her favour.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

When doubled it points to the doctrines and peculiar opinions of Plato; ※ when dotted all round, points to some select bits of beautiful writing.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Hence, when the same species occur at the bottom, middle, and top of a formation, the probability is that they have not lived on the same spot during the whole period of deposition, but have disappeared and reappeared, perhaps many times, during the same geological period.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

* Note: Gibbon should have noticed the distinct and remarkable passage from Chrysostom, quoted by Middleton, (Works, vol.
— 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 only events were feast days and religious processions, with now and then an earthquake, and once, thirty years before 69 the War of Independence, the terror of an Indian insurrection far up in the plateau.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

He appeared already a long way off, like a figure vanishing down a remote perspective.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

But all who unite knowledge and fairness now admit, not only his perfect loyalty, but the almost unexampled heroism and steadfastness with which for some ten or fifteen years after Newman's secession, against popular obloquy, against something very like persecution from the authorities of the Church and the University, and against the constant and repeated discouragement given by the desertion of friends and colleagues, he upheld his cause and made the despised and reproached "Puseyites" of his middle life what he lived to see them—the greatest and almost the dominant party in the Anglican Church.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

Rochester demands a romance [Pg 106] of the Ivanhoe type; chivalry or necessities of State should have ennobled slaughter here, but a tale of secret murder for private ends vulgarises and tarnishes the place, especially when it is told with all Dickens’ wealth of local allusion.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It was in this way that the permanent neutralization of Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxemburg was effected, the navigation of the so-called international rivers in Europe declared free, the slave-trade abolished, the grades of diplomatic agents regulated, privateering abolished, the necessity of effectiveness in a blockade recognized, the principle 'free ships, free goods' finally established, neutral goods on enemy ships declared free, rules provided in the interest of those wounded in battle, explosive bullets under the weight of 400 grammes forbidden, the Suez Canal neutralized, and so forth.
— from The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

It was proposed to punish Chikumbi when Syde bin Omar came, as he is in debt and refuses payment; but I go off to Casembe.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

President Barack H. OBAMA (since 20 January 2009); Vice President Joseph R. BIDEN (since 20 January 2009) head of government: Governor Felix P. CAMACHO (since 6 January 2003); Lieutenant Governor Dr. Michael W. CRUZ (since 1 January 2007) cabinet: heads of executive departments; appointed by the governor with the consent of the Guam legislature elections: under the US Constitution, residents of unincorporated territories, such as Guam, do not vote in elections for US president and vice president; however, they may vote in Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections; governor and lieutenant governor elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year term (can serve two consecutive terms, then must wait a full term before running again); election last held 7 November 2006 (next to be held in November 2010)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The same Plato also tells us that nature put eyesight into us, in order that 336 the soul by beholding and admiring the heavenly bodies might accustom itself to welcome and love harmony and order, and might hate disorderly and roving propensities, and avoid aimless reliance on chance, as the parent of all vice and error.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

It is a striking and melancholy illustration of the moral infirmity of human nature, that the author of the "Saints' Everlast [i.354] ing Rest," and the "Call to the Unconverted," permitted such a vengeful feeling against the Establishment to enter his breast, that he took pleasure, and almost exulted, in relating the fate of this innocent and aged clergyman, whom he denominates, in derision, a "Reading Parson."
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham