The same constraint imposed the necessity of dissembling in the eyes of Rome and of the world; the pride and cruelty of Urban presented a more inevitable danger; and they soon discovered the features of the tyrant, who could walk in his garden and recite his breviary, while he heard from an adjacent chamber six cardinals groaning on the rack.
— 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

Porthos called him drunk, and the stranger drew his sword.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Flashing weapons, blazing torches, smoking waggonloads of wet straw, hard work at neighbouring barricades in all directions, shrieks, volleys, execrations, bravery without stint, boom smash and rattle, and the furious sounding of the living sea; but, still the deep ditch, and the single drawbridge, and the massive stone walls, and the eight great towers, and still Defarge of the wine-shop at his gun, grown doubly hot by the service of Four fierce hours.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Foment intrigue and deceit, and thus sow dissension between the ruler and his ministers.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

When Dexter dies all things shall droop, Lord East, Lord West, Lord North shall stoop, And then Lord South with pomp shall come, And bear his body to the tomb.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

They made Sixty Mile, which is a fifty-mile run, on the first day; and the second day saw them booming up the Yukon well on their way to Pelly.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Mena founded the first dynasty, and the second dynasty seems to have been connected with his house; it was, at all events, from the nome of This.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

This oratorical effort had the effect of checking the more active signs of disapproval, and the party of disorder attempted to settle down once more to their carouse, and to ignore the shower of Scripture which was poured upon them.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

His graphic description of the battle of Shiloh, in which his famous father met death and the South defeat, is now accepted, even in the North, as the best account of that desperate conflict.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Not only the whole direction of the life is changed, but the motive power is different, and the spirit different.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Derry and Toms stepped down off the bank with complete assurance and superb dignity.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

There was Mrs. Featherstone struggling to conceal her chagrin and dismay at the sudden downfall of her dramatic ambition; Mark standing apart with bent head and hands behind him like a man facing a firing party; Mabel struck speechless and motionless by the shock; and Caffyn with the air of one who has fulfilled an unpalatable duty.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

With ten shillings in my pocket, her parting gift, and my scanty library of three volumes packed among my clothes on my back, I plodded the twelve miles to Ware, satisfied the learned Mr. D---- that I had had the small-pox, would sleep three in a bed, and knew more than he did; and the same day was duly engaged to teach in his classical seminary, in return for my board, lodging, washing, and nine guineas a year.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

I dare affirm, that so distinguishing a mark of honour and good will from such a Parliament, was more acceptable to a person of Mr. H[arle]y's generous nature, than the most bountiful grant that was ever yet made to a subject; as her Majesty's answer, filled with gracious expressions in his favour, adds more to his real glory, than any titles she could bestow.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

The family of Omeyyad had given fourteen Khalifs to the Mahommedan empire from 661 to 750; at which time the then reigning Omeyyad was deposed, and the second dynasty of Khalifs commenced, called Abbaside , after Abbas, an uncle of the Prophet.
— from A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele