3156 Capera stood on the site now called Las Ventas de Capara, between Alcantara and Coria.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The arts of persuasion, so diligently cultivated by the first Cæsars, were neglected by the military ignorance and Asiatic pride of their successors; and if they condescended to harangue the soldiers, whom they feared, they treated with silent disdain the senators, whom they despised.
— 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

But if the day come before he get on shore, then, unless he be carried he cannot escape.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Earl returned, and Dr. Cranmer, by the king's desire, visited the emperor, and was successful in bringing him over to his opinion.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“Three plates at the side of which were some half-washed forks, were placed on a table of yellow wood in the middle of which stood an earthenware dish containing boiled beef and potatoes.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He enables Cyprian to move mountains and conquer beasts, until he boasts that he can excel his infernal teacher, but the Devil cannot bring Justina.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Looky here, didn’t de line pull loose en de raf’ go a-hummin’ down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?” “What fog?” “Why, de fog!—de fog dat’s been aroun’ all night.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Instead of arguments for confession, he could now feel the presence of nothing but its evil consequences: the old dread of disgrace came back—the old shrinking from the thought of raising a hopeless barrier between himself and Nancy—the old disposition to rely on chances which might be favourable to him, and save him from betrayal.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

It was the sight of the Marquis of Steyne's carriage-lamps at her door, contemplated by Raggles, burning in the blackness of midnight, "that kep him up," as he afterwards said, that even more than Rebecca's arts and coaxings.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

As to my own particular, I do certainly believe that since that age, both my understanding and my constitution have rather decayed than improved, and retired rather than advanced.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But those far more horrible wars, by which, in the sixteenth century, France was desolated, were conducted in the name of Christianity, and even the political struggles of the great families were merged in a deadly contest between Catholics and Protestants.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

If a couple of persons, duly called by banns in their own respective parishes, or furnished with the right reverend’s perquisite, a licence, come to me, a clerk in holy orders, and ask me to marry them, I’ve a vague idea that unless I comply I lay myself open to the penalties of praemunire, or something else equally awful and mysterious.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

“Hugh de Cressi, by Christ’s holy Name!”
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The fighting all night was of a deadly character, but we had then got the Quarries, and were not going to let the enemy have them again.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

When Mrs Dorothy said this, Phoebe felt conscious of a dim conviction, buried somewhere very deep down, that there was something which she hoped God would not demand from her.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

And you know what's waiting for him if he does come back, unless he's got an awfully good explanation.
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

No defence can be more lame and wretched; and hardly any more impudent.
— from The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

In the small-town newspaper it may not be possible for the publisher to render such service, but an effort in the same direction can be made by varying the border treatment.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

A prudent trader usually considers it safe to draw considerably beyond his floating capital, and to borrow say 50 per cent.
— from If Not Silver, What? by John W. (John Wesley) Bookwalter