Chapter X: Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian And Gallienus—Part I. The Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian, And Gallienus.—The General Irruption Of The Barbarians.—The Thirty Tyrants.
— 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

Chords in different groups alternately (cf.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

This day I did get a list of the fourteen particular miscarriages which are already before the Committee to be examined; wherein, besides two or three that will concern this Office much, there are those of the prizes, and that of Bergen, and not following the Dutch ships, against my Lord Sandwich; that, I fear, will ruine him, unless he hath very good luck, or they may be in better temper before he can come to be charged: but my heart is full of fear for him and his family.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A clumsy awkwardness characterises every movement of the blockhead; folly imprints its mark on every gesture, and so do genius and a reflective nature.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

As the golden summer changed into the deep golden autumn he went to the Lake of Como.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Then she caught sight of a cat trying to get at a dish of prawns on the kitchen table, and with a dexterous gesture and a lively volley of abuse flung a book at its scampering tail.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The branches are slender and thinner than robusta ; the leaves are dark green and narrower; the flowers are often tinged with red; the unripe berries are purple, the ripe berries bright red and oblong.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I too am deeply unhappy and ... and ..." "Unhappy"—the doctor gave a sneering laugh—"Don't touch the word, it's got nothing to do with you.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The seven divine generations are "born," but do nothing except that they give Izanagi and Izanami a jewelled spear.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It is not, however, on these details that we desire to dwell, but to use the scenes before us as a background and contrast to magnify certain features in the death, grave, and abiding influence of Jesus of Nazareth.
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

The widow Donelson glances across from the corn bread she is mixing.
— from When Men Grew Tall, or The Story of Andrew Jackson by Alfred Henry Lewis

Were she to be ungrateful, it would much displease God, and perhaps He would not leave her unpunished.
— from Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

Arrival in India.—Insect and Reptile Life.—Madura.—City of Trichinopoly.—Car of Juggernaut.—Temple of Tanjore.—Travelling in India.—Madras.—Street Dancing Girls.—Arrival at Calcutta.—Cremating [Pg vii] the Dead.—A Fashionable Driveway.—The Himalayan Mountains.—Apex of the Globe.—Tea Gardens of India.—A Wretched Peasantry.—Ancient Ruins.—City of Benares.—Worship of Animals.—Cawnpore.—Delhi.—Agra.—A Splendid Tomb.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

The fisherman laughed in his little craft, If a landsman felt alarm, For never did gale a ship assail, Or a sailor suffer harm; There was nothing to fear, for the skies were clear, And the ocean always calm.
— from Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

Delacroix is a man of a very different genius, and his ‘Medea’ is a genuine creation of a noble fancy.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

It is but justice to admit that Davoust displayed great activity in the defence, and began by laying in large supplies.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Duwes, Giles : An Introductorie for to lerne to rede, to pronounce, and to speke Frenche trewly, compyled for the right high excellent and most vertuous lady, the lady Mary of Englande, daughter to our most gracious soverayn Lorde Kyng Henry the Eight.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

As to the Marquis de Gevres, as he will never marry * * * , he will be exempt; but you, Monsieur de Nesle, you are so and so.”
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

Meanwhile the doctor's mate of the Mercury came privately on board the prison sloop and presented me with a large vial of smart drops, which proved to be good for the scurvy, though vegetables and some other ingredients were requisite for a cure; but the drops gave at least a check to the disease.
— from Of the Capture of Ticonderoga: His Captivity and Treatment by the British by Ethan Allen