The skill and perseverance of the Roman at length prevailed; and the Goths, after sustaining a considerable loss from disease and desertion, gradually retreated to the lofty mountain of Pholoe, near the sources of the Peneus, and on the frontiers of Elis; a sacred country, which had formerly been exempted from the calamities of war.
— 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

Wild dreams get real —————————— In the future, we will be able to do several things simultaneously on the same telephone line.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

“Anyhow I must go where my daughter goes,” rejoined the old woman.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

In 1877 M. Gaston Paris called the attention of the learned to it, and the result was that the Danish Government received it next year in exchange for a valuable French manuscript which was in the Royal Library at Copenhagen.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

* * Death gives relief and death is peaceful.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Next day Giafar returned to Bagdad, bearing with him the king, Saouy, and Noureddin.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

At Rome Velasquez found there before him, Domenichino, Guido Reni, alternating 'between the excitements of the gaming table and the sweet creations of his smooth flowing pencil;' 'Nicolas Poussin, an adventurer fresh from his Norman village; and Claude Gelée, a pastry-cook's runaway apprentice from Lorraine.'
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

He who doth God resist— God's old antagonist— Would snap the chain that binds all things to him; And in his godless pride, All peoples would divide, And scatter even the choirs of seraphim.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

D. G. Rossetti.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

The numerous expeditions thither, set on foot by him, and in which he had so large a concern as to cause them to be called his voyages, no doubt gave rise to the popular error.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Don Giovanni remains unshaken in his wicked fortitude.
— from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

"Da v'ice soun' so nice un fine da' Granny Rabbit is bin t'ink 'e B'er Rabbit v'ice, un 'e is bin-a let da bahskit down.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Finally it was found on the wrong curtain, minus the point, and this disability gave rise to a discussion.
— from The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler

The fractured surface presents a dark greenish resinous appearance.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York