che per ſua vertu dapoi he acceſo aL epis to di aprutino et principato de teramo.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The door had a gas-lift, so it was impossible to slam, or I would have slammed it.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The Negro membership in other denominations has always been small and relatively unimportant, although the Episcopalians and Presbyterians are gaining among the more intelligent classes to-day, and the Catholic Church is making headway in certain sections.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The Japanese students of Dutch held a golden key which opened the treasures of modern thought and of the world's literature.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

I’ve tried to be a good man, sir, and do my duty honest, and if it wasn’t for the supercilus kind of way in which father carried on last night—a sort of sniffing at me as it were, as though he hadn’t no opinion of my references and testimonials—I should feel easy enough in my mind.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

If we have made him doubt, and given him the 'torpedo's shock,' have we done him any harm? MENO:
— from Meno by Plato

As the laws [ 141 ] of the western Cherokee made it a capital offense to negotiate any sale or exchange of land excepting by authority of council, and the delegates had acted without such authority, they were so doubtful as to what might happen on their return that the Secretary of War sent with them a letter of explanation assuring the Cherokee that their representatives had acted with integrity and earnest zeal for their people and had done the best that could be done with regard to the treaty.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

First of all, it must be remembered that the founder and patron saint of Bolshevism was the Jew Karl Marx, and that it was the Anarchist Bakunin, not the Duke of Northumberland, who described him and his following in the Internationale as "the German-Jew Company" and the "red bureaucracy."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The man at the slicer, having nothing else to do with his eyes, continually observed the comer, but Tess, who was occupied, did not perceive him till her companion directed her attention to his approach.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

I was glad my dress had a pocket.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

When the varlet departed, leaving with the reverend mother, the garment accustomed to model in relief the archiepiscopal proportions of the continent nature of the good man, according to the fashion of the period, beside the image of those things of which the Eternal Father had deprived His angels, and which in the good prelate did not want for amplitude.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

They were interrupted by the clapping of hands, for just then the host rose, and Tom stole gently behind him, taking the seat he had vacated, and preparing himself for the break down he anticipated.
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

So he discarded her, and when we left the station he had been for some time married to another old widow.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

During the times when it was devoted to this fell purpose there stood in Communipaw the Wild Goose tavern, where Dutch burghers resorted, to smoke, drink Hollands, and grow fat, wise, and sleepy in each others' company.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

There are not more than a dozen houses at Arîmeh, but the ancient settlement was more important.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Dick had answered, faintly surprised.
— from Dick Lester of Kurrajong by Mary Grant Bruce

At that date he already knew almost the entire Bible by heart and “had already reached the beginning of the knowledge and faith of Christ, to wit, that we are saved and justified, not by works, but by faith in Christ, and that the Pope is not the head of the Church by right Divine; but I failed to see the inevitable consequence of all this, viz.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

But only he could have told you properly of his enthusiastic devotion, his absorbing interest in these studies, and, most of all, 72 of his disappointing attempts at personal research.
— from The Room with the Little Door by Roland Burnham Molineux