c. 39, p. 575,) asserts, that he left Rome on the third day; but this difference is easily reconciled by the successive motions of great bodies of troops.
— 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

“Ay,” replied the Templar, “the idea of death is easily received by the courageous mind, when the road to it is sudden and open.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

only that the food of this fowl is almost entirely that of the leaf and buds of the pulpy leafed thorn, nor do I ever recollect Seeing this bird but in the neighbourhood of that Shrub.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nor did I ever regard him as having anything ludicrous about him—or anything but what was serious, honest, and good—in his tutor communication with me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

It is almost safe to make the statement that no dinner is ever really well done unless the hostess herself knows every smallest detail thoroughly.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The Rakshasi looked fierce and said, “Do I eat raw flesh?”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending, as is well known wherever any such lectures are given.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

These symptoms are in fact the more conspicuous, the more clamorous; they show an unquestionable similarity to those of hysteria, or less often to those of compulsion neurosis, and yet they are different in every respect.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But, if the unexpected sound of these felicitations delivered in English, roused and struck me, how much greater arose my astonishment and delight when the French monarch, in an accent of the most condescending familiarity and pleasure, uttered his acknowledgments in English also-expressing his gratitude for all their attentions, his sense of their kind interest in his favour, and his eternal remembrance of the obligations he owed to the whole county of Buckinghamshire, for the asylum and consolations he had found in it during his trials and calamities!
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

The 15th Division is easily recruited from the populous districts of the Rhine Provinces.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

Then spake the youthful Meljanz, 'Yea, courteous knights and true 865 Were ye, when I dwelt among ye, nor your rede did I ever rue.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

The story is up to date in every respect.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It was one of the greatest disappointments I ever remember."
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

It {332} was covered with gayly painted barges, containing happy family parties, whose musicians played for them as the rowers slowly and idly propelled the boat; others, in sharp-prowed barisæ, darted in emulous races across the water; others were suspended upon the bosom of the stream, fishing for amusement; while others still moved about, with their beautifully pictured sails spread to the gentle breeze, as if enjoying the panorama of the shores they were gliding past.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Synonyms: adore, delight in, extol, respect, venerate, applaud, enjoy, honor, revere, wonder.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

The hire of each horse for the forty days, after due deductions, is eight rupees, one anna.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

The escape from the durance vile of shipboard, with its monotonous days and dreary nights, its ill-regulated appointments, its cramped accommodation, its uncertain duration, its eternal round of unchanging amusements, for the freedom of the shore, with a land breeze, and a firm footing to tread upon; and certainly, not least of all, the sight of that brightest part of creation, whose soft eyes and tight ankles are, perhaps, the greatest of all imaginable pleasures to him who has been the dweller on blue water for several weeks long.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever