By religion they understand a distinct, independent, sacred moral code, which has but one origin, one source, and one object.
— 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

I stood beside the carriage, and, the window being down, I saw my happy friend fondly encircle his companion’s waist with his arm, while she rested her glowing cheek on his shoulder, looking the very impersonation of loving, trusting bliss.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

It was right, he argued, that, after the city had provided all that was necessary for war, it should devote its surplus money to the erection of buildings which would be a glory to it for all ages, while these works would create plenty by leaving no man unemployed, and encouraging all sorts of handicraft, so that nearly the whole city would earn wages, and thus derive both its beauty and its profit from itself.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Preferably also do I shroud my head, and flee, before being recognised: and thus do I bid you do, my friends!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We shall now endeavor, with clearness and precision, to describe the provinces once united under their sway, but, at present, divided into so many independent and hostile states.
— 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

‘So do I’ said Mr. Pickwick; ‘that’s he.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I am in a little care through my at last putting a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King’s upon tallies for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my trunk is a temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure for six months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Another mode is to pass through all the degrees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael's Square, [434] being steeped in Cologne water, [435] and perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography, and politics, and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

After an animal has been injected with a radioactive precursor of RNA, some of it will be incorporated into DNA as well as into RNA (remember that the precursors of RNA lack specificity), and part of the precursor will be broken down into smaller molecules.
— from Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised) by Walter E. Kisieleski

Such articles when forfeited shall be destroyed in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury or the court, as the case may be, shall direct:
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

“He delights in showing mercy and forgiveness.
— from The Trapper's Son by William Henry Giles Kingston

And I said I thought she could do it,' said Molly with tearful eyes; '
— from Odd by Amy Le Feuvre

—Resume the position of “Attention,” as directed in “Second motion.”
— from Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson-Winn, Baron

The kidney may be the seat of cancerous or simple tumors, and it may be unnaturally enlarged or reduced in size, but though there may be signs of urinary disorder the true nature of the disease is seldom manifest until after death.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

He was such an elder brother to me--a thing I never had and do not want--that a dozen times a day I set my teeth viciously together and said to myself that if ever we met in London--but what nonsense that was, because, of course, it mattered nothing to me what he was thinking, only he had no right to be so rudely familiar.
— from The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman

"Oh, Sir," she said, looking on him now as a friend, "I dreamed I saw Mr. Neville lying dead upon the snow, with the blood trickling from his temple."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The sultans who followed are, in the order of their succession, Sultan Bungsu, 74 Sultan Nasirud 75 Din, Sultan Karamat, 76 Sultan Shahabud 77 Din, Sultan Mustafa 78 called Shapiud 79 Din, Sultan Mohammed Nasarud 80 Din, Sultan Alimud 81 Din I, Sultan Mohammed Muʿizzid 82 Din, Sultan Isra’il, 83 Sultan Mohammed Alimud Din II, Sultan Mohammed Sarapud 84 Din, Sultan Mohammed Alimud Din III.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby