She gave the hint which led to the discovery of galvanic electricity, now so useful in the arts and in transmitting vocal or written language.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Practically ignorant of the spoliation and persecution practised under Henry the Eighth—of blessed domestic memory—of the further persecution which disfigured the "spacious days of great Elizabeth," not to mention the long and shameful history of the Penal Laws, he fixed his mind upon lurid legends of the reign of unhappy Mary Tudor, illustrated by prints in Fox's Book of Martyrs; upon inquisitorial tortures, the very thought of which—even out of doors in the pleasant spring sunshine—made him break into a heavy sweat, and which, by some grotesque perversion of ideas, he believed to be not only the necessary outcome of, but vitally essential to, the practice of the Faith.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

At the present time there is no descendant of Glaucos existing, nor any hearth which is esteemed to be that of Glaucos, but he has been utterly destroyed and rooted up out of Sparta.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

There lived there a gentleman of Dutch or German extraction, named Creveldt, who had been at deadly feud with a neighbour, Sir Roger de Wheelingham, and the latter died without any reconciliation.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

'Dieser original Gralroman enthielt natürlich keinen Perceval und auch nicht dessen Sagen-motiv, sondern wird den uns sonst bekannten Gral-texten ähnlich gewesen sein.'
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

THE DEFENSE OF GIBRALTAR: EXPERIMENTAL NAVAL AND MILITARY OPERATIONS.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

The cloud became a terror, whose dark womb, Throbbed with keen lightnings, by destruction hurled, Red bolt on bolt, while a drear ominous gloom Enveloped Nature: o’er the startled world— A deep alarum—burst the thunder boom
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

Responsa Juris consultorum de origine gente et nomine Pauli Scaligeri , Colon.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various