A devil on one side reads the long list of her shortcomings, and on the other side hell-mouth is receiving other sinners.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

As the swing reached its highest point, Arcady really lay just over the brow of a certain hill, where the brown road dwindled out of sight in a golden dot.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

He sent two expeditions against the Dacians; the first upon the defeat of Oppius Sabinus, a man of consular rank; and (484) the other, upon that of Cornelius Fuscus, prefect of the pretorian cohorts, to whom he had entrusted the conduct of that war.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Here, for example, a man has daily opportunities of seeing the most remarkable characters of the community.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the second chapter of this work we have attempted to explain in what manner the most civilized provinces of Europe, Asia, and Africa were united under the dominion of one sovereign, and gradually connected by the most intimate ties of laws, of manners, and of language.
— 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

Some of them, however, are more satisfactorily created by the action of protons, deuterons, or other subatomic particles that have been given high velocities in a cyclotron or similar accelerator.
— from Radioisotopes in Medicine by Earl W. Phelan

So we gained a personal view of all this activity of strife, and from many men in its whirlpool details of their own adventure and of general progress or disaster on one sector of the battle-front.
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

It has pleased Fate to try us sorely, like the Templars of other days: we have been deprived of our ships, our castles, and our possessions, of all but our name and glory; yet I trust there is a time to come when once more the banner of
— from Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp; or, A Campaign in Calabria, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

I believe he meant them for Myrtle,—the first and last letter of her name, you see, “M” and “e.” Your letter was a dear one, only so short!
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And yet during this intermediate period, when there was no unratified treaty extant, the same belligerent intervention has been proceeding, the same war-ships have been girdling the island with their guns, and the same naval support has been continued to the usurper Baez,—all at great cost to the country and by the diversion of our naval forces from other places of duty, while the Constitution has been dismissed out of sight like a discharged soldier.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

When mid the scud you see the Cornish lights, And through the mist you hear faint Devon chimes, Thank God for memories of those other nights And days on other ships in happier times.
— from Great Poems of the World War by William Dunseath Eaton

He said that the Pamazi rises in a range of mountains we can now see (in general we could see no high ground during our marches for the last fortnight), we forded it, thigh deep on one side and breast deep on the other.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

though,' exclaimed I, jumping upon the carronade to look out, 'those brutes are swimming after the deer, and the stream is bringing them down on our stern!'
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

The theory that the keeping holy of one day out of seven is the essence of the Fourth Commandment reconciled people to the fact that the Jewish Sabbath was the seventh day and Sunday the first.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck