Beyond the Elbe, the Slavi , or Sclavonians, of similar manners and various denominations, overspread the modern dominions of Prussia, Poland, and Bohemia, and some transient marks of obedience have tempted the French historian to extend the empire to the Baltic and the Vistula.
— 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

Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare copies of every sort.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy-piggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst—Heaven bless the mark!
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

107 Density of population per acre in 1880, New York City 48.4 Density of population per acre in 1880, Manhattan Island 92.6 Density of population per acre in 1880, Tenth Ward 432.3 Density of population per acre in 1880, Eleventh Ward 350.9 Density of population per acre in 1880, Thirteenth Ward
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

When he and his party were driven out, Perikles passed a decree that six hundred Athenian volunteers should sail to Sinope, and become citizens there, receiving the houses and lands which had formerly been in the possession of the despot and his party.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Owing to his buoyancy a diver has little depressing or pushing power, and he cannot bore a hole in a post with an auger unless he is able to rest his back against some firm object, or is [Pg 339] roped to the post.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

the Diaries of Paul Petroni and Stephen Infessura are the best original evidence for the revolt of the Romans against Eugenius IV.
— 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 home to dinner, and had an excellent Good Friday dinner of peas porridge and apple pye.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But it is certainly worth mention that Benedict Goëz, too, speaks of the desert of 'Pamech' (Pamir) as taking forty days to cross if the snow was extensive, a record already noted by Sir H. Yule ( Cathay , II.,
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Then came days of positive pain, and nights of delirious, dreary murmuring about home and all of us, more especially Ellen Fordyce.
— from Chantry House by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

‘The essential point of spiritism is indeed, we believe, the disaggregation of psychological phenomena, and the formation beyond the personal perception of a second series of thoughts detached from the first.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

Proceedings under the Official Secrets Acts were taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and in six cases sentences were passed varying from eighteen months to six years' penal servitude.
— from Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents by Hamil Grant

Henry donated the windows and he had Diana of Poitiers pictured among the righteous souls in the fifth seal of the Apocalypse.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Quill pens are undoubtedly useful in drawing a few types of letters (see some of the designs by Mr. Walter Crane shown in previous pages, for examples) but, not to allude to the difficulty of properly pointing a quill, which seems to be a well-nigh lost art nowadays, the instrument possesses so many annoying peculiarities that it is as well to avoid its use until a satisfactory command over the more dependable steel pens has been obtained.
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

This seems to be a daily or periodical practice and point of duty with them.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The dean of Peterborough protested against the irregularities of the lower house.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It is assumed that the reader has already mastered the technical difficulties of photographic practice and is able to make a good negative or print.
— from Photographic Amusements, Ninth Edition Including A Description of a Number of Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera by Walter E. Woodbury