A French brig was instructed to decoy the English by manoeuvring so as to tempt them toward a shoal lying off the island of Bekier; but Nelson either knew the danger or suspected some deceit; and the lure was unsuccessful.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

A formal invitation, in the name of the patriarch, the synod, and the senate, was circulated through the streets of Constantinople; and the general assembly, in the dome of St. Sophia, debated, with order and calmness, on the choice of their sovereign.
— 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

caractère , m. , nature; figure dont on se sert dans l'écriture; lettre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

There is something incomprehensible in the statement that a luminous disc of such slight dimensions could illuminate the world: yet for centuries men never thought of resolving this contradiction.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We looked in at the dark old staircase, so dark on that night when "the lamps were blown out, and the lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering," then went on to take a peep, half shuddering ourselves, at the narrow street where "Pip" by and by found a lodging for the convict.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

We must deepen our thinkings of man, and bore for the springs of liberty far below the drainings of surface strata, down deep, Artesian, till we strike something that shall be beyond winter or summer, frost or drouth.
— from Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City by Henry Ward Beecher

'Guarded by depths of sin,' said Dr. Arthur.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

“Ah, now we enter the domain of State secrets, Davie, and there is where a king has an advantage over the commoner.
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

A French brig was instructed to decoy the English, by manœuvring so as to tempt them toward a shoal lying off the island of Bekier; but Nelson either knew the danger or suspected some deceit, and the lure was unsuccessful.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

When the dishes were disposed of, she sat down by Ellen, an invitation to confidence in her one-sided glance.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

To dream of seeing sores, denotes that illness will cause you loss and mental distress.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller