Advancing with a steady and rapid course, he passed, without difficulty, the defiles of the Apennine, received into his party the troops and ambassadors sent to retard his progress, and made a short halt at Interamnia, about seventy miles from Rome.
— 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

According to the second biography, Hatan's dwelling (on the Amur River) was destroyed, and he disappeared.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

These, too, and the earlier years of Charles were the days of the Apollo Room of the Devil Tavern where Jonson presided, the absolute monarch of English literary Bohemia.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

At precisely twenty minutes before eight o’clock that night, Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esq., the Master of the Ceremonies, emerged from his chariot at the door of the Assembly Rooms in the same wig, the same teeth, the same eye-glass, the same watch and seals, the same rings, the same shirt-pin, and the same cane.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

* Note: It is scarcely necessary to mention the valuable work of Count Daru, "History de Venise," of which I hear that an Italian translation has been published, with Bnotes defensive of the ancient republic.
— 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

] VARESE (Emilio Memmi, Prince of), of the Cane-Memmis, born in 1797, a member of the greater nobility, descendant of the ancient Roman family of Memmius, received the name of Prince of Varese on the death of Facino Cane, his relative.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

A hope that the visitation of the present year would prove the last, kept up the spirits of the merchants connected with these countries; but the inhabitants were driven to despair, or to a resignation which, arising from fanaticism, assumed the same dark hue.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Thora, the daughter of Thorberg, also remained behind; but he took with him Queen Ellisif and her two daughters, Maria and Ingegerd.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In talking of the Katipunan one must distinguish the first society, limited in its membership, from the organization of the days of the Aguinaldo “republic,” so called, when throughout the Tagalog provinces, and in the chief towns of other provinces as well, adherence to the revolutionary government entailed membership in the revolutionary society.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. COLORADO.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Just at the moment that his lips parted to avenge the honor of Mrs. Thrale, the door opened to admit Ralph.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon

Doubtless Niebuhr, in his valuable discussion of the ancient Roman gentes, is right in supposing that they were not real families, procreated from any common his [Pg 233] torical ancestor.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

He finds further striking analogies between the Gothonic and the Armenian sound systems; the predilection for voiceless stops and aspirated sounds in Etruscan, in the domain of the ancient Rhætians and in Asia Minor is accordingly ascribed to the speech habits of one and the same aboriginal race.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Such an order at such a moment was particularly exasperating, and led to many little tussles with citizens, who refused to consider this a pleasant opening to the era of liberty, an exasperation very considerably increased at the different exits from the square by an uncompromising search into the contents of pockets, and a consequent disgorging of trophies and remembrances.
— from The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)

Their stock, consisting chiefly of oxen, were driven off to a range some distance from the camp, to feed for the night.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

It was, in fact, a whole series of anatomical lectures crowded into one, and that one so divested of technicalities, and rendered so concise, so intelligible to the most illiterate mind, and withal couched in such delicate as well as perspicuous language, that the most fastidious could find no fault, nor the idlest curiosity go away uninformed.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

My draft of their advice runs in part as follows: The Spirit of Nelson, on being questioned on the submarine problem, holds that if all the men on the submarines were where he is everything would be bright and happy.
— from Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

26 But even Peisistratus has not been suffered to remain in possession of the credit, and we cannot help feeling the force of the following observations— "There are several incidental circumstances which, in our opinion, throw some suspicion over the whole history of the Peisistratid compilation, at least over the theory, that the Iliad was cast into its present stately and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In the spawning season the oysters which have been deposited on the artificial rocks discharge the myriads of young fry which have been nurtured in the folds of their mantles.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier