The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, To tell him his commandment is fulfill’d, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

96 After a ruinous delay, which introduced into the camp the seeds of an epidemic disease, the Franks advanced from the sea-coast towards the capital of Egypt, and strove to surmount the unseasonable inundation of the Nile, which opposed their progress.
— 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

On this Clara, afraid that Luscinda might overhear her, winding her arms tightly round Dorothea put her mouth so close to her ear that she could speak without fear of being heard by anyone else, and said: "This singer, dear senora, is the son of a gentleman of Aragon, lord of two villages, who lives opposite my father's house at Madrid; and though my father had curtains to the windows of his house in winter, and lattice-work in summer, in some way—I know not how—this gentleman, who was pursuing his studies, saw me, whether in church or elsewhere, I cannot tell, and, in fact, fell in love with me, and gave me to know it from the windows of his house, with so many signs and tears that I was forced to believe him, and even to love him, without knowing what it was he wanted of me.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Boldwood had already twitched the handkerchief, and the gun exploded a second time, sending its contents, by a timely blow from Samway, into the beam which crossed the ceiling.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He saw her to the elevator and, standing there, said: “When do I see you again?”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

where An. Dom. 1542, they acted such Horrid and Stupendous Enormities, that the like were never known or heard in America , or throughout the whole World before that time: Nor were they only practised upon the Indians , who were mostly destroy'd, but upon themselves also, God permitting them by his just Judgement to be their own Executioners, and sheath their Swords in one anothers Bowels.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

As I finished reading I raised my eyes and saw the same maid-servant standing in the doorway holding a glass dish in which two gold-fish were swimming: "Put them back into the tank and tell me what you mean by interrupting me," I said.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

With equal truth it is said that England was saved at Trafalgar, though the Emperor had then given up his intended invasion; the destruction there emphasized and sealed the strategic triumph which had noiselessly foiled Napoleon's plans.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Blinded by the smoke of so much firing, they nevertheless kept their faces toward the enemy and sought to see him.
— from The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Deeper than ever the Andante dived,— So write a book shall mean, beyond the facts, Suffice the eye and save the soul beside.
— from The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson

" Even as she talked she swiveled the drum around, kicked the easy-off plug, and began dumping the gelid contents into the hole.
— from Deathworld by Harry Harrison

Scarce were his feet well off the ground when he experienced a shock that sent him sprawling back upon it, a concussion of such violence as for a time to deprive him of his senses.
— from The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

Tecuhltli himself built this secret entrance, afterward slaying the slaves who did the work; for he feared that he might find himself locked out of his own kingdom some day because of the spite of Tascela, whose passion for him soon changed to hate.
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

—The native hunters in most wild countries follow their game by watching for tracks on the ground, and they become so expert at seeing the slightest sign of a footmark on the ground that they can follow up their prey when an ordinary civilized man can see no sign whatever.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

To every American out there on Social Security, to every, every American supporting that system today, and to everyone counting on it when they retire, we made a promise to you, and we are going to keep it.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George Bush

The annals of the American revolution do not furnish two names more entirely above suspicion than Samuel Adams and Richard Henry Lee.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The second time, I did not speak about the commanding general of the army but about the High Command of the army at Simferopol, because I cannot say, with any certainty, who had requested the competent Einsatzkommando at Simferopol to speed up the liquidations.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

Deeper than ever e'en Beethoven dived,— So write a book shall mean beyond the facts, Suffice the eye and save the soul beside.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount