In the second rank that amiable prince soon acquired the affections of the public, and excited the tyrant's jealousy, who resolved to terminate the dangerous competition, either by corrupting the manners, or by taking away the life, of his rival.
— 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

It was a sad transformation, too, that her rich and luxuriant hair had either been cut off, or was so completely hidden by a cap, that not a shining lock of it ever once gushed into the sunshine.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

, 576 Toms, G.W., 513 Tone, Isaac E., 509 Tone, Jay E., 508 , 509 Tone, Jekiel, 509 Tone, W.E., 509 , 510 , 511 Tone Bros., 509 Tonkin c., 352 , 370 Tonti, Lorenzo, 122 Torner, Richard, chk. , 572 Torro & Co., Louis M., 340 Totten & Bro., W.W., 508 Touches, Vicomte des, 532 , 534 Tovars (c.), 349 , 350 , 365 Town Eclogues , Montagu, 573 Townsend, 496 Tractors, electric (Bush Co.), 322 Tracy & Avery Co., 485 Trade New Orleans, 485–487 Overproduction disturbs (1898), 471 San Francisco, 487–491 Shifting currents, 293
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

At the noise I made my grandmother hastened to my room, and amidst my brother’s laughter the kind old woman assured me that the priest would never have been allowed to enter my room if she could have foreseen his intention, and she managed to soothe my passion to some extent by confessing that he had over-stepped the limits of his right to administer a reproof.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Now as these different shocks, and variations, and mixtures are the only changes, of which matter is susceptible, and as these never afford us any idea of thought or perception, it is concluded to be impossible, that thought can ever be caused by matter.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted, and whence, for many years, he had never ventured forth—in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated—an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit—an effect which the physique of the gray walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about upon the morale of his existence.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Each brigade commander should have the same staff, with the addition of a couple of young aides-de-camp, habitually selected from the subalterns of the brigade, who should be good riders, and intelligent enough to give and explain the orders of their general.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Throughout the world, the greeting of a friend is expressed by contact, whether it be nose-rubbing, or the kiss, the embrace, or the clasp of hands; so the ordinary expression of friendship by a boy, that eternal savage, is contact of arm and shoulder.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But when forbearance confounds right and wrong, it ceases to be a virtue; and, however convenient it may be found in a companion, that companion will ever be considered as an inferior, and only inspire a vapid tenderness, which easily degenerates into contempt.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

But Watts was obdurate, and the man soon left the shop, eying Barclay closely.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

In these views they were assisted by various despots and traitors in the Grecian cities, and especially by Callicrates, a man of great influence among the Achæans, who for many years had lent himself as the base tool of the Romans.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith

The French have, with much Industry, settled small Colonies, and built stockaded Forts at all the considerable Passes between the Lakes, except between Cataracui Lake (called by the French Ontario ) and Lake Erie , one of our Five Nations of Indians , whom we call Sennekas , (and the French Sonontouans ) having hitherto refused them leave to erect any Buildings there.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

Malcolm read remarkably well for a boy of his age, and he always enjoyed being called upon in this way.
— from Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church

If he could find something else besides clams and biscuit, the tedium of his existence here would be alleviated to a still greater degree.
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

And the Buboes, Carbuncles, &c. in a Pestilence , are nothing else but Collections of Particles, or 276.png 270 Coalescences, formed in such irregular Motions, and thrown out of the Course of Circulation by those necessary Laws whereby every Thing is rejected, that cannot be assimilated into homogeneous and like Properties: The Matter of which Excretions is likewise of so subtile and fermenting a Nature, that if introduced into the Fluids of another well Person, it excites there the same Motion and Disorder.
— from Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion by John Quincy

Eagerly both craned their necks forward over the bowl and gazed intently into the clear black fluid.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur

There was a Lion red, a wooer daring, Within the Lily's tepid bath espoused, And both, tormented then by flame unsparing, By turns in either bridal chamber housed.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Then, with a fainter cry, she reeled and fell, backward and down, and, while the mighty vision faded from her mortal eyes, Belshazzar caught her lifeless body in his arms.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

Quite certain at least is it that not the faintest additional probability is established by Cod. L that S. Mark's Gospel when it left the hands of its inspired Author was in a mutilated condition.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon