But, when the latter [Valancourt] learned, that she was really to set out in a very few days, and that it was designed he should see her no more, forgetting every consideration of prudence, he dared, in a second letter to Emily, to propose a clandestine marriage.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The roof, for example, can only press the earth through columns, the arch must support itself, and can only satisfy its tendency towards the earth through the medium of the pillars, and so forth.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The yet more emphatic change of places between him and Henchard which this election had established renewed a slight embarrassment in the manner of the modest young man; but Henchard showed the front of one who had overlooked all this; and Farfrae met his amenities half-way at once.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

esh of the victim is parallel to the European customs of pouring water on the personal representative of the corn-spirit or plunging him into a stream.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It probably had its name from Campania, of which it was the capital, and which was so called from its extensive campi or plains.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In a single State, the requisite knowledge relates to the existing laws which are uniform throughout the State, and with which all the citizens are more or less conversant; and to the general affairs of the State, which lie within a small compass, are not very diversified, and occupy much of the attention and conversation of every class of people.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Eight columns of porphyry, which Aurelian had placed in the temple of the sun, were offered by the piety of a Roman matron; eight others of green marble were presented by the ambitious zeal of the magistrates of Ephesus: both are admirable by their size and beauty, but every order of architecture disclaims their fantastic capital.
— 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

Humane, are those Punishments that be inflicted by the Commandement of Man; and are either Corporall, or Pecuniary, or Ignominy, or Imprisonment, or Exile, or mixt of these.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But still I believe myself to be obliged to explain concerning one point of this false science, so that none may judge me to be more ignorant than I really am.
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

I dwell thus at length upon the aristocratic elegance of De Quincey's earliest surroundings, (which, coming at a later period, I should notice merely as an accident,) because, although not a potential element, capable of producing or of adding one single iota to the essential character of genius, it is yet a negative condition—a sine qua non —to the displays of genius in certain directions and under certain aspects.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Athenæos and Plutarch quote one Callixenos of Rhodes, and Pliny quotes one Philostephanos of Cyrene, but very little is known about either Callixenos or Philostephanos.
— from Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir

Andermatt, in the midst of the doctors, was relating the extraordinary case of Père Clovis, whose legs were beginning to come to life again.
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

The threat was soon fulfilled; the evening came on, prematurely darkened by clouds that seemed surcharged with a deluge.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

It is one which occurs to us to be of paramount importance, as far as the tempering of justice with mercy is involved: we have suffered grievously from the existence of the evil to which we point; and although at this time of the year its effects are of course not so heavily felt as in the winter season, we have [447] considered it a duty we owe to this court, to our fellow-countrymen, and, we may say, to every man intimately or remotely connected with the administration of criminal justice, spread as they may be over the whole surface of the globe, to state that the chimney in the grand jury-room smokes so much and so continually, that it is impossible to endure its effects calmly or patiently; and we therefore think it right to bring the matter thus formally before your lordship, and to desire that measures may be taken to abate a nuisance which, by its effects, is calculated to thwart, impede, and even distort the course of justice, and produce evils, the magnitude of which it is scarcely possible to imagine, and certainly not to express."
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

All the strophes change the melody at each change of personages.
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Beverly M. Eaton (C of Paul McKee), Paul E. Harrison (E of a. Lucile Harrison), The First National Bank of Greeley (E of Annie McCowen) & Elizabeth Lehr (A); 3Oct77; R673496.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Dr. Notestein [2] thinks that there are some traces of it, which cannot however be certainly proved, except in one particular instance towards the end of the reign of James I, though this was for the exceptional crime of practising sorcery (and therefore high treason) against that too credulous king.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

Gorgo remembered the hour in which she had, in fact, proffered to the man of her choice as a free gift, the love which, by every canon of propriety, she ought only to have granted to his urgent wooing.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers