When he saw Dorothy and her companions the man asked, "What do you wish in the Emerald City?" "We came here to see the Great Oz," said Dorothy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Siborne immortalises the name of this officer, in his history of the battle of Quatre Bras, as follows:—“A French lancer gallantly charged at the colours of the 44th, and severely wounded Ensign Christie, who carried one of them, by a thrust of his lance, which, entering the left eye, penetrated to the lower jaw.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

But we may be assured, from the evidence of reason as well as history, that the two marriages of Valentinian, with Severa, and with Justina, were successively contracted; and that he used the ancient permission of divorce, which was still allowed by the laws, though it was condemned by the church Severa was the mother of Gratian, who seemed to unite every claim which could entitle him to the undoubted succession of the Western empire.
— 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

English literature of the eighteenth century was characterized by the development of prose.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The next evening Carrie was called out, much as if for an error.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The fame of her beauty began to spread abroad through all the villages around—but why do I say the villages around, merely, when it spread to distant cities, and even made its way into the halls of royalty and reached the ears of people of every class, who came from all sides to see her as if to see something rare and curious, or some wonder-working image?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sugar was originally an enumerated commodity, which could only be exported to Great Britain; but in 1751, upon a representation of the sugar-planters, its exportation was permitted to all parts of the world.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Episcopal churches were closely planted along the banks of the Nile, on the sea-coast of Africa, in the proconsular Asia, and through the southern provinces of Italy.
— 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

What exactly can we count upon you for, Mr. Carter?”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The business of toddy-tapping involves expert climbing, while carrying a considerable paraphernalia, with no adventitious aid other than can be got out of a soft grummet of coir to keep the feet near together, while the hands, with the arms extended, grasp the palm tree.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It may well be supposed that the ambiguity of the covenant was not very palpable; since the Scots presbyterians, a people not easily cozened, were content with its expression.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

His eventful career was closed on the 13th of July, 1785, after enduring the course of a slow and lingering fever with the same calm fortitude that had marked his whole life.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

The floors boast for carpet nothing but earth covered with clean sand, daily renewed.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir

Each festival is an anniversary, and in the early church was celebrated with rites, chants and ornaments corresponding to its origin.
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

His weekly engagements at the Tabernacle in Tottenham-court Road, which was built for him when the pulpits of the Established Church were closed, were as follows:—Every Sunday morning he administered the Lord's Supper to several hundred communicants, at half-past six.
— from A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

It was only thirteen feet square, destitute of every convenience, without chairs, beds, or anything of the kind.
— from Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger

From the “Panteón,” a bit of clearing in the jungle, with blackened wooden crosses tied together with jungle creepers standing over the graves of former residents of El Cerro, we caught a short-cut through somewhat thinner forest to the scattered hamlet of Motococito, so named from the motocú with which the roofs are thatched.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Of course, as to what would happen in a workers' republic, were it ever constituted, we can only speculate; but where we cannot know, there hope has an equal chance with fear.
— from The Principles of Aesthetics by De Witt H. (De Witt Henry) Parker

Eight corporals were called out of the ranks and shot then and there in the presence of the regiment, which was again ordered to advance, and a threat made that a refusal would mean death to all.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

It was laughable, ridiculous, but very wonderful after all, to see Johnnie there, giving commands in his quaint English, commands which could not be understood by a single one of the miners.
— from With Wolseley to Kumasi: A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton