Note 29 ( return ) [ The Mogul emir distinguishes himself and his countrymen by the name of Turks , and stigmatizes the race and nation of Bajazet with the less honorable epithet of Turkmans .
— 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

But it would not be appreciated till the broad lines of the plan, on which everything depends, has first been marked out.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

ti pot' oun en men tê gastri nyktos || 165 holês pollakis meinanta ton arton eti phylattesthai boulontai tas archaias diasôzonta poiotêtas, epeidan d' hapax empesê Pg 256 Greek text tois enterois, euthys gignesthai kopron?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The defendant could either defend himself, or entrust his case to an advocate whom he brought with him.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

As soon as she recovered consciousness she begged that steps be taken immediately to keep the occurrence from the Associated Press, as she feared that, on account of her mother's extremely delicate health, the shock and anxiety would prove fatal.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

From him Malambruno stole him by his magic art, and he has him now in his possession, and makes use of him in his journeys which he constantly makes through different parts of the world; he is here to-day, to-morrow in France, and the next day in Potosi; and the best of it is the said horse neither eats nor sleeps nor wears out shoes, and goes at an ambling pace through the air without wings, so that he whom he has mounted upon him can carry a cup full of water in his hand without spilling a drop, so smoothly and easily does he go, for which reason the fair Magalona enjoyed riding him greatly."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ridiculous, I told him, was a term which he would find no one else do him the favour to make use of, in speaking of the horrible actions belonging to the old story he made so light of; ?actions’ continued I, ‘which would dye still deeper the black annals of Nero or Caligula.’
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Now there was present at court a certain knight, Sir William Dale, as gallant a soldier as ever donned harness.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

It is difficult to believe that in those very earliest days he had the vision of a department store.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

Seated in his great oaken hall, with its heavy roof timbers, at the close of each day he drank deep draughts with his guests and his numerous servants, in the flaring light of odorous resin torches stuck in iron staples along the walls.
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

A voice issued from one of the slits in the scarlet envelope, deep, harsh, threatening, addressing me as if presenting a pistol at my head, and demanding my money or my life.
— from Under One Flag by Richard Marsh

But each day he heard that the Baron had stayed on.
— from Little Erik of Sweden by Madeline Brandeis

One instance of bravery, worth recording here, is that of a piper of the 71st, who, though his thigh was shattered by a musket shot, played on bravely, sitting on his knapsack, exclaiming, “Deil hae me, lads, if ye shall want music!”
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

"Everything, daughter," he replied.
— from The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope

It is true that thereupon he expressly distinguishes his own case from the child’s, attributing the difficulty in her case to ‘animal vivacity.’
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Even Dr. Holmes, John Whittier, Henry W. Longfellow, John Lothrop Motley, George William Curtis, and General Burnside were persuaded to appear one or more times, although they refused to receive pay.
— from Getting at the Inner Man, and, Fifty Years on the Lecture Platform by Robert Shackleton