La terre Française reçoit les dépouilles mortelles de l'Amiral Britannique qui employa longtems contre elle ses talens et son courage, qui depuis a consacré 25 années à servir, au milieu des Français et avec leur co-opération, la cause sacrée de l'humanité et celle du malheur.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

"O comme elles sont tristes et sauvages, ces collines!
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

As estimated by an English standard, the extremely small circulation would have rendered them wholly innocuous; but such was not the case in the actual state of affairs.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

Ever seeking to establish spiritual comradeship with the animal creation, the Indian adopted this or that animal as his “totem,” the emblematic device of his society, family, or clan.
— from The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation by Charles Alexander Eastman

But the gun survives only a hundred explosions, so that every shot costs $1,000.
— from The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis

It falls into three divisions: two courts, B and C , with their living-rooms on the east side; two exactly similar courts, G and H , on the west side; a central court with a group of chambers to the south of it, and further south a small court, E , with rooms on three sides of it, and a subsidiary court, D , further east.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

It need hardly be said that historical and commemorative glass are very widely imitated, the commonest and most plausible of the various forms of deception adopted being, as elsewhere suggested, to engrave some comparatively valueless specimen of real old glass with figures exactly imitating the genuine thing, and so giving it a fictitious value.
— from Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis