The execution of the bloody deed was committed to the subtle prudence of Count Trajan; and he had the merit of insinuating himself into the confidence of the credulous prince, that he might find an opportunity of stabbing him to the heart Para was invited to a Roman banquet, which had been prepared with all the pomp and sensuality of the East; the hall resounded with cheerful music, and the company was already heated with wine; when the count retired for an instant, drew his sword, and gave the signal of the murder.
— 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

I understand you, he replied; not perfectly, for you seem to me to be describing a task which is really tremendous; but, at any rate, I understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic contemplates, are clearer than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which proceed from hypotheses only: these are also contemplated by the understanding, and not by the senses: yet, because they start from hypotheses and do not ascend to a principle, those who contemplate them appear to you not to exercise the higher reason upon them, although when a first principle is added to them they are cognizable by the higher reason.
— from The Republic by Plato

But I think I should in a few days earn the hundred rupees.' 'By what road?' Kim shook his head resolutely.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

But he will disgust me no longer—it is enough to have read a few of the Archdeacon's pages."
— from Candide by Voltaire

Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. lêgibus , § 501. 14 . 4. eî , to her , referring to Juno. 5.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He was delivered from the burthen of that death; and, when Death came himself, not in metaphor, to fetch Dicky, it is recorded of him by Robert Palmer, who kindly watched his exit, that he received the last stroke, neither varying his accustomed tranquillity, nor tune, with the simple exclamation, worthy to have been recorded in his epitaph— O La!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

[Clark, June 15, 1805] June the 15th Satturday 1805 a fair morning and worm, we Set out at the usial time and proceeded on with great dificuelty as the river is more rapid we can hear the falls this morning verry distinctly—our Indian woman Sick &low Spirited I gave her the bark & apply it exteranaly to her region which revived her much.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

By seeping through its frame, and all the more Those many particles of heat and air Escaping, began to fly aloft, and form, By condensation there afar from earth, The high refulgent circuits of the heavens.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

To pay for, personate, and keep in a Man's Hands, a greater Estate than he really has, is of all others the most unpardonable Vanity, and must in the End reduce the Man who is guilty of it to Dishonour.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Every Thursday he ran this to and from Gool-Gool for the purpose of taking to market vegetables and other farm produce.
— from My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

We followed the lines that first day till we came to a steam train, and I found the engine fairly good, and everything necessary to move it at my hand: but the metals in such a condition of twisted, broken, vaulted, and buried confusion, due to the earthquake, that, having run some hundreds of yards to examine them, I saw that nothing could be done in that way.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

From this habitation extends the high road by which the proprietor [Pg 67] reaches the opposite end of the encampment; the galleries open into this road, which the Mole is continually carrying out and extending in his search for food; this has been termed the hunting-ground .
— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

His eldest son, James, was in India, doing well, and had often sent a contribution towards the comfort of the family, and especially to help Reginald at College.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The dining-tables of this period, before the days of the extension table, had round, square, or octagonal tops, supported on a column which rested on a plinth having several carved feet.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore

These he contrived to explain to his readers, by annexing to his volume for 1738, feigned proposals for printing a work, to be called Anagrammata Rediviva.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

Wherever the coast line appears, from other evidence, to have remained unchanged in outline and elevation since they were accumulated, they are found near the sea, and not more than about ten feet above its level.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

Then the memory recurred of the man who had passed [Pg 151] him at the door—the man who, he suspected, had forced an entrance to his rooms....
— from The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance

The bishops of this reign do not appear, with some distinguished 211 exceptions, to have reflected so much honour on the established church as those who attach a superstitious reverence to the age of the reformation are apt to conceive.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam