The whole with its own splendour; but the sun's Warm exhalations and this serene light Travel not down an empty void; and thus They are compelled more slowly to advance, Whilst, as it were, they cleave the waves of air; Nor one by one travel these particles Of the warm exhalations, but are all Entangled and enmassed, whereby at once Each is restrained by each, and from without Checked, till compelled more slowly to advance.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

She noticed his expression, and as if to punish him for it went on to say that I had now the admiration of every Venetian, and that the French were anxious to have the honour of calling me a fellow-citizen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Edward VI. altered the title of Ireland King of Arms into that of Ulster, or rather considered it as a new institution, from the words of his journal: "Feb. 2.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The 1st of January, 1869, was signalized by a storm of extreme violence, and the thunder burst several times over the island.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

At the corner he too turned and for the last time their eyes met; but noticing that she was looking at him, he motioned her away with impatience and even vexation, and turned the corner abruptly.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The liberal minority, while they want the students to settle down to school work, think that the students’ experiences will have been of great educational value and that they will come back with a new social viewpoint, and the teaching ought to be changed—and also the methods of school discipline—to meet the new situation.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

" I explained to her that we must walk a little further to get to a cab-stand, unless we were fortunate enough to meet with an empty vehicle; and then tried to resume the subject of Cumberland.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

His weekly revenue is certainly not equal both to the guinea and to what can be purchased with it, but only to one or other of those two equal values, and to the latter more properly than to the former, to the guinea's worth rather than to the guinea.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Luchon was well-known to the Romans, as the number of ex voto altars to the god Ilixion that have been found go to 232 prove.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Hadrian's advanced age made it clear that there would be an early vacancy: and to this Wolsey now directed his hopes.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

Edward VI ascended the throne in 1547, and barely had the interior of the chapel of King’s Hall been adapted to the needs of the new foundation than the College was required to remove all popish traces from it.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

the complement of each vessel, agreeable to the Admiralty order, by which you will perceive that, after each complement is complete, there will remain 97 seamen over and above.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

With eighty votes against twenty-two the conference decided to send representatives into a coalition government under the following conditions: 1.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

and I believe his heart’s really in the Cause, as you call it; but you know, my dear, he’s very far from being sound in his economical views as to the relations of capital and labour.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen