On the last day of December, 1864, Captain Breese, United States Navy, flag-officer to Admiral Porter, reached Savannah, bringing the first news of General Butler's failure at Fort Fisher, and that the general had returned to James River with his land-forces, leaving Admiral Porter's fleet anchored off Cape Fear, in that tempestuous season.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But later, Doctor Manuel Xeres Burgos, a nephew of the ill-fated Padre Burgos, spoke in my favor; and Father Fernando admitted me.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

These alone, who had nothing to lose, might derive some profit from the revolution; but the misery of the upper ranks of society is strongly painted in the personal adventures of Nicetas himself His stately palace had been reduced to ashes in the second conflagration; and the senator, with his family and friends, found an obscure shelter in another house which he possessed near the church of St. Sophia.
— 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

An altruistic attitude of mind, when it is fundamental and free from all hypocrisy, is the instinct of creating a second value for one's self in the service of other egoists.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is again warmth and mellowness: feeling and fellow feeling acquire depth, lambent airs stir all about him.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My state was one of suspense and watchfulness ; yet I had no expectation of meeting with an adventure, and felt as free from apprehension as I feel now when sitting in a room in London.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy Seal Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Fifteen amendments of the Constitution have been made at different times since 1789, the most important of which are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth, framed and ratified after the Civil War.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

35 Proue me but for a fortnight, for a weeke, And lend mee but a Vice , to carry with mee, To practice there-with any play-fellow, And, you will ſee, there will come more vpon’t, Then you’ll imagine, pretious Chiefe .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

My poor papa and Eddy’s father made their agreement together, as very dear and firm and fast friends, in order that we, too, might be very dear and firm and fast friends after them?’
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

For a time, Aniwa was left without any witness for Jesus,—the London Missionary Society Teachers, having suffered dreadfully for lack of food and from fever and ague, being also removed.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton

That idea of Brigit's, about Monny being mistaken for Esmé O'Brien by members of the Organization O'Brien betrayed, had seemed foolish and far fetched, although Esmé was hidden from her father's enemies near Monaco, and it was at Monaco that Miss Gilder and Rachel Guest and Mrs. East had joined Brigit on the Laconia .
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

“Faith brought to us and set before us food, a fish from a divine fount, great and clean, which the holy maiden took in her hand and gave it to her friends, that they should always eat thereof, holding goodly wine, giving with bread a mingled drink.”
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

The same thing is next done for masculine and feminine, and, finally, for all four forms at once.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

Not heeding this measure the little town held its festa , almost forgetting for a while, in the enjoyment of the moment, her long period of slavery.
— from Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

You expect a man to be all broken up about the sunset, and not to care a dime for a place where fortunes are fought for and made and lost all day; or for a career that consists in studying up life till you have it at your finger-ends, spying out every cranny where you can get your hand in and a dollar out, and standing there in the midst—one foot on bankruptcy, the other on a borrowed dollar, and the whole thing spinning round you like a mill—raking in the stamps, in spite of fate and fortune.”
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

For surely I could never find anything for Frank and Uncle Charlie better than these queer little desk things.
— from Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells

Just to mention a few: A girl scout may be an artist, a beekeeper, a business woman, a craftsman, or a dancer; an electrician, a farmer, a flower finder, a horsewoman, an interpreter, a motorist; or a musician, a scribe, a swimmer, or a star gazer.
— from Educational Work of the Girl Scouts by Louise Stevens Bryant