The innocent victims, who yet survived, were recalled from exile, released from prison, and restored to the full possession of their honors and fortunes.
— 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

In the list below, for example, rime for rhyme is the only allowable variation; all the other forms are co-extensive with the English language.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

The knowledge which introduced scepticism is infinitely more [ Pg 2] valuable than the faith it displaced; but, in spite of that, there be few among us who have not felt evanescent regrets for the displacement by the foi scientifique of the old faith in fairies.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

In Mr. Chewett's MS. Journal, we have, under date of Quebec, April 22, 1792, the following entry: "Received from Gov. Simcoe a Plan of Points Henry and Frederick, to have a title page put to them: also a plan of the Town and township of Toronto, and to know whether it was ever laid out."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Observing Mr. Wright's travel diary, Mr. Desai opened a page and wrote on it a list of Satyagraha 44-2 vows taken by all the Mahatma's strict followers ( satyagrahis ): "Nonviolence; Truth; Non-Stealing; Celibacy; Non-Possession; Body- Labor; Control of the Palate; Fearlessness; Equal Respect for all Religions; Swadeshi (use of home manufactures); Freedom from Untouchability.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

10 Deo fidelis et regi —Faithful to God and the king.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

[11] She sympathized fully with the demand for equal rights for women, but was not yet quite convinced that these included the suffrage.
— 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

Then, too, my father is not a person whose orders may be infringed with impunity; protected as he is by his high position and firmly established reputation for talent and unswerving integrity, no one could oppose him; he is all-powerful even with the king; he would crush you at a word.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Fehlbetrag deficiency Fehlbuchung erroneous entry Fehldruck misprint Fehlen der Vollmacht absence of authority fehlendes Gewicht deficiency in weight Fehlentscheidung wrong decision Fehler mistake Fehler bei der Übersetzung errors in the translation Fehler finden locate errors Fehler; Fabrikationsfehler flaw Fehler; Mangel defect Fehler; Verschulden fault Fehleranalyse error analysis Fehlerbereich error range Fehlerbeseitigung elimination of error Fehlererkennung error detection fehlerhaft defective fehlerhaft faulty fehlerhafte Verpackung faulty packing fehlerhafte Verpackung; mangelhafte; falsche faulty packing fehlerhafter Vertrag defective contract Fehlerhaftigkeit faultiness Fehlerhaftigkeit; Mangelhaftigkeit faultiness Fehlerkorrektur error correction Fehlerkurve error curve Fehlerrate error rate Fehlerspielraum margin of error Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit error probability Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit probability of error Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit; Fehlerbereich error margin fehlgeleitet misguided Fehlinformation misinformation Fehlinformation; Falschinformation misinformation fehlinvestiertes Kapital misguided investment Fehlinvestition false investment Fehlkalkulation miscalculation fehlleiten misguide Fehlleitung misdirection Fehlschlag failure Fehlverhalten misdemeanour feierliche Beteuerung solemn assertion Feiertagslohn holiday pay feil halten to keep for sale feilhalten keep for sale feilschen haggle feilschen higgle Feingehalt fineness
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

First we must note that the rays A , C , a , and B , C , b , which pass through the centre of curvature of the mirror C , will fall perpendicularly on the surface, and be reflected back on themselves, so that the focus of the part a of the arrow will be somewhere on A a , and that of B on B b , and by drawing another ray we shall find it reflected to a , which will be the focus of the point A , and so also by drawing another line from B , we shall find it is reflected to b , which is the focus of the part B ; and we might repeat this process for every part of the arrow, and for every ray from those parts.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Anchoring on the 19th of July at Gibraltar, Nelson found everything ready for the re-equipment of his ships, owing to his foresight in directing it.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

They stood motionless against the white background of the snow, only their fierce eyes rolling from the speaker to their own chiefs and back again.
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

But I'll tell you what I'll do—the name of the inn is the White Horse—if I should prove wrong in fancying he is there, I will send a message to that inn to say where he may be found.” “Exactly,” returned Freddy, entering the White Horse, Carsley, in his tablets; “now I think I know all about it, and it shall not be my fault if this duel comes off to-morrow morning.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Gen. Edwin N. Clark, James F. Clay, Gen. Lucius D. Clinchy, Everett R. Coffin, Edmund Cohen, Jerome B. Collado, Emilio G. Collings, L. V. Collingwood, Charles P. Colwell, Kent G. Conant, James B. Conant, Melvin Cook, Howard A. Coombs, Charles A. Cooper, Franklin S. Cordier, Andrew W. Cousins, Norman Cowan, L. Gray Cowles, Gardner Cox, Charles R. Creel, Dana S. Cummings, Robert L., Jr. Cusick, Peter Dallin, Alexander Danner, Arthur V. Darrell, Norris Daum, Earl C. Davenport, John Davis, Norman P. Davison, W. Phillips Dean, Arthur H. Debevoise, Eli Whitney De Lima, Oscar A. De Vegh, Imrie De Vries, Henry P. Dewey, Thomas E. D'Harnoncourt, Rene Diebold, William, Jr. Dillon, Clarence Dilworth, J. Richardson Dodge, Cleveland E. Donner, Frederick G. Donovan, Hedley Dorr, Goldthwaite H. Dorwin, Oscar John Douglas, Lewis W. Douglas, Percy L. Dryfoos, Orvil E. Dubinsky, David DuBois, J. Delafield Durdin, Tillman Eagle, Vernon A. Eaton, Fredrick M. Eberstadt, Ferdinand Edelman, Albert I. Eder, Phanor J. Eichelberger, Clark M. Elliott, L. W. Emmet, Christopher Engel, Irving M. Ernst, Albert E. Erpf, Armand G. Evans, Roger F. Eveleth, George S., Jr. Ewing, Sherman Ewing, William, Jr. Exter, John Fahs, Charles B. Field, William Osgood, Jr. Fischer, John S. Fisher, Henry J. Fleck, G. Peter Fleischmann, Manly Florinsky, Michael T. Ford, Nevil Forkner, Claude E. Forrestal, Michael V. Fosdick, Raymond B. Fox, Joseph C. Fox, William T. R. Foye, Arthur B. Franklin, George S., Jr. Franklin, John M. Freedman, Emanuel R. French, John Freudenthal, David M. Friele, Berent Friendly, Henry J. Fry, Varian Fuerbringer, Otto Fuller, C. Dale Fuller, Robert G. Galantiere, Lewis Gallatin, James P. Gamble, Sidney D .
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

His income was subject to great fluctuations, as the whims of his fashionable employers ran for or against him.
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Only the happily married might safely claim him, for Gresham, with his fame as a painter of beautiful women and his almost equal reputation as a fascinating person, would not have been commended by any maiden aunt for either right feelings, nice moral sentiments or a discriminating taste for the proprieties.
— from The Beauty by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

Further economies result from the use of digesters of enormous capacity, dealing with as much as 100 tons of wood at one operation.
— from Researches on Cellulose, 1895-1900 by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross