If the name be local, as so many names of stuffs are, the French form rather suggests Bulgaria .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

‘It’s far from right that I should do it,’ said Mrs. Gummidge.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They were hoplites intended for close combat, but more lightly armed and more fit for rapid evolutions than the phalanx.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

They accordingly asked and obtained a force from Rome to guard and support them.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Independently of our not finding fossil remains of such infinitely numerous connecting links, it may be objected, that time will not have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having been effected very slowly through natural selection.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

As a rule the Provencal women are inclined this way, and far from reproaching them I like them all the better for it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For friendship requires praise as much as censure on the proper occasion.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

This was called the rock of Chorienes; and to it Chorienes himself and many other chiefs had fled for refuge.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

But, where discord may be fatal, the choice of a faithful friend requires mature and serious deliberation.
— 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

The need of a simpler and swifter mode of writing is felt by all who have much writing to do—by newspaper men, by legal gentlemen, by clergymen, by students in taking class lectures and making notes of many things valuable for future "refreshment," authors and scientific men in recording important facts.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

And so you see I got discontented with myself; and I hated two men who were calling loud jokes at each other as they parted different ways; and I marched home through the fog, feeling rather inclined to quarrel with somebody.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

Along the whole length of the front façade ran a stone terrace with seven wide steps; the windows of the salle d'honneur opened upon this, and the windows of the petit salon and the dining- and billiard-room.
— from A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Thou'rt not unfeeling, The world ne'er censured thee for frigid rigor; The fervent prayer of love can touch thy heart.
— from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

We children, as we developed the faculty for romancing, beguiled ourselves with a special one of our own.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

STATE RIGHTS vs. FEDERAL RIGHTS "The South fought for States' Rights—Home Rule; the North, for Federal rights—National Supremacy."
— from Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford

For further reference to defensive weapons and armor, see: Carbajal Espinosa , Hist.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

“Go on,” persisted Cruel, and holding her left hand he thrust the ring on her fourth finger, repeating the words of the formula.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould