2 "The protection of the republic has delivered Gaul from internal discord and foreign invasions.
— 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

And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.”
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nous utilisons l'internet comme une source d'information que nous distillons ensuite à nos lecteurs, qui autrement seraient confrontés au problème majeur du web: faire face à un flux incontrôlé d'informations. Comment voyez-vous l'expansion du multilinguisme sur le web?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

So much so that if Emelyanoushka had gone away I should have felt that I had nothing to live for, I do believe....
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I have been thinking of your affair, Mr. Melopoyn,” said he, “and am determined to show how far I have your interest at heart, by introducing you to a young nobleman of my acquaintance, who is remarkable for his fine taste in dramatic writings, and is besides a man of such influence that, if once he should approve of your play, his patronage will support it against all the efforts of envy and ignorance; for, I do assure you, that merit alone will not bring success.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Another of the stories in this book was, that if a woman, on leaving off work on Saturday night, left her distaff loaded, she might be sure that the thread she would obtain from it during the following week would only produce linen of bad quality, which could not be bleached; this was considered to be proved by the fact that the Germans wore dark-brown coloured shirts, and it was known that the women never unloaded their distaffs from Saturday to Monday.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

1 Because the especially cordial relations which existed to the last between Governor Wright and myself 2 are familiar to a number of very dear mutual friends, I deem it due both to them and to myself, in view of the contents of the preceding chapter, to state [ 500 ] that I see no reason why, in writing a history of the American Occupation of the Philippines, I should omit or slur the facts which convinced me that that occupation ought to terminate as soon as practicable, and that any decent kind of a government of Filipinos by Filipinos would be better for all concerned than the McKinley-Taft programme of Benevolent Assimilation whereof Governor Wright was the legatee.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Thus, aquila , eagle , is feminine, though it may denote a he-eagle as well as a she-eagle ; anatēs , ducks , feminine, includes drakes .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But soon the Goddess, fired with high disdain To see me woo the yellow strumpet, Gain, Resuming all her beauty, all her power, Returns to triumph in the vacant hour; Weakly reluctant, on her charms I gaze, Trembling, I feel her fascinating lays; Roused from ignoble dreams, my wondering soul Springs to the well-known bliss, regardless of control.
— from Poetry by Thomas Oldham

for I did not wish to explain them.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

“The fact that the gas is three times heavier than air makes escape from its disastrous effects almost impossible, for it drifts like a thick fog-cloud along the surface of the ground, overwhelming all whom it overtakes.”
— from Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania by Logan Marshall

“When I see the flame I do not see the people.
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason

"Well, frankly, I don't think you ought, my dear," said her husband, lightly.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume II by Frances Eleanor Trollope

The land as we advanced appeared much better, though still very naked, having only a few poor crooked small trees, that rather increased than took from its desolate appearance.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

Berean , being of lighter draught, passed her and was first in dock.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

And the way scientific farming is developing the farmer's work can give as much scope to his brain power as any of the learned professions.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

A RUNAWAY AUTO Behind the boys sounded the yells and shouts of the men in camp, mingled with rifle shots and the screeching of several of the cougars, for, it developed, a band of three, grown desperate by hunger, had made an attack.
— from The Motor Boys Across the Plains; or, The Hermit of Lost Lake by Clarence Young

For I defy you to imagine yourself what you would have been in the epoch of which you speak.
— from Cosmopolis — Volume 2 by Paul Bourget