13 Something of a doubtful mist still hangs over these Highland traditions; nor can it be entirely dispelled by the most ingenious researches of modern criticism; 14 but if we could, with safety, indulge the pleasing supposition, that Fingal lived, and that Ossian sung, the striking contrast of the situation and manners of the contending nations might amuse a philosophic mind.
— 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

Whereat the Baron saying, 'I well believe You be of Arthur's Table,' a light laugh Broke from Lynette, 'Ay, truly of a truth, And in a sort, being Arthur's kitchen-knave!— But deem not I accept thee aught the more, Scullion, for running sharply with thy spit Down on a rout of craven foresters.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

A report having been circulated that somebody, either Satsuma or Tokugawa people, were going to blow up the martello tower which stood at the end of the dry river bed between Hiôgo and Kôbé, boats were sent from H.M.S. "Ocean," the French flagship "Laplace" and the "Oneida"; the door was locked and the key taken away.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Although government was strong and flourished exceedingly, the court had drawn far less advantage than one would imagine from this great source of power.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

{172} To set it up, cut three small saplings, one of which should be twelve feet long and the other two, ten feet long.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The specific stripes may follow late after the offense, but they follow because they accompany it.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desires of love and tyranny are the farthest from law, and those of the king are nearest to it.
— from The Republic by Plato

Yet, for months afterwards, I felt lonely and tired of myself; I had never had an idea how painful it is to part from the only few individuals who are attached to you.
— from The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas by Frederick Marryat

The moon, full-orbed and with a pulse of flame, led a tide of soft light across the brown shores of the world.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

The French lieutenant and two other officers I ordered into our own boats, to take on board as prisoners; the rest of the French who had been captured, with their wounded, we put into the three small French boats which had been captured in the first attack, taking away their oars, that, when I shoved off and left the vessel, they might drift about till they were picked up by the French ship.
— from Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat

The figures of this group, which were in tolerable preservation at the time when Lord Elgin's cast was made, have since been nearly effaced, particularly the face, legs and torch of the satyr, and the face and legs of the pirate, also the rocks upon which he is seated, and the serpent.
— from The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

Instead of a silken gown, furbelowed like all the others they had seen women wear in this land, Tourmaline was dressed in a severely plain robe of coarse pink cloth much resembling bedticking.
— from Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

There are certainly many persons who derive very considerable revenues from houses; but they must be very few, if any, who have ample incomes from land, and this only in the immediate vicinity of the largest and oldest cities.
— from A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

Then she, too, held out one hand and looked at it curiously, looked curiously at all the ringless fingers, looked at the one finger that held Lord Farquhart’s betrothal ring.
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

There he was informed by the very affable clerk, who assisted him to choose his cabin, that the vessel was unusually empty, and that, up to the present time, berths had been taken for only five ladies, and two of them Jewesses.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard