Ultan founded a monastery at Fosse in the diocese of Liège (then of Maestricht), and Fullan laboured in conjunction with St. Gertrude in the double monastery of Nivelles.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

When our forefathers lived in caves they had to watch moving objects, for movements meant danger.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

141 Note 138 ( return ) [ Bede, who in his chronicle (p. 28) places Ambrosius under the reign of Zeno, (A.D. 474-491,) observes, that his parents had been "purpura induti;" which he explains, in his ecclesiastical history, by "regium nomen et insigne ferentibus," (l. i. c. 16, p. 53.)
— 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

“Five leagues.” “Ah!” “Why do you say, ‘Ah?’” The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:— “Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly will not travel another quarter of a league.” He sprang out of the tilbury.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words.
— 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.

The revenue derived from labour is called wages; that derived from stock, by the person who manages or employs it, is called profit; that derived from it by the person who does not employ it himself, but lends it to another, is called the interest or the use of money.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

One stretch of that platform, two hundred feet long, is composed of blocks of stone as large, and some of them larger, than a street-car.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The Spectator , the only one of the four journals thus far considered which ultimately remained constant in advocacy of the Northern cause, was at first lukewarm in comment, regarding the 1860 election, while fought on the slavery issue, as in reality a mere contest between parties for political power
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Opposite, and to the east of St. Louis, is the isle of Sor, which is four or five leagues in circumference; it is of a long and almost triangular form: there are two extensive plains in it, where habitations might be erected.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. to Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. by Alexandre Corréard

I sailed from Liverpool in charge of three hundred and fifty Saints, on the tenth of July.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

Dante seems to be the first author who hath introduced the mention of an orologio that struck the hour, and which consequently cannot be a dial, in the following lines:— Indi come horologio che ne chiami , Nel hora che la sposa d’Idio surge, Amattinar lo sposo, perche l’ami 1090 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The following legend is current among the Koramas, to explain the practice of the couvade among them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston