Release the fugitive Orchan, crown him sultan of Romania; call the Hungarians from beyond the Danube; arm against us the nations of the West; and be assured, that you will only provoke and precipitate your ruin."
— 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

Such inconveniences, however, instead of disgusting the dwarf with his new abode, rather suited his humour; so, after dining luxuriously from the public-house, he lighted his pipe, and smoked against the chimney until nothing of him was visible through the mist but a pair of red and highly inflamed eyes, with sometimes a dim vision of his head and face, as, in a violent fit of coughing, he slightly stirred the smoke and scattered the heavy wreaths by which they were obscured.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The latter sentence, Puta, &c, &c., is a concession for the sake of argument: wha follows is more to the purpose.—M. Many other passages of Tertullian prove that the army was full of Christians, Hesterni sumus et vestra omnia implevimus, urbes, insulas, castella, municipia, conciliabula, castra ipsa.
— 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

Sancho Panza alone was fuming at the lateness of the hour for retiring to rest; and he of all was the one that made himself most comfortable, as he stretched himself on the trappings of his ass, which, as will be told farther on, cost him so dear.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He brushed his clothes most scrupulously twice a day invariably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How, led partly by his roving instincts, and partly from other circumstances, he started with her to California.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had once said: "We all have our pet common people—" and though the phrase was a daring one, its truth was secretly admitted in many an exclusive bosom.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

So was it once: But now far other creed hath sanctified This dim seclusion, and all human hearts Unto its spirit deeply reconciled.
— from The Isle of Palms, and Other Poems by John Wilson

"None of us have ever found any factor of contagion," he said.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

It is not to be doubted that the various factors of climate have some such discriminating influence.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

For of course her stepsister was in a more serious condition than she had confessed to the other girl.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Margaret Vandercook

The wagon boss, knowing the red man's fear of cannon, had swung the great boiler around so that it had appeared to point at them.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

Faustus fuerit ominoso cognomine, hero suo infidus et infaustus.”
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

"For Fred, of course," he said, "it's different.
— from Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock

Still full of courage, he swung the stick round his head to keep the wretches at a distance, and, as loudly as he could, he prayed to God to send him help.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

But not even for once could he succeed.
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse

Bobby turned squarely to survey the frowning Johnson and the still beaming Applerod, and with a flash of clarity he saw his father’s wisdom.
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester