But Porcaro had learned from the younger Brutus, that with tyrants no faith or gratitude should be observed: the exile declaimed against the arbitrary sentence; a party and a conspiracy were gradually formed: his nephew, a daring youth, assembled a band of volunteers; and on the appointed evening a feast was prepared at his house for the friends of the republic.
— 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

According to Brahmin law, animals all That inhabit the earth, be they mighty or small,— Be they men, mice, or wolves, or e'en creatures more coarse,— Their souls have derived from one general source; And vary, in physical actions, just so As the form of their organs may force them to do.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Huge straw ricks, log huts full of grain, Sleek cattle, flowers, a tinkling bell, Spoke in a language sweet and plain, "Here smiling Peace and Plenty dwell."
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

Whereas Will. Honeycomb , tho' a Fellow of good Sense, is every Day doing and saying an hundred Things which he afterwards confesses, with a well-bred Frankness, were somewhat mal a propos , and undesigned.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

That the reader may be no longer in suspense, he will be pleased to remember, that we have often mentioned the family of George Seagrim (commonly called Black George, the gamekeeper), which consisted at present of a wife and five children.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The sergeant was full of good stories, principally about Rob Roy, and proved to be a very good companion.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

Agriculture - products: grains, tobacco, potatoes, citrus fruits, olives, grapes; sheepherding; commercial fishing negligible Industries: steelmaking, aluminum, agricultural processing, consumer goods, tourism Electricity - production: 2.864 billion kWh (2005 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

then follow: On the green of the hill We will drink our fill Of golden sunshine, Till our brains intertwine With the glory and grace of Apollo!
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

The people of Massachusetts were never fond of Governor Shirley’s young French wife.
— from The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But most of these dramatists, who may altogether be considered as forming one great school, were contemporary with Lope de Vega only during their younger years.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

This Malayan empire was maritime and commercial; it had fleets of great ships; and there is evidence that its influence reached most of the Pacific islands.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin