A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner's impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

The distribution of the spoil was regulated by a divine law: the whole was faithfully collected in one common mass: a fifth of the gold and silver, the prisoners and cattle, the movables and immovables, was reserved by the prophet for pious and charitable uses; the remainder was shared in adequate portions by the soldiers who had obtained the victory or guarded the camp: the rewards of the slain devolved to their widows and orphans; and the increase of cavalry was encouraged by the allotment of a double share to the horse and to the man.
— 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

Besides the works on the isthmus which joins the Rock to the mainland, where three hundred pieces of artillery were now mounted, the chief reliance of the assailants was upon ten floating batteries elaborately contrived to be shot and fire proof, and carrying one hundred and fifty-four heavy guns.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

"Well, I'll say this for Pennyways," added Coggan, "that whenever he do really make up his mind to do a noble thing in the shape of a good action, as I could see by his face he did to-night afore sitting down, he's generally able to carry it out.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He was a spiritually-minded man and a fervent preacher, and cherished boundless love for his nation.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

While Alcibiades weighed anchor and sailed eastward straight for Phaselis and Caunus, the envoys sent by the Four Hundred to Samos arrived at Athens.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

From pity and charity !
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

That is, reason desires to be able to represent all the determinations of the internal sense as existing in one subject, all powers as deduced from one fundamental power, all changes as mere varieties in the condition of a being which is permanent and always the same, and all phenomena in space as entirely different in their nature from the procedure of thought.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This may be done by slipping the floor-board up against the uprights and carefully marking the places with a pencil where they will come through the board, and then at each mark sawing two inches in the floor plank, and cutting out the blocks with a chisel.
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

Il faut parler au chancelier
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

Each great ship had a single semiskilled blueskin for pilot and crew.
— from This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster

When a man enters the house of another under false pretenses, and compromises the reputation of his daughter, we old army men have a very expeditious way of making him answer for it.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

From that day all unrest vanished and the Trappist monk found peace and contentment in the life to which he had been advised by the curé of Ars.
— from The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord by Anonymous

After he has offered his present, Madge, Doll, and Richard come in, and the four perform a country dance.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

“Where is the memorandum I made last week for Percy and Company?” “Isn't it there?”
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

(FROM PERROT AND CHIPIEZ.)
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

"The ear,"—that guilty member which had so frequently proved a channel of communication for vanity, folly, and even uncleanness—that ear must be cleansed by the blood of the trespass-offering.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Now Gallia's war-built barks ascend in sight, White flags unfold, and armies robed in white On all the frontier streams their forts prepare, And coop our cantons with surrounding war.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow