it seems that was the Word) Let us rush in upon them , which was no sooner heard, but they all began with their naked Swords in hand to pierce their tender and naked Bodies, and spill their generous and Noble blood, till not one of them was left alive on the place, and the rest following his example in other parts, (to their inexpressible stupefaction and grief) seized on all these Provinces. Nor will the Inhabitants till the General conflagration ever discontinue the Celebration of these Festivals, and the Lamentation and Singing with certain kind of Rhythmes in their Arcytos , the doleful ditty of the Calamity and Ruin of this Seminary of the antient Nobility of the whole Kingdom, which was their frequent Pride and Glory.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

The first is laid out by dividing the length into five parts and giving three parts to the width; the second, by dividing it into three parts and assigning two parts to the width; the third, by using the width to describe a square figure with equal sides, drawing a diagonal line in this square, and giving the atrium the length of this diagonal line.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He escaped from thence with only seven horsemen, and made his last stand in a third capital, till at length the hopeless monarch, protesting his innocence and accusing his fortune, ascended a funeral pile, and gave orders, that, as soon as he had stabbed himself, the fire should be kindled by his attendants.
— 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

It is a serious and just libel against our disorder in paying of our money, making ten times more people wait than we have money for, and complaining by name of Sir W. Batten for paying away great sums to particular people, which is true.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Ardalion Alexandrovitch immediately did his best to make his foolish position a great deal worse.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2. The Sociology of Assimilation Accommodation has been described as a process of adjustment, that is, an organization of social relations and attitudes to prevent or to reduce conflict, to control competition, and to maintain a basis of security in the social order for persons and groups of divergent interests and types to carry on together their varied life-activities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

They are men like Cicero, Plato, Bacon, Pascal, Swift, Voltaire—writers with, in the first place, a genius and instinct for style....
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He’s only just got home from his fever patients, and gave orders he was not to be waked.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yes, divinity of the world, I read your characters in her looks and gesture; I heard your melodious voice echoed by her—you prepared for us a soft and flowery path, all gentle thoughts adorned it—your name, O Love, was not spoken, but you stood the Genius of the Hour, veiled, and time, but no mortal hand, might raise the curtain.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In fine mechanical work, such as bearings for delicate instruments and in tools for polishing and grinding, agate is still extensively used.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901] by Various

Madame de la Fontaine paused and glanced at her companion with a charming little air of interrogation.
— from The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold

More than this, He is able at the same time, by creation, to produce the subject, so as to dispose a soul for prophecy and give it the prophetic grace, at the very instant of its creation.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It brings us more than triple aid; an aid To chase our thoughtlessness, fear, pride, and guilt.
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Till the eve is past, Whoop like boys at pounders Fairly played and grassed.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

As he hobbled out to the front portico and gazed around on the wide fields spread out below him, with that winding ribbon of tender green, where the river ran between its borders of willows and sycamores, he renewed his resolve to follow in his father’s footsteps.
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

I had not expected to find my pupil so far advanced; however, the Paradise Lost is a kind of school book, and its finest passages are given to young ladies as tasks.
— from The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving

Here also stood the Coldbath Fields Prison, and gradually, as buildings surrounded the jail, the district lost prestige as a health resort.
— from The Post Office and Its Story An interesting account of the activities of a great government department by Edward Bennett