The Mobile and Ohio railroad was guarded from Rienzi, south of Corinth, to Columbus; and the Mississippi Central railroad from Jackson, Tennessee, to Bolivar.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

aborde et me depose, Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Mr. George stands looking at these boxes a long while—as if they were pictures—and comes back to the fire repeating, "Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, and Manor of Chesney Wold, hey?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

‘In some respects both Tibullus and Ovid may claim the advantage over Propertius: Tibullus for refined simplicity, for 327 natural grace and exquisiteness of touch; Ovid for the technical merits of execution, for transparency of construction, for smoothness and polish of expression.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Regulus, as an example of heroism, and voluntary endurance for religion's sake, i. 22 , etc.; [Pg 570] the virtue of, far excelled that of Cato, 35 .
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The good lady, seeing herself hard pressed and Fra Rinaldo seeming to her belike goodlier than she had thought him aforetime, being one day sore importuned of him, had recourse to that argument which all women use who have a mind to yield that which is asked of them and said, 'How now, Fra Rinaldo?
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

This comfortable conviction had so good an effect that she lapsed into what seemed a moment's oblivion, but was in fact an hour's restless sleep, for when her eyes unclosed again the first red streaks were visible in the east, and a dim light found its way into the barn through the great door which had been left ajar for air.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

Here many a scull is riven, here men take more Than monkish tonsure at the warrior's hands: Heads fly and arms; and to the ditch a flood Runs streaming from the wall of crimson blood.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

Cultivated Englishmen were constantly appearing at the Langs', sent over by their fathers, for reasons sometimes mysterious, to stay for a week or a year.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

For, roughly speaking, individual land-holdings are larger in them on the average than among the Teutonic populations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

call the reader's particular attention to the Sectional Plan, B B, which shows the depths of the Five Royal Sepulchres, which are described fully in the two following chapters, beneath the surface of the soil, as it was before my excavations.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

He was the most famous rifle shot in the whole country and the most successful hunter.
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Clean, wash, and stuff your chickens as for roasting; sew each up in a piece of new tarlatan, fitted snugly to the shape.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

But in the Church there is provided for repentant sinners the Absolution from Sins, the remission of sin and its penalty.
— from The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Math Josef Frings

On the other hand, his arguments for reckoning Semitic languages among affix languages are very weak, and he seems also somewhat inclined to say that much in their structure resembles real flexion.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen