We have already traced the emigration of the Goths from Scandinavia, or at least from Prussia, to the mouth of the Borysthenes, and have followed their victorious arms from the Borysthenes to the Danube.
— 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

The custom of trundling a burning wheel over the fields, which used to be observed in Poitou for the express purpose of fertilising them, may be thought to embody the same idea in a still more graphic form; since in this way the mock-sun itself, not merely its light and heat represented by torches, is made actually to pass over the ground which is to receive its quickening and kindly influence.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

She was evidently grateful for such a profession.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

"I am at least very far from regretting it, my dear sister," said she; "on the contrary, I am grateful for so favourable a sign of my daughter's sense.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

It is an excellent sauce for such whose blood wants clarifying, and for weak stomachs, being an herb of Mars, but naught for choleric people, though as good for such as are aged, or troubled with cold diseases.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It is singularly good for such as are asthmatic, and can hardly fetch their breath; as also for young children, whose throat is so narrow that they can hardly swallow down their milk.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

“The breast-plate pierced!—Ay, much I fear, Weak fence wert thou ’gainst foeman’s spear, That hath made fatal entrance here, As these dark blood-gouts say.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the Duke of Chester, who was an optimist, “it’s jolly good for some things.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

M. Magister noster puerīs puellīsque grātās Gallōrum fābulās saepe nārrat et laudat eōs saepe.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"Then give me your advice, my good friend," said Anna.
— from The Countess Cosel: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

“I've been going for several days, and so has my cousin, Jumper the Hare.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Some of the shrines were of the size and make of the dolls’-houses of our English children, others in their height and gorgeousness resembled the most successful of our burlesques upon Guy Fawkes: some were borne on litters by four men; others mounted on light carts and drawn by bullocks, while the gigantic taboot of the Third Cavalry required six buffaloes for its transport to the river.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

"Yes, good for sticking purposes," said the first speaker, trying to shake some of the mud from his boots; "I never saw soil with greater adhesive qualities."
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

" "I hae nae grand friends," said Jeanie; "nae friends but what are friends of yours—Reuben Butler and my father.—O unhappy lassie, dinna be dour, and turn your back on your happiness again!
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

"Well, then it is quite easy," she replied with a laugh almost like a giggle, for she was quite as simple and primitive as her sister.
— from The Money Master, Volume 5. by Gilbert Parker

It is sometimes said that the existing law could be utilized for bringing actions of this kind, and that no greater facilities should be offered for fear of increasing attempts at blackmail.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

"Fred, what a shocking noise!" "Oh, shut up, Con, and let a fellow alone," grumbled Fred, subsiding into a chair.
— from The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy

[Pg 360] R Scene from Racine’s comedy Les Plaideurs , in which a dog is tried and condemned to the galleys for stealing a capon.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans