1. Why are the persons in that merry group laughing and chattering instead of listening to Mr. B——?
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

He had by the younger Antonia several children, but left behind him only three, namely, Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius. II.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Note 83 ( return ) [ The western Armenians used the Greek language and characters in their religious offices; but the use of that hostile tongue was prohibited by the Persians in the Eastern provinces, which were obliged to use the Syriac, till the invention of the Armenian letters by Mesrobes, in the beginning of the fifth century, and the subsequent version of the Bible into the Armenian language; an event which relaxed to the connection of the church and nation with Constantinople.
— 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

I have every reason to be happy, very happy, now; but then, Harry, I own I should have been happier.' Busy recollections of old hopes, cherished as a girl, long ago, crowded into the mind of Rose, while making this avowal; but they brought tears with them, as old hopes will when they come back withered; and they relieved her.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The story of the manner in which the early German settlers in Cracow, Galicia, were Polonized mainly under the influence of the Polish nobility, is all the more interesting when it is contrasted with the German colonists in the Siebenbürgen, which have remained strongholds of the German language and culture in the midst of a population of Roumanian peasants for nearly eight hundred years.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I expressed my wonder how, with the Highlands covered with troops, and guarded like a city in a siege, a man in his situation could come and go without arrest.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

His protestations had gradually become less and less vehement as they proceeded in their search without making any discovery; and, now, he gave vent to several very grim laughs, and confessed it could only have been his excited imagination.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

No Frank , I’ll have thee go like a Citizen In a Garded Gown, and a French Hood.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

—[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine] Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

When this news was known, the Epirotes raised a general levy and came in haste to the rescue.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

See Calvi Caravanserai , description of a, i. 97 Carestran , the meeting-place between Bajazet and his father, i. 187 Cardona , Don Juan de, Spanish officer, manages to get left at Chios, i. 323 ; is ransomed by his brother-in-law, with Busbecq’s help, 325 Casimir , John, son of the Elector Palatine, sketch of him, ii.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Let me ask you,—have you ever known anyone grow loose and careless in their religion, and at the same time become correspondingly nobler and purer, and more scrupulously faithful in their [Pg 244] daily life?
— from The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

their large aggregate wealth; and with forty thousand such people it is not strange that New Haven is now growing like a city in the west.
— from History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business by Chauncey Jerome

The personal friends, scholars, and adherents of Luther, on the contrary, for the most part more Lutheran than Luther himself, emulating the rugged decision of their great leader and carrying it out in a one-sided manner, were anxious rather to emphasise and widen as far as possible the gulf that lay between them and their opponents, Reformed and Catholics alike, and thus to make any reconciliation and union by way of compromise impossible.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

It extended over a great length, and came in straggling order, the men leading their animals, and making their way with difficulty through the thick trees.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"Tenderness is generally located at C in Alt , Beatrix.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

Mr. B——y, [111] an Irish gentleman, late a commissary in Germany.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

No hat hid her hair, which glinted like a casque in the sun as they turned away from the sea towards the dunes.
— from The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The German State takes great pride in the German language and considers it the most perfect of any spoken today.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton