The names of tyrant, of gladiator, of public enemy resounded in every corner of the house.
— 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

When singsong reading was going on, pupils echoing responsively the teacher’s voice, some wild boy would suddenly redouble his effort with gusto, and his voice, like that of a strangled chicken, would soar away up, to the great merriment of the rest.
— from When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

But regarding a thing which is pleasant, the mind may be stirred through the entire gamut of positive emotions, rising ultimately to that supreme activity which is Love.
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Even through the darkness it was easy to perceive groups of people either rushing backwards and forwards on the [320] Place or congregating in groups under the trees.
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

[196] Epicurus, under the natural guidance of principles enjoining repose and indifference to public affairs, inculcated a similar contempt.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Still, we cannot on that account ignore the teaching of psychology on the genesis of perceptual experience regarded, not as the ground of knowledge, but as a natural product.
— from Theism and Humanism Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 by Arthur James Balfour

As an example of the wall-paintings on plaster we may study a group of paintings, each representing an individual being, from one of the main temples at Sukwang-sa.
— from Korean Buddhism: History—Condition—Art by Frederick Starr

R. O Robert Quance Gravenhurst Muskoka Muskoka O Graystock Otanabee Peterborough, E. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

In my enthusiasm I already stand upon the boundary of the true world—I have a glimpse of paradise; earth recedes from my gaze; I understand and expect death, because life has bid me a last farewell—the exaltation that I feel belongs to the future of the blessed; it is a triumphant dying—that final and supremely happy thought that tells me my soul is about to take its flight.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme