Besides, it expels excrements by sweat and other insensible vapours; insomuch, that [3219] Galen prefers exercise before all physic, rectification of diet, or any regimen in what kind soever; 'tis nature's physician.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Whilst the Gallic provinces enjoyed as much happiness as the condition of the times was capable of receiving, Italy and Africa groaned under the dominion of a tyrant, as contemptible as he was odious.
— 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 glorious procession entered the gate of the hippodrome; was saluted by the acclamations of the senate and people; and halted before the throne where Justinian and Theodora were seated to receive homage of the captive monarch and the victorious hero.
— 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

This in good, pure English.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

1.], that the understanding, when it acts alone, and according to its most general principles, entirely subverts itself, and leaves not the lowest degree of evidence in any proposition, either in philosophy or common life.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He declared himself utterly incapable of thinking to good purpose except in full court dress.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

His mental powers were considerable, and to these he added the advantages of a noble stature and great physical energy and courage.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

In this manner the Italian lured on from month to month his credulous and guilty patron, extracting from him all the valuables he possessed, and only waiting a favourable opportunity to decamp with his plunder.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Siler, J. F. , Garrison, P. E., and MacNeal, W. J. 1914.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

They also speculate largely at times in Government Paper, especially during the off season, but rarely or ever hold it or lend on it.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

Alano, finding he could trust the gentleman, took him into his confidence, and, as a result, we obtained not only a good pistol each,—weapons we immediately secreted in our clothing,—but also received full details of how to leave Santiago de Cuba by crossing the bay in a rowboat and taking to the woods and mountains beyond.
— from When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums by Edward Stratemeyer

187 Little Lorikeet , Jerryang, G. pusillus , E.A., S.A., T.
— from An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

It is nothing less than pitiful to contemplate in imagination our great-great-grandmothers—and all their forebears of the long centuries—drudging away day after day, year in and year out, at the ceaseless task of spinning and weaving—only to produce, as the output of a lifetime of labor, a quantity of cloth equivalent perhaps to what our perfected machine, driven by steam, and manipulated by a factory girl, produces each working hour of every day.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

2 The French runs: “ Et nous a laissé un gage precieux , etc.”
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

It was the usual entrance of great personnages, except the king and the princes of the blood, who entered the church by the great western porch.
— from Rouen, Its History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet

The results certainly favor the view that the conversion of the primary products of gastric digestion into true peptone is a slow and gradual process, even under the most favorable circumstances, and that this lack of complete peptonization is not due to accumulation of the products of digestion, but is rather an inherent quality of pepsin-proteolysis under all circumstances.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

"I put it there so that you'd see it," George persuasively excused himself for the untidiness.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett