When he had said this, and had set his army in order, he brought it against the city: so they went round the city again, the ark going before them, and the priests encouraging the people to be zealous in the work; and when they had gone round it seven times, and had stood still a little, the wall fell down, while no instruments of war, nor any other force, was applied to it by the Hebrews.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The names of both persons and places are known to me; but for good reasons I suppress them.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

In a city where a great revenue is spent, to employ with advantage a capital for any other purpose than for supplying the consumption of that city, is probably more difficult than in one in which the inferior ranks of people have no other maintenance but what they derive from the employment of such a capital.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

At last Armelline mustered up courage to take the princess’s hand and kiss it, but when the lady kissed her on the lips the girl remained inactive, seeming to be absolutely ignorant of such a natural and easy matter as the returning of a kiss.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A procession of ten or twelve elephants, all fully decorated, goes round it several times, accompanied by drums and instrumental music.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I should be glad to know whether, when I have put on my green robe in spring, the trees do not afterwards do the same?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I slipt on a dressing-gown, went into our sitting room, rang for a waiter, and ordered breakfast to be got ready immediately, so that by the time we were dressed it was on the table all smoking hot, and we sat down and did full justice to it.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The substance to which this form is given remains irrational; so that rationality, like all excellence, is something secondary and relative, requiring a natural being to possess or to impute it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This searching after faith, she thought, was only one merit the more, and in the pride of her devoutness Emma compared herself to those grand ladies of long ago whose glory she had dreamed of over a portrait of La Valliere, and who, trailing with so much majesty the lace-trimmed trains of their long gowns, retired into solitudes to shed at the feet of Christ all the tears of hearts that life had wounded.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

So hold in grateful remembrance, I say, the memory of yonder good old miser.
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

Luca Giordano resided in Spain ten years, and in that time he executed an incredible number of grand frescos, and other works for the royal palaces, churches, and convents, as well as many more for individuals, enough to have occupied an ordinary man a long life.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

That which—in the name of a God of peace, manifested on earth by Christ, who, through love for sinners, gave himself to be crucified—brought slaughter on the Albigenses and the Waldenses; filled France with desolation, under Domenico di Guzman; raised in Spain the funeral pile and the scaffold, devastating the fair kingdoms of Granada and Castile, through the assistance of those detestable monks, Raimond de Pennefort, Peter Arbues, and Cardinal Forquemorda.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

Go read in story their deeds and glory, Their names amidst the nameless dead; Turn then from lying to us slow-dying
— from Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

Irresistibly I jumped out of bed, and running to the gallery rail I saw two dark figures moving among the leaves below.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Senator Gray resigned in September, to take part in Peace Commission on the Spanish War, and was succeeded by Senator Charles J. Faulkner, of West Virginia.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

Well, let me put it this way—you used your gross receipts, I suppose, to pay the running expenses?
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Glancing round, I saw that the foremost Kafirs were gaining on me fast, though had this incident occurred in 1876 instead of 1896, with the start I had got I would have run away from any of them.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

The family of Rhamneae, namely, the genus Rhamnus itself, supplies to the poorer classes in China a substitute for tea, and is known under the name of Rhamnus Theezaus Linn .
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir