Abu-l Fazl says it had long remained desolate and unknown, and was discovered by mere accident.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

We next have Lucentum 955 , holding Latian rights; Dianium 956 , a tributary town; the river Sucro 957 , and in former times a town of the same name, forming the frontier of Contestania.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

"L'Irredentisme hellénique," La Revue de Paris , XX (Juillet-Août, 1913), 884-86.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"That for his love refused deity."
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her 'rubbish', as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Dear aunt positively devoured me with her caresses, and before I was shown up to my room, had drawn me into her little room downstairs, had a suck at my prick, leant her body on the table, stuck out her immense arse, and had me into her cunt for a rapid rack-off; but this only excited me to an immediate renewal, for the touch and sight of her splendid buttocks instantly produced a stiffness, she herself in the middle of my movements in front, drawing my prick out of her cunt and guiding it into the inviting entrance to the secret altar of Juno and of Venus Callipyge.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He looked rather determined now, in a desolate sort of way, and Carrie felt very sorry.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

On Maria Riddell “Praise Woman still,” his lordship roars, “Deserv'd or not, no matter?”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Besides the very large space required for open switches on circuits of 5,000 to 10,000 volts or more, there is a further objection that the arcs developed by opening such switches under heavy loads rapidly destroy the contact parts and produce large quantities of metallic vapor that is objectionable in a central station.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

However, I had little rest during the night as I was not sure of my shots, and I did not like to take risks with them, so I spent the remainder of the night soliloquizing on things in general and nothing in particular.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

But that Shakespeare's Cymbeline and his later romantic dramas betray any consciousness of the existence of Philaster and its succeeding King and No King has not been proved.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

'Vivian hácia las riberas del rio Atoyac, entre la ciudad de Tlaxcala y
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Non hic manna latet, legifer aut lapis, Non ramus sterilis: flos viget hic ferax Virtutum; sacer hic panis homo Deus; Hic legis residet dator.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

In a house on the western side of Tower Hill Lady Raleigh dwelt with her son when her husband was denied her society.
— from The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser

For Mrs. Graham was set upon a perverse and obstinate opposition to any marriage for her last remaining daughter, rightly estimating the loss, to her, as one of a superior and most hard-working servant.
— from The Rhymer by Allan McAulay

The picador, instead of retiring with his stricken horse, had leisurely ridden down the arena to see the sport, and there he sat serenely, the bright entrails of the poor brute upholding him hanging to the ground.
— from The Travelling Thirds by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Although some blamed the young officer for his rashness, and others held Lord Raglan directly responsible for his loss, all agreed in execrating the vindictive cruelty of the uncompromising foe.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths