At Paris, which he already considered as his royal seat, Clovis declared to an assembly of the princes and warriors, the pretence, and the motive, of a Gothic war.
— 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

she said to herself resolutely, shifting her seat in the lounge.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Welcome home, reverend Sir,” said the physician.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

she ran on a full quarter of an hour, till, having exhausted her breath rather than her rage, she concluded with threatening to go immediately and acquaint her brother.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have required Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,— To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, 55 Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

And what he told in the Book was not as much as he had really seen, because of the tongues of detractors, who, being ready to impose their own lies on others, are over hasty to set down as lies what they in their perversity disbelieve, or do not understand.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

So he remained standing a while, and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Greece on her ramparts stands the fierce alarms; The crowded bulwarks blaze with waving arms, Shield touching shield, a long refulgent row; Whence hissing darts, incessant, rain below.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But if he had really shown her any testamentary tenderness, it would be affecting to think of him, poor man, when he was gone; and even his foolish fuss about the flowers and garden-stuff, and his insistence on the subject of snails, would be touching when it was once fairly at an end.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Gunpowder ... came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head—
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

A part of our being has remained still in the nineteenth century, while another part of it has seemed in some unaccountable way walking among the phantoms of the tenth.
— from The Innocents Abroad — Volume 03 by Mark Twain

and I had tried in a humble and diffident way to convert him, and as he had remained silent we had taken his silence as a sort of encouragement; necessarily, then, this talk of his was a disappointment to us, for it showed that we had made no deep impression upon him.
— from The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance by Mark Twain

The vicar or viceroy of a kingdom is one who acts for the king—a vicar's act therefore is virtually the act of the principal whom he represents; so that if the Papal doctrine were true, when the vicar of Christ pardons , Christ has pardoned.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

The tenants of the flat, T. T. Conklin, a well-known saloon keeper, and his wife, were among his most intimate and confidential friends, and with them the physician, who was a confirmed bachelor, had resided so long that he was regarded, to all intents and purposes, as one of the family.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

Thorax haud marginatus lateribus haud rotundatis subcylindricus antice angustius, postice sublobatus.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

"My dainty lady," said the hideous Cyclops, as he rudely seized the arm of Callirhoë, "this is not the sort of bracelet you've been used to wear.
— from Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

He related several instances of similar cases that had come to his attention since he had been in newspaper work.
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis

His coat hung in large loose wrinkles over his rounded shoulders: his trousers appeared to hitch up about the thighs, as if through some defect in their cut; two or three of his waistcoat buttons had escaped from their holes, or else had not been fastened in them at all; his cravat was limp; and his shirt-frill was tumbled.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

During her waking hours, Rhoda spent the greater part of her time considering arguments that would have weight with Kut-le when the struggle came which she knew was imminent.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow