Yet the observations of Kosegarten, which Rosenmuller has given in a note, and common reason, suggest that this Chaldaism may be the native form of a much earlier dialect; or the Chaldaic may have adopted the poetical archaisms of a dialect, differing from, but not less ancient than, the Hebrew.
— 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

Durban is a neat and clean town.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I am not a coward, and, quite as well as another, I can face real danger, or smile at the visionary perils of imagination.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Kiss me, oh kiss me lots of times, and say I am not a coward and a contemptible humbug—I can't bear it!"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

So that though ideas formerly imprinted are not all constantly in view, yet in remembrance they are constantly known to be such as have been formerly imprinted; i.e. in view, and taken notice of before, by the understanding.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

He played with some papers on the table in a nervous and confused manner, opening his lips to speak several times, but closing them again without having the courage to utter a word.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I am not a cold-natured, sexless creature, am I, for keeping you at such a distance?
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

In cheap houses this moulding in section is angular; notches are cut in the uprights, and into these notches the sharp edge of the angular moulding rests and is secured ( fig. 19 ).
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

Though I am neither a cardinal nor a prophet, should you and I live twenty years longer, and the other Continental Sovereigns not alter their present incomprehensible conduct, I can, without any risk, predict that we shall see Rome salute the second
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

The woes and tribulations which threaten it are partly avoidable, but mostly inevitable and God-sent, for by reason of them a government and people clinging tenaciously to the obsolescent doctrine of absolute sovereignty and upholding a political system, manifestly at variance with the needs of a world already contracted into a neighborhood and crying out for unity, will find itself purged of its anachronistic conceptions, and prepared to play a preponderating role, as foretold by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in the hoisting of the standard of the Lesser Peace, in the unification of mankind, and in the establishment of a world federal government on this planet.
— from Citadel of Faith by Effendi Shoghi

CHAPTER I. A NIGHT AT CROW STREET.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

It is in one sense a long story by this time; but I have come to the same conclusion that Cecil did about needs of the modern world in religion and right dealing, and I am now a Catholic in the same sense as he, having long claimed the name in its Anglo-Catholic sense.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

It will, indeed, be replied that I am not a competent judge; that pleasure is incompatible with pain, that joy is excluded from sickness; and that the felicity of a school-boy consists in the perpetual motion of thoughtless and playful agility, in which I was never qualified to excel.
— from A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Percy Lubbock

Every man ought thus to say to himself I am nominating a consul who is to cope with the general Hannibal.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

From her mother, Lady Mary Dudley, this admirable woman inherited a noble and congenial spirit; from her father, Sir Henry Sidney, surpassing abilities, moral excellencies, enlarged views, generous motives.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 3 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

And I am not a coward, and if I were told that I must die within an hour, I could say, 'How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!' Cannot you understand me?
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

By assimilating such available forms of it as nitrates, and converting them into organic nitrogen, they prevent the loss of this most valuable of all soil constituents that would otherwise take place.
— from Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman