Rerum Italicarum Scriptores , (A.D. 500—1500,) quorum potissima pars nunc primum in lucem prodit , &c., xxviii.
— 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

Yet where opposing forces are able mutually to comprehend and respect one another, common ideal interests at once supervene, and though the material conflict may remain irrepressible, it will be overlaid by an intellectual life, partly common and unanimous.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

For after the rest is said—after the many time-honor'd and really true things for subordination, experience, rights of property, &c., have been listen'd to and acquiesced in—after the valuable and well-settled statement of our duties and relations in society is thoroughly conn'd over and exhausted—it remains to bring forward and modify everything else with the idea of that Something a man is, (last precious consolation of the drudging poor,) standing apart from all else, divine in his own right, and a woman in hers, sole and untouchable by any canons of authority, or any rule derived from precedent, state-safety, the acts of legislatures, or even from what is called religion, modesty, or art.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But it has been shown that, in the inorganic life, pain cannot be thus the necessity for the organic.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

It has already been said, that it is stript from him in long pieces, called blanket-pieces.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It means that experience as an active process occupies time and that its later period completes its earlier portion; it brings to light connections involved, but hitherto unperceived.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

What spontaneity initiates let practise complete.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Ingerta los perales, caro Melibeo, arregla las parras.... ¿
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Se ha hablado tanto de la resistencia que ponen los exportadores norteamericanos para imitar los procedimientos comerciales europeos, que me interesa sobremanera saber en qué consisten estos últimos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Gora Ayribaba 3,139 m Turks and Caicos Islands: lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Blue Hills 49 m Tuvalu: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He said the House of Lords through its law peers could decide questions of mere ecclesiastical law, and the decisions would carry weight and authority; but neither peers nor bishops could in England decide a question of doctrine.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

We did not guess this fearsome future, but instead lay peacefully, contentedly under the leaves, with the balmy softness of the firs in the air we breathed, and the flaming firelight in our eyes.
— from In the Valley by Harold Frederic

Potato beetles can also be controlled by jarring them from the affected plants into large pans containing a little water on which a thin scum of kerosene is floating.
— from Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by W. W. (William Warner) Tracy

Your guests will greatly enjoy creamed chicken with peas, deviled eggs, ice cream in the form of lilies, or in lily paper cases, bonbons and fancy cakes.
— from When Mother Lets Us Give a Party A book that tells little folk how best to entertain and amuse their little friends by Elsie Duncan Yale

The city had monuments and a few signs in English elucidating Laotian history, but signs of international commerce or even signs in Laotian prompting capitalism on a local level, seemed scarce.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills

To remove the mawkish flatness of such beer it was customary to flavour it with spices and other strong ingredients: long pepper continued to be used for this purpose some time after the introduction of hops.
— from Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present by John Timbs

One made by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney ran for three months in 1831 with passengers between Cheltenham and Gloucester, while Hancock’s steam omnibuses (carrying 14 to 16 passengers) ran in London pretty constantly during the years 1833–36, and often at a speed of 10 or 12 miles an hour; some of his coaches ran long journeys, such as from London to Brighton, and he was the most successful of all inventors in this line, page 63 p. 63 unless we except Scott Russell, who, in 1834, ran six steam coaches between Glasgow and Paisley.
— from Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

In 1993, the government of Kenya implemented a program of economic liberalization and reform that included the removal of import licensing, price controls, and foreign exchange controls.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

For instance, in Roxarius’ edition of Oribasius it is stated that the Indian Lykion “præstat ceteris et est efficacius.”
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson