The sultans of Iconium opposed some resistance to the Mogul arms, till Azzadin sought a refuge among the Greeks of Constantinople, and his feeble successors, the last of the Seljukian dynasty, were finally extirpated by the khans of Persia.
— 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

For he, great votarist, intent On strictest rule his stern life spent.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The same ignorant or stubborn religiosity, negative for good, working evil for all affected by it, has been studied by Galdós in two subsequent novels, La Familia de León Roch and Gloria , which are generally reputed to be, with Doña Perfecta , the greatest of his works.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But by God's final judgment, which shall be administered by His Son Jesus Christ, there shall by God's grace be manifested a glory so pervading and so new, that no vestige of what is old shall remain; for even our bodies shall pass from their old corruption and mortality to new incorruption and immortality.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This explanation of the double-headed Janus at Rome is confirmed by the double-headed idol which the Bush negroes in the interior of Surinam regularly set up as a guardian at the entrance of a village.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Having done this, he seated himself in his favorite arm-chair, filled and lighted a pipe and smoked it out, staring reflectingly at the fire as long as his tobacco lasted.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) began, like Kingsley, with the idea of making the novel the instrument of social reform.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES “T o the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph , “it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The municipality has turned over to them large tracts of real estate, some of which has been improved with great profit; it has secured funds by borrowing from banks upon the personal credit of its members, and by issuing bonds which sell at a high premium, and the money has been used in the improvement of the city, in the introduction of sanitary reforms, in building model tenements for the poor, in creating institutions of public necessity or advantage and by serving the people in various other ways.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

Then they consulted together; whereupon one among them—evidently against the desire of his companions, as their gestures betokened—took the rope of his bullock between his teeth, and diving into the river, with a good imitation of swimming reached the other side.
— from Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah by Mimosa

Lucid in intellect, tender in sentiment, was this friend of St. Bernard, whom Dante places in Paradise with St. Anselm and St. Bonaventure ( Par. , xii: 30); and Hugues’ disciple, Richard de St. Victor (d. 1173), ranked in Paradise as the companion of the Venerable Bede and St. Isidore of Seville, “Richard, who in contemplation was more than man” ( Par. , x: 132); and Adam de St. Victor, one of the best poets of the XII century, whose sequences and rimed proses fill the liturgy.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Nothing of its old state remains but the Gateway on Richmond Green, above which may be traced the arms of England, as borne by Henry VII.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

The coat of mail was made of small iron or steel rings linked together, or fastened on to a leather shirt.
— from Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. (John Henry) Haaren