The Byzantine writers deplore the loss of an inestimable pearl: they forgot to mention, that in this fatal day the Asiatic provinces of Rome were irretrievably sacrificed.
— 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

Hetty liked Dinah as well as she had ever liked any woman; how was it possible to feel otherwise towards one who always put in a kind word for her when her aunt was finding fault, and who was always ready to take Totty off her hands—little tiresome Totty, that was made such a pet of by every one, and that Hetty could see no interest in at all?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

It is at this epoch, then, that I place the first union of speculative and operative Masonry,—a union which continued uninterruptedly to exist until a comparatively recent period, to which I shall have occasion hereafter briefly to advert.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

(3) The argument which seems decisive is the extreme improbability that St Paul should have recommended slavery in preference to freedom.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Does it mean: "How is it possible to fear so little the punishments of the future life?"
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Primus inter pares —The first among equals.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The poetic Psyche, in its process to full development, undergoes as many changes as its Greek namesake, the butterfly
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And indeed the multitude of carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another was a horrible sight, and produced a pestilential stench, which was a hinderance to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the enemy: but as those were to go in battle-array, who had been already used to ten thousand murders, and must tread upon those dead bodies as they marched along, so were not they terrified, nor did they pity men as they marched over them; nor did they deem this affront offered to the deceased to be any ill omen to themselves; but as they had their right hands already polluted with the murders of their own countrymen, and in that condition ran out to fight with foreigners, they seem to me to have cast a reproach upon God himself, as if he were too slow in punishing them; for the war was not now gone on with as if they had any hope of victory; for they gloried after a brutish manner in that despair of deliverance they were already in.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Why, I know not, but I was instinctively prompted to feign sleep.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The mother was immensely pleased to find that her exertions in my behalf had not been thrown away, and the boys pressed around me, armed with straws, and begging for a taste.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

Highway Robberies , by what classes committed, 95 —— systematically planned and executed, 102 , 103 —— suggestions for preventing them by means of a Travelling Police, 109 , n. Homicide , 45 , 46 Horse Patroles proposed, 109 , n. Horses Stolen , receiving them as such no Crime, 9 , n. —— how to be remedied, 303 , 550 —— Frauds and Felonies respecting, immense, 103 , n. , 115 , n. Hospitals in the Metropolis, 573 Houses in the Metropolis 160,000, and upwards, 568 Houses of Correction , authorized in different Counties, 455 —— Regulations, 459 , 460 Hue and Cry , a particular means of arresting Criminals, 388 , 389 Hulks , the depravity of the Convicts confined in them, 24 —— First instituted in 1776, 455 —— Regulations by Parliament (See Convicts ), 461 I. & J. Idle Poor , the Funds appropriated for their support a Public Evil, 80 , 82 , &c. Jews , (Dutch) their mode of Education a National Injury, as it promotes Idleness and Profligacy among the lower ranks, 119 , 319 —— Objects of regulation as Dealers in old Metals and Apparel, 120 —— the principal Utterers of base Coin, 182 , 190 —— the deplorable state of the lower orders belonging to the Dutch Synagogues, and the difficulties in making them useful, 120 , 319 , &c. —— they are generally the medium by which stolen Goods are concealed and sold, 292 Jewish Synagogues in London, 568 Jewish Laws relative to Murder, 43 —— —— Sodomy, 46 —— —— Rape, 47 —— ——Theft, 52 Immorality of worse consequence than Political Crimes, 34 —— striking proofs adduced, 35 , 36 Imports and Exports to and from the Port of London, abstract of ( table ), 215 , 216 —— of Sugar and Rum for a year to March 25, 1799, 234 ,
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

I pictured the fellow to myself trudging over the stony slopes and scrambling down wild ravines with my letter to Doña Rita in his pocket.
— from The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad

Whenever the play is produced the following notice must appear on all programs, printing and advertising for the play: "Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French of New York."
— from The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The first town at which this considerable Court stopped was at Boulogne, in Picardy, the fortifications of which were being repaired.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 6 by Madame de Montespan

The Jewish authorities were perfectly right in perceiving this fact.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

Rambling over the cloud-capt mountains one morning—a morning big with the fate of moor-game and your friend—from the ridge of a precipice I beheld, to me, the most delicious game in the hospitable globe, a brace of females, unattended, and, by the stile of their dress, though far removed from the vulgar, yet such as did not bespeak them of our world.—I drew out my glass to take a nearer ken, when such beauties shot from one in particular, that fired my soul, and ran thrilling through every vein.
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

Beside the direct recovery of gold from gold mining, a great deal is obtained from its association with iron, copper, silver, lead and zinc sulphides, in which it is included in particles too fine to be visible, but in quantities large enough to be separated from the other metals after they are smelted.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis