Jean Cointet passed for a good fellow and acted the generous part.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

His adversaries unwillingly consenting, a blind man of the English race was brought, who having been presented to the British bishops, found no benefit or healing from their ministry; at length, Augustine, compelled by strict necessity, bowed his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying that He would restore his lost sight to the blind man, and by the bodily enlightenment of one kindle the grace of spiritual light in the hearts of many of the faithful.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Dead-heat , when two horses run home so exactly equal that the judge cannot place one before the other; consequently, a DEAD-HEAT is a heat which counts for nothing, so far as the even runners are concerned, as it has to be run over again.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

She sat down with the jewels upon her; and they again indulged in conjectures as to where Jonathan could possibly be with their baggage.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Mourzoufle was received with smiles and honors in the camp of his father Alexius; but the wicked can never love, and should rarely trust, their fellow-criminals; he was seized in the bath, deprived of his eyes, stripped of his troops and treasures, and turned out to wander an object of horror and contempt to those who with more propriety could hate, and with more justice could punish, the assassin of the emperor Isaac and his son.
— 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

THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY VOLUME I (of II) By Henry James Contents PREFACE
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Shannon, W. Brattin, J. Colter, P. Wiser, W. Labieche & P. Shabono one of our interpreters & York.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

With heartfelt joy Cardinal Pole pronounced it without delay, first at a meeting of the Parliament in the palace, then with greater solemnity at S. Paul's at a high mass attended by the Court with a brilliant suite; among those present were the knights who wore the Burgundian order of the Golden Fleece, and those who wore the English Order of the Garter.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

Bark!'” “Did he really, Jasper?” cried Phronsie, delighted beyond measure; and clasping her hands in rapture, “all alone by himself?”
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Here the Jewish community purchased his freedom from slavery for 100 dollars, and after six months sent him home.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“Do you want Jean to be elected Junior Class president?”
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

In the dedication to Sir Julius Cæsar, prefixed to the first-named work, the writer speaks of having "once belonged to the Innes of Court ," and says he was "no usuall poetizer, but, to barre idlenesse, imployed that little talent the Muses conferr'd upon him in this little tract."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various

On the 7th of September, 1303, this James Colonna, [Pg 238] with other persons in King Philip's service, appeared at Anagni with an armed force, and made their way to the pope's palace.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

" Professor Briggs saw clearly that the Bible was the product, the growth of many centuries; that legends and facts, mistakes, contradictions, miracles, myths and history, interpolations, prophecies and dreams, wisdom, foolishness, justice, cruelty, poetry and bathos were mixed, mingled and interwoven.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

So desperate was the situation becoming that Henry Cooke, brother of Jay Cooke, put his chief dependence, in a letter to his brother, on “an unfailing confidence in the God in Whom we put our trust.”
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various