When he came within sight of Jerusalem, the caliph cried with a loud voice, "God is victorious.
— 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

Just then Clairmont came in, and told me an officer wanted to speak to me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Criminal records of Europe and America show many examples of condemned criminals who confessed in all sincerity that some invisible or outside influence led them against their better judgement to commit crime; and very often in such examples the past lives of the condemned are so good as to set up a strong probability in favour of their belief in possession.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Je tiens ce conte de deux de ses compagnes, dignes de foi, qui virent jouer ce mystere' (OEuvres de Brantome, iii. 507).
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

litù v 1 [AB; a12] for joints to crack, crack the joints.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Who would submit to the indignity of being approved by such a woman as Lady Middleton and Mrs. Jennings, that could command the indifference of any body else?"
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Others, escaping by frail boats, joined the Chinese colonists on Formosa.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Laughter, whispering, expectation greeted the later arrivals, who disconsolately joined the curious crowd, and now that they could not get in contented themselves with watching those who did.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

“I tell yer what, stranger, it was years and years before I’d jine the church, ’cause the ministers round in our parts used to preach that the Bible went in for these ere cuttings
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

the Stock-dove , the Speight , the Jay , the Crow , &c., 16.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

We got all news by telephone from Hut Point with reference to the state of the surface on the Great Ice Barrier, as Meares and Dimitri returned on October 15 from a flying journey to Corner Camp and back with depot stores.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

When subordinate clauses beginning with if , though or unless are joined to clauses containing might , could , would or should , the verb were is sometimes used with a singular subject, in such sentences as: If this were true, I should know it.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

By the grace of God Saul believes in Jesus Christ, is baptized, and openly joins the Christian communion governed and taught by the apostles. {108}
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

What can the world judge of a [ 67] poor, contrite old student, full of sinfulness, craving only God's love, who has finally prostrated himself, in great anxiety of heart, at the feet of Jesus, the Crucified, crying, 'O Lord, do not cast away from Thee the poor dog which licks Thy feet, although it stretches still its nostrils to the hideous savours of this world.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Just then China came rattling into the room with the dishes.
— from The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children by Frank Samuel Child

Happily for my reputation as judge, this cause célèbre was positively my last appearance in the rôle.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

Following upon Ghiberti were two great jewellers, Tommaso (commonly called Maso) di Finiguerra and Antonio Pollaiuolo; the former famous for his nielli, the latter for his enamel-work upon relief.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

In the spring and summer of 1918, the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., the New Jersey Terra Cotta Co., both of Perth Amboy, N. J., and the Federal Terra Cotta Co. of Woodbridge, N. J., each built 25,000 of these bombs.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

David Candland Monsieur Glavis ……………………… John T. Caine Col. Damas …………………… John D. T. McAllister Mons.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

General Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate Commander, was badly wounded, and General Lee succeeded him, continuing in command until the war closed.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook