The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable row.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Thus circumstanced, with the assistance of this dear friend, I effected my departure from Paris, and, not long after, I returned to Scotland.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The former part of this institution, as long as it remained in vigour, seems to have been productive of nothing but disorder and confusion, and to have tended equally to corrupt the morals both of the clergy and of the people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As regards the external relations of nations, a state cannot be asked to give up its constitution, even although that be a despotism (which is, at the same time, the strongest constitution where foreign enemies are concerned), so long as it runs the risk of being immediately swallowed up by other states.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Now that there is a greater firmness and solidity in the conceptions, which are the objects of conviction and assurance, than in the loose and indolent reveries of a castle-builder, every one will readily own.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He prohibited young boys from running in the Lupercalia; and in respect of the Secular games, issued an order, that no young persons of either sex should appear at any public diversions in the night-time, unless in the company of some elderly relation.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Yet they continued to reign over the East, from the Danube to the Nile and Tigris; the Gothic and Vandal kingdoms of Italy and Africa were subverted by the arms of Justinian; and the history of the Greek emperors may still afford a long series of instructive lessons, and interesting revolutions.
— 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

Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde; but the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

But it is infamy during life, and indelible reproach, to return alive from a battle where their Prince was slain.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

Natty passed the place that was so freely taken by his red companion, and seated himself on one end of a log that was lying near the fire, where he continued, with his rifle standing between his legs, absorbed in reflections seemingly of no very pleasing nature.
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

Once Central Asia was thought to be a very rich country, that would bring in large and increasing revenues to the government; but this has been found to be very far indeed from the case; and in the writer's opinion, could the Russian government but have known fifteen years ago as much about the interior of Asia as is known now, they would probably have hesitated long before making any movement in that direction.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 684 February 3, 1877 by Various

After many traverses, she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falls in love, and is ready to get another child, and all this in two hours' space: which how absurd it is in sense, even sense may imagine, and art hath taught, and all ancient examples justified: and at this day the ordinary players in Italy will not err in.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

He was in love—or thought he was, which has been said to be the same thing—and he wanted to see the girl he loved; and I resolved to aid him in the matter.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

As autumn passed into winter, the Glen noticed that the doctor's hair had turned grey, and that his manner had lost all its roughness.
— from A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 4 by Ian Maclaren

Curiously enough, it is of this last that his reminiscences are most lively, and its recollections are evidently cherished more lovingly than those of foreign lands.
— from Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News" by Toronto News

Her first inclination was to laugh, toss down some leaves, and instantly reveal herself; the next she drew back hastily, and began to listen with all her ears.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

[32] "Unless he admired the launch and wanted a closer look at it," Rick added.
— from Smugglers' Reef: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

It would be difficult to say whether the king, the queen, or the royal relations, proved the greatest scourges to Britain during the long and impotent reign of Henry III.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss