I saw, notwithstanding, lately at Mussidan, a place not far from my house, that those who were driven out thence by our army, and others of their party, highly complained of treachery, for that during a treaty of accommodation, and in the very interim that their deputies were treating, they were surprised and cut to pieces: a thing that, peradventure, in another age, might have had some colour of foul play;
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Simeonova , a celebrated tragic actress, who retired from the stage in early life and married a Prince Gagarine.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

She had his companionship no longer; I esteemed it a duty to supply its lack, as much as possible, with mine: an inefficient substitute; for I could only spare two or three hours, from my numerous diurnal occupations, to follow her footsteps, and then my society was obviously less desirable than his.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

All families retrenched their living as much as possible, as well those that fled as those that stayed; so that an innumerable multitude of footmen, serving-men, shopkeepers, journeymen, merchants' bookkeepers, and such sort of people, and especially poor maid-servants, were turned off, and left friendless and helpless, without employment and without habitation, and this was really a dismal article.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Alfonso Churchill THEY laughed at me as "Prof. Moon," As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst Of knowing about the stars.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Finally, at the end of his life, Ambrogio made a panel at Monte Oliveto di Chiusuri with great credit to himself, and a little afterwards, being eighty-three years of age, he passed happily and in the Christian faith to a better life.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

To his friends and soldiers the philosophic hero appeared in a more amiable light; and his virtues were never more conspicuously displayed, than in the last and most active period of his life.
— 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

Isolated efforts, necessity for, 95 Issues, distinct, raised at election times, 75 J Jerusalem, Blake’s Resolution, 20 K Kidd, Mr. Benj., on antagonism between interests of society and of individual, 117 Krapotkin, Prince, Fields, farms, and workshops, 31 L Labour leaders, a programme for, 90 — saving machinery, object lesson in, 55 Land compared with other wealth forms, 118 , 122 Landlord, Average man a potential, 124 ; landlords will become divided into two camps, 135 , 136 ; their Nemesis, 147 Landlord’s rent, meaning of term, 35 ; insignificant amount in Garden City, 39 Land system may be attacked without attacking individuals, 28 , 124 , 135 Large farms, 25 Laundries, 82 Lawn tennis courts, 63 Leases contain favourable covenants, 40 Liberty, Principles of, fully observed, 26 , 87 , 96 , 112 , 141 Library Public, 22 ; diagram, 3 ; cost, 58 , 62 Lighting, 25 , 26 , 66 Local option and shopping, 77 ; its effects on prices, quality, and wages, 80 ; it diminishes risks, 80 ; reduces working expenses, 82 ; checks sweating, 83 ; application to liquor traffic, 84 Local Self-government, Problem of, solved, 72 London, Growth of, Lord Rosebery on, 11 ; high rents, 28 , 144 ; their impending fall, 144 ; sewerage system “unalterably settled,” 33 ; area too small for its population, 38 ; growth chaotic, 52 ; Garden City contrasted with, 51 ; cost of its school sites and buildings compared with Garden City, 48 ; cost of dwellings contrasted, 53 , 54 ; excessive number of shops, 81 ; want of railroad system, 131 ; contrast with Garden City’s system, 130 ; its future, chap.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

A RAGE, HE BEATETH HER AND RECOUNTETH TO HIS COMPANIONS THAT WHICH THEY KNOW BETTER THAN HE Pamfilo having made an end of his story, at which the ladies had laughed so much that they laugh yet, the queen bade Elisa follow on, who, still laughing, began, "I know not, charming ladies, if with a little story of mine, no less true than pleasant, I shall succeed in making you laugh as much as Pamfilo hath done with his; but I will do my endeavor thereof.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It's a strange thing—sometimes when I'm quite alone, sitting in my room with my eyes closed, or walking over the hills, the people I've seen and known, if it's only been for a few days, are brought before me, and I hear their voices and see them look and move almost plainer than I ever did when they were really with me so as I could touch them.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Do not pass through the frequented streets, but move along the dark lanes as much as possible.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful Labour as much as possible in the dark Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes Marble lives longer than man May change his habitations six times in the month—yet be home Men and women, old men and children are no more Military diplomacy Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage More vain than ambitious
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Indeed, one of the difficulties of aquarium management is to avoid this excessive vegetation by limiting the light as much as possible, and yet leave sufficient illumination for the observation of the animals.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

{280} There is no doubt that the Federal leaders are making a powerful effort to rally their party on the same ground.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

For long ages men, and particularly women, have insisted upon making themselves absurd and uncomfortable, at great cost and in an infinite variety of ways, in obedience to dictates or impulses springing from nobody knows where, and have only consented to forego each succeeding caprice when the taste for it has worn itself out and has given place to another, perhaps still more preposterous than its predecessor.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Kyūbei laughed, and made answer, "Perhaps we can find out by marking it."
— from Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn

Of course, until the book is done, I must live as much as possible in the Highlands, and that suits my book as to health.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The contents of the volume were made to do service, first, as a series of twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute, addressed to a large and mixed audience, possessing generally a high average of intelligence, and exhibiting, by their voluntary presence, an interest on which a lecturer may largely rely.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various