He likewise erected a new temple in the Capitol to Jupiter Custos, and a forum, which is now called Nerva’s 805 , as also the temple of the Flavian family 806 , a stadium 807 , an odeum 808 , and a naumachia 809 ; out of the stone dug from which, the sides of the Circus Maximus, which had been burnt down, were rebuilt. VI.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

For St. Paul, speaking of the Resurrection (1 Cor. 15.) understandeth it onely of the Resurrection to Life Eternall; and not the Resurrection to Punishment.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

low enough and not too low, style easy, rather colloquial (over and over again saying "you" to Whitman who sat opposite,) sometimes markedly impassion'd, once or twice humorous—amid his whole speech, from interior fires and volition, pulsating and swaying like a first-class Andalusian dancer.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But a neighbour of mine, a very ancient lady, telleth me that, according to that which she heard, when a child, both the one and the other were true; but that the latter happened, not to Gianni Lotteringhi, but to one Gianni di Nello, who abode at Porta San Piero and was no less exquisite a ninny than the other.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Simcoe's route from York to the Thames; down that river in canoes to Detroit; from thence to the Miamis, to build the fort Lord Dorchester ordered to be built: left York March 1794; returned by Lake Erie and Niagara to York, May 5th, 1794.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Henry and Eleanor, perceiving nothing in her situation likely to engage their father's particular respect, had seen with astonishment the suddenness, continuance, and extent of his attention; and though latterly, from some hints which had accompanied an almost positive command to his son of doing everything in his power to attach her, Henry was convinced of his father's believing it to be an advantageous connection, it was not till the late explanation at Northanger that they had the smallest idea of the false calculations which had hurried him on.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

How Pope Gregory, by letter, exhorted Augustine not to glory in his miracles.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The women and servants that were turned off from their places were likewise employed as nurses to tend the sick in all places, and this took off a very great number of them.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

When you add, that "his manners were thoroughly refined, and his property large enough and not too large for leisure," why, one might almost send a sheriff to arrest him, trusting to this description to make sure of his identity.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"I have lost everything, and now that you know, I only wish to discuss what is to happen to you.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

He had a most fascinating smile and laughing eyes, and now that the immediate danger was over he had forgotten it.
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

At this moment there was but one course for the Italian court to take with the audacious offender, for this new doctrine of the right of exercising private judgment in matters of faith was dangerous to the last extreme, and not to be tolerated for a moment.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Then, at last, the little boy's mamma came out of the house and told him he had played long enough; and neither the red-headed woodpecker nor Fido saw him again that day.
— from A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field

'Oh, it was the left,' I said positively; 'I know it because I remember so particularly thinking how odd it was that it should be the left ear, and not the right!'
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

Then it declares that such is a reproach to a Christian commonwealth, "wherein the least evils are not to be tolerated."
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

Or she might leave Edgar a note to come up to The Witan.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

I returned from Cape Cod last evening, and now take the first opportunity to invite you men of Worcester to this quiet Mediterranean shore.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau