These two sets of persons are always thinking of one another; the lower of the higher with envy, the more fortunate of their less happy neighbors with contempt.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

A lot of these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it down enough to make it dismal.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Tagima lies in a latitude of 6 and five-sixths degrees, and is located opposite the headland of Quipit.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

But he’s kind of good—he give me half a fish, once, when there warn’t enough for two; and lots of times he’s kind of stood by me when I was out of luck.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

"I've told him a lot of times he's throwing away his chance."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Just two men remained, their hands plunged deep into their pockets, bending their backs beneath the squall, their woolen caps pulled down over their ears; two big Normandy fishermen, bearded, their skin tanned through exposure, with the piercing black eyes of the sailor who looks over the horizon like a bird of prey.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its recollections, has crumbled to dust also.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince; but, in the discharge of these duties, he finds an ample and immediate recompense.
— 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

Then King Evander, founder of the fortress of Rome: 'In these woodlands dwelt Fauns and Nymphs sprung of the soil, and a tribe of men born of stocks and hard oak; who had neither law nor grace of life, nor did they know to yoke bulls or lay up stores or save their gains, but were nurtured by the forest boughs and the hard living of the huntsman.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Taking this path, he walked leisurely onward, till he came to a small flower-garden, into which three windows opened, their sashes reaching to the ground.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

The secretary of the inquisitor thereupon made a list of the household and called upon them one by one to set their feet on the plate.
— from Japan by David Murray

If the curb-chain be not brought from one hook to the other on the outside of the snaffle, it will interfere with the action of both bits and will pinch the lips of the horse.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

He assured her that the wound was doing perfectly well, and that there was not the slightest danger of any permanent stiffness of the arm; though he laughingly owned that he had made the worst of it to Dora, in order to impress her with caution for the future.
— from Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country by Johanna Spyri

Most certainly he did not think the less of the horrible vision; and when the company had dispersed, and the affectionate couple had retired to rest, he stated the p. 215 circumstance exactly as it had occurred, and received from his fair lady just such an answer as a prudent, intelligent, and discreet woman of sense would give to such a communication.
— from Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gypsy by Anonymous

High over the grain the ryot’s sons kept watch and ward against the thieving parrots in little open thatched houses stuck on the top of a long pole or in the fork of a dead tree.
— from The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Bear-beating and bull-baiting were fashionable at this period, and considered as proper pastimes for the amusement of ladies of the highest rank.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

This brings us to the land of the Houyhnhnms, in which horses, superior and intelligent creatures, are the ruling animals.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

He was a little older than his companion, but if his hair were gray, it did not show very much, as his rather long locks were of a sandy hue and his full face was clean shaven, at least on Wednesdays and Sundays.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton