The same applies to the position and exact limits of register (chest voice, middle and head voice in women; chest voice, mixed voice and falsetto in men).
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Yet the victory of the Franks was complete and final; Aquitain was recovered by the arms of Eudes; the Arabs never resumed the conquest of Gaul, and they were soon driven beyond the Pyrenees by Charles Martel and his valiant race.
— 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

Page 280 —Caviar amended to Caviare—"Caviare, see STYRIO " Page 282 —mussle amended to mussel—"... any hollow vessel resembling a mussel shell ..." Page 283 —maitre amended to maître—"... to the PRINCEPS COQUORUM, the “maître d’hôtel” of the establishment ..." Page 284 —tumeric amended to turmeric—"CURCUMA ZEODARIA, turmeric" Page 284 —Destillation amended to Distillation and entry moved to proper place in the Index—"Distillation, see Vinum " Page 286 —illustratios amended to illustrations—"... on which the CRATICULA stood.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Margaret told her mother every particular of her London life, to all of which Mrs. Hale listened with interest, sometimes amused and questioning, at others a little inclined to compare her sister's circumstances of ease and comfort with the narrower means at Helstone vicarage.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

His sagacious mind explored the deepest questions of morals and metaphysics, and he ventured to urge eighteen arguments against the Christian doctrine of the creation of the world.
— 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

After Mrs. Weller and the red-nosed gentleman had commented on this inhuman usage in a very forcible manner, and had vented a variety of pious and holy execrations against its authors, the latter recommended a bottle of port wine, warmed with a little water, spice, and sugar, as being grateful to the stomach, and savouring less of vanity than many other compounds.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But the discovery was made; and Henry VIII scattered Becket’s bones as easily as Tracy had scattered his brains.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[Pg 61] be secondary to the great institutions which make up the strength of states in encouraging the cultivation of the manly and heroic virtues.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Their adversaries might allege the words of the fathers of Constantinople, who profess themselves the slaves of the king; and they might relate, with malicious joy, how the decrees of Chalcedon had been inspired and reformed by the emperor Marcian and his virgin bride.
— 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

Dear Mr. Playfair's words are engraven on my memory, and his very last letter repeats them.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

The strangeness of being beside her, not having yet scanned her face, marvelling at her voice—that was like and unlike the Renee of old, full of her, but in another key, a mellow note, maturer—made the ride magical to Beauchamp, planting the past in the present like a perceptible ghost.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 3 by George Meredith

The first half of the afternoon was devoted to cricket, which, I really believe, the colonel enjoyed as [249] much as his visitors; it recalled his old school days, and he had many a tale to tell of matches played fifty years ago on the fields at Eton by boys who had since made their mark in life.
— from Bosom Friends: A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil

In Egypt, whose supplies of silver apparently came from Cilicia, it maintained a higher value than gold until the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty, or about the period of the fall of Knossos; but then and thereafter its value fell, owing to increasing supplies, below that of the more precious metal.
— from The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie

The big fellow then, seeing his rival’s helpless condition, roused himself, and a moment afterwards he vigorously attacked the creature that lay gorged in the corner.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various

He always strikes me as having very refined tastes.
— from The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil

“Ten shillings!” says the Master, and his voice sobers a bit; “make it two pounds, and he's yours.”
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis