He united the qualifications of a poet, a soldier, and a saint: his wisdom still breathes in a collection of moral and religious sayings; and every antagonist, in the combats of the tongue or of the sword, was subdued by his eloquence and valor.
— 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

Manuscript also reads sensualtie, as the metre requires. 493 father] So also 1673.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade, and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing Bets wilting in the sun.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Hence, every stone, making a ringing sound as it falls, will give warning that we have gone one mile.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The vulgar herd of the cities and the country would have gladly submitted to a mild and regular servitude; and the transient disorders of war would have been obliterated by some years of industry and peace.
— 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

[To CHARLES] To say the truth, it is your policy To save your subjects from such massacre And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they chuse and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The window was partly open; the lamp was lighted; I could watch her every movement without her being able to see me; but, had I gone away, I must have made a rustling sound among the bushes, she would have heard me, and might have thought that I had been hiding there in order to spy upon her.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Instantaneous thoughts darted through his mind of tethering his horse, and making a reconnaissance, safely and unseen, with the science of stalking brute or man that he had learned of his friends the Sioux.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

STATEMENT OF MR. A. R. SERVEN, ATTORNEY FOR THE MUSIC PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION—Continued.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

He made a regular speech after the Indian manner, extolling the power, wealth, and generosity of the white men.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Sew up stuffed meat and roast same as Roast Veal.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

This is no question of mere health, and symmetry of make, and reasonable strength, as with the [p.197] ordinary citizen.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them.
— from The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

According to this curve, woman's vitality rises during the few days before menstruation, sinks to its lowest ebb during menstruation and rises shortly after, and then runs nearly level till it begins to rise [31] again before the next menstrual period.
— from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Marie Carmichael Stopes