Instead of defending the sepulchre of Christ, he involved the church and state in a metaphysical controversy for the unity of his will; and while Heraclius crowned the offspring of his second nuptials, he was tamely stripped of the most valuable part of their inheritance.
— 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

Refreshed, delighted, invigorated, I walked along, forgetting all my cares, feeling as if I had wings to my feet, and could go at least forty miles without fatigue, and experiencing a sense of exhilaration to which I had been an entire stranger since the days of early youth.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Or a barrister—or a man cramming for an examination."
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then straight a mighty cry from those Who followed Ráma's car arose, Who saw their monarch fainting there Beneath that grief too great to bear.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It contains that assertion which so many critics forget, that he has 'cause and will and strength and means to do it.'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Guicciardini, a man most unapt to believe lies, relates how that Ferdinand his father's ghost who before had died for grief, came and told him, that he could not resist the French King, he thought every man cried France, France; the reason of it (saith Cominseus) was because he was a vile tyrant, a murderer, an oppressor of his subjects, he bought up all commodities, and sold them at his own price, sold abbeys to Jews and Falkoners; both Ferdinand his father, and he himself never made conscience of any committed sin; and to conclude, saith he, it was impossible to do worse than they did.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Drawn by M. Catenacci, from a Sketch by M. Mouhot.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

The maid came forward and put a bowl to her lips.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On Friday, March 24, I met him at the LITERARY CLUB, where were Mr. Beauclerk, Mr. Langton, Mr. Colman, Dr. Percy, Mr. Vesey, Sir Charles Bunbury, Dr. George Fordyce, Mr. Steevens, and Mr. Charles Fox.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The furniture was of mahogany, covered with leather, in the old-fashioned style of 1820; the floor was not even stained, but everything was shining with cleanliness, and there were many choice flowers in the windows; the most sumptuous thing in the room at the moment was, of course, the beautifully decorated table.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

General Sherman was a graduate of West Point, and while still a young man had served with marked credit for some twelve years in the army.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

On the field, we took our place in front, near Sir Hugh and the ladies with the colours; and after some salutations, according to the fashion of the army, Sir Hugh made a speech to the men, and then Miss Maria Montgomerie came forward, with her sister Miss Eliza, and the other ladies, and the banners were unfurled, all glittering with gold, and the king’s arms in needlework.
— from The Annals of the Parish Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt

Thus, on the whole, we may claim for our system a certain demonstrable character, which helps to simplify the problems of mythology, and to remove them from the realm of fanciful guesses and conflicting etymological conjectures into that of sober science.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

The four little reception-rooms, or boudoirs, were so many cabinets for treasures, and on the night of the ball, like the rest of the rooms on this floor, were entirely without further adornment; only the white marble of the spiral stair was festooned with crimson roses; and the narrow hall that led from the rotunda to the new ballroom was dressed in imitation of a long arbor of grape-vines, and hung with clusters of hot-house grapes and Chinese lanterns.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"It's a journey that's lain on my conscience for some time," he argued.
— from The Lost Explorers: A Story of the Trackless Desert by Alexander MacDonald

The captain stood by the ballot box, and up came the file, Major Conners first and Captain Blossom following.
— from The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

So Jean made chocolate for Derry as she had made it on that first night for his father.
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

3. To state the matter somewhat differently, and perhaps to exhibit the argument in a more convincing form:—The Canons of Eusebius , and the so-called “ Ammonian Sections ,” —(by which, confessedly, nothing else whatever is meant but the Sections of Eusebius ,)—are discovered mutually to imply one another.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon