Note 78 ( return ) [ Quae paulo ante arida et siti anhelantia visebantur, ea nunc perlui, mundari, madere; Fora, Deambulacra, Gymnasia, laetis et gaudentibus populis frequentari; dies festos, et celebrari veteres, et novos in honorem principis consecrari, (Mamertin.
— 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

It made me feel dreadfully insignificant.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Meanwhile my father decided to send me to Manila with my brother Paciano.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

They are a sort of dream-fighting; much ado; great battling, and little bloodshed; mighty means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innoxious, than many of those more serious games of life, which men play, without esteeming them to be such.—
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Madame M—— F—— did not take a ticket, but she allowed me to take tickets for her daughters, who were in high glee, since for ten or twelve guineas they got articles worth sixty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

marco , m. , frame; doorcase, windowcase.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In this way we had progressed to within about a mile of the hills we were endeavoring to reach when Dejah Thoris, from her point of vantage upon the thoat, cried out that she saw a great party of mounted men filing down from a pass in the hills several miles away.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And in the land of Macedonia men find diamonds also.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

,” said the Princess, “I do not allow you to mention my friend disrespectfully.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

"It makes me feel dreadfully wicked to swallow it all without a protest."
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

There, a million million feathery daisies sway and dance in the breeze, lifting their snowy wheels to the blue June sky.
— from Ladies-In-Waiting by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Duwes sometimes used his lessons as a means of conveying to Mary messages from different members of her household.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

CHAPTER XIV The colonel wishing, on account of his mésalliance, to avoid his many military friends, did not stop over at Berlin with Lilly, but went directly on to Dresden, which they reached in three hours.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

This was not likely to be more than mildly exciting, for twenty years of political and financial juggling had fitted Mr. McNally for delicate work.
— from The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

'My master fell down in a fit last night, coming home from the Company's feast.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

Men marked for death believe in life as galley-slaves believe in liberty; this man was bent on being a first-class clerk at any cost.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

“You relieve me,” Mr. Fentolin declared.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim