I must have something that I can term exclusively my own by this foray of ours, and I have fixed on the lovely Jewess as my peculiar prize.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

ix.;) and Æneas Sylvius, who objects to this new demand, could not foresee, that in a few years he should ascend the throne, and imbibe the maxims, of Boniface VIII.
— 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

Slocum has orders to be at Robertsville to-morrow, prepared to move on Barnwell.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He unbraced successively each of six minus one braced trouser buttons, arranged in pairs, of which one incomplete.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

All this astonished me beyond measure, and I had an attack of palpitation like that which overcame me once before in the presence of the Sultan of India, when he showed me something of the same kind.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

My first real venture was the "Long Islander," in my own beautiful town of Huntington, in 1839.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The mantle of Bertha did not cover more tenderness when it fell to the shoulders of Mary.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Natalhungan ang ákung sibuyasan sa mga ságing, My onion bed is in the shadow of the banana plants.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At thirty miles above the mouth of Black River the water extends from Natchez on the Mississippi across to the pine hills of Louisiana, a distance of seventy-three miles, and there is hardly a spot that is not ten feet under it.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It is true, that citizens of this country as a matter of business are engaged in manufacturing and selling to individuals, from whatever country they may come, munitions of war, as citizens of Germany, Austria, and other belligerent countries have done since time immemorial.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

According to orders, Colonel Dudley landed with the specified force, rushed the batteries, which were manned only by a few gunners, and spiked the guns.
— from Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada by Ethel T. Raymond

This time it was decided by the English authorities not to allow the fame of English cricket to depend on the result of one match only, but on the best of three, and [318] accordingly three matches were arranged to be played between England and Australia, one at Manchester, the second at Lord’s, and the third at the Oval.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

Mr. Otis' books are too well known to require any particular commendation to the young.
— from The Young Salesman by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Some went to the edge of the gorge and saw below a mass of buckled tin, irrecoverable, and worthless.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

From the Scriptures already quoted on the necessity, object and mode of baptism, we may deduce the conclusion that the ordinance established to follow and go with faith and repentance, and which constitutes the third principle of the gospel, is baptism by immersion for the remission of sins.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

There is one circumstance I would like to mention here: that was, that when, for convenience' sake, my visits were made late in the day, I did not find the plants abundant, still could always get enough to demonstrate their presence; but when my visits were timed so as to come in the early morning, when the dew was on, there was no difficulty whatever in finding multitudes of beautiful and well developed plants.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

Like many other birds, he has discovered that the farmer is his friend.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Through her magnificent industrial education system she has trained millions of boys to take the vacant stools and stands in shop and mill.
— from The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson