According to the acceptation, in which I understand the term, we may account for so many places in the east being styled Petra.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

I presume that this Marco Polo is the same that is noticed in our Appendix B , II.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A light and active body of Barbarian horse, disengaged from their infantry and baggage, might perform in eight or ten days a march of three hundred miles from the Hellespont to the Danube; 38 the garrisons of that important frontier had been gradually annihilated; the river, in the month of December, would be deeply frozen; and the unbounded prospect of Scythia was opened to the ambition of Gainas.
— 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

Gikapúyan (gikápuy) kug pamínaw sa íyang mga panghambug, I have grown tired of his bragging.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now for my part I mean not to go thither; but thou, an thou have a mind to know thy servant's fidelity, thou mayst lightly do it by donning a gown and a veil of mine and going down yonder to wait and see if he will come thither, as I am assured he will.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Most people, I believe, will naturally, without premeditation, assent to the definition of the elegant and judicious poet: Virtue (for mere good-nature is a fool)
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

But as I had embarked upon this Berlin enterprise in contradiction to all my inmost wishes, and prompted solely by the desire of winning the success so vital to my position, I made up my mind to make a personal appeal to Rellstab.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

mister printter I must goue sum fourder I have got one good pen my fortin has bin hard very hard that is I have hard Noks on my head 4 difrent times from A boy to this Day twice taken up for dead two beating was a Lawyer then he was mad be Case the peopel at Large Declared me Lord Dexter king of Chester this at my Contrey seet 26 mils from N Port my plase there is the fist from solt water to Canedy——this Lawyer that broused me was Judg Livermore son Arther the same Creater borid 200 dolors sum monts be fore
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

I was sick of my own country, and not much prepossessed in favour of any other; but I 'drag on' 'my chain' without 'lengthening it at each remove.'
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

Every province in France, we are informed by the eloquent pedantry of Gregoire, exhibits traces of these modern Huns, which, though now exclusively attributed to the agents of Robespierre and Mr. Pitt,* it is very certain were authorized by the decrees of the Convention, and executed under the sanction of Deputies on mission, or their subordinates.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

[20] He took the opposite chair and the meal proceeded in silence, broken only by the wail of the wind and the crackle of the little dry twigs that burned on the hearth.
— from The Way of the Wind by Zoé Anderson Norris

What about all the married people in the towns and the things they did?
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Since the force of the conclusion is largely lost unless the major premise is an absolute truth recognized by everybody, there is danger of confusion, and no possibility of convincing the prospect by such methods.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

I see now how much more pleasure I might have given, and I would give anything if you would do what they say is impossible— i.e. profit by some one else's experience, and try to show your affection for your mother.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

"I don't go to dances, Billy," said Mr. March; "perhaps I'll give the suit away: that'll save all trouble."
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

The Floods along the Potomac—The National Capital Submerged—A Terrible Record in Maryland—Gettysburg a Sufferer—Tidings of Devastation from Many Points in Several States, 444 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

“But, Mr. Porter,” I observed, “they say murder will out.”
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells