He moreover tells us, "His skill in legislation and agriculture is much praised" (p. 499).
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Four runners, whose liveries were decorated with metal plates, preceded him, as also did a wheel-chair in which rode his favorite, a withered, blear eyed slave, even more repulsive looking than his master.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

[page 25] hus * hath my penne presum'd to please my friend— Oh mightst thou lykewise please Apollo's eye .
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

Señora doña Perfecta, señor D. Inocencio, por el alma de mi padre, por el alma de mi abuelo, por la salvación de la mía, juro que deseo morir.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

DAVID McKAY, Publisher, Philadelphia, Formerly published by Charles De Silver & Sons.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Besides, it is impossible to conceal from ourselves, upon mature reflection, that in the present marvellous activity of business and the great abundance of money, we are drawing largely on the future, and maintaining present prosperity at the cost of burdens which will weigh heavily both on ourselves and on coming generations.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

In short, everybody seemed to be there, and all had something to do, and were doing it with all their might, except a party of drunken recruits for the Western military posts, principally Irish and Scotch, though they wore Uncle Sam's gray jacket and trousers.
— from Sketches from Memory (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leaving Peking for the Eastern Tombs you go for the first two or three hours along a paved way of magnificent proportions, planned and laid out as a great highway should be.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

So he took upon him the management of public affairs, and of the kingdom which had been kept for him by one that was the principal of the Chaldeans, and he received the entire dominions of his father, and appointed, that when the captives came, they should be placed as colonies, in the most proper places of Babylonia; but then he adorned the temple of Belus, and the rest of the temples, in a magnificent manner, with the spoils he had taken in the war.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

PHONSIE: You bet I have, and my popper put them there, too.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

I'm afraid that's quite of a piece with the calm confidence we have in our own superiority, although I daresay I should never have realised it if it weren't for Mr. Potter Parker and his perky nose.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

16, p. 133; also Missouri Persecutions , p. 179.)
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts