Of the two modern rivals, Savary and Volmey, the one may amuse, the other will instruct.
— 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

Every morning early Siggeir himself sent a messenger into the forest to see whether the Volsungs were still living, and every morning the man returned saying a monster had come during the night and had devoured one of the princes, leaving nothing but his bones.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

I come to you with such joy, such rapture, and all of a sudden I have to disclose all the joy of my heart, all my rapture struggling across the bed, in an undignified way....
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The MS. reads: "Sullen and slow the rivals bold Loosed at his hest their desperate hold, But either still on other glared," etc. 795.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

This said, they made ready supper, and, of extraordinary besides his daily fare, were roasted sixteen oxen, three heifers, two and thirty calves, three score and three fat kids, four score and fifteen wethers, three hundred farrow pigs or sheats soused in sweet wine or must, eleven score partridges, seven hundred snipes and woodcocks, four hundred Loudun and Cornwall capons, six thousand pullets, and as many pigeons, six hundred crammed hens, fourteen hundred leverets, or young hares and rabbits, three hundred and three buzzards, and one thousand and seven hundred cockerels.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Barrington Isle is, in many respects, singularly adapted to careening, refitting, refreshing, and other seamen's purposes.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

If our opponent does not care for our mode of attack, and will not answer still more rudely, so as to plunge us into the ignoble rivalry of the Avantage , we are the victors and honor is on our side.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

May I rely upon that?" "You may, Robert," said Alicia, resolutely.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Whatever doubts some of Croke's language might raise, standing alone, the fact remains indisputable, that for nearly a century from Woodlife's Case the liability of carriers for loss of goods, whether the custom of the realm or the defendant's common calling was alleged or not, was placed upon the authority and was intended to be decided on the principle of Southcote's Case.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

No; you might dairy in earnest—an' a dawg's life it is; or you might run sheep an' a few calves.
— from 'Possum by Mary Grant Bruce

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— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

Faraday was not satisfied to go back to the book-shop, even with all this kindly patronage, but there was nothing else for it, and so for a time he continued at his duties and spent his spare moments reading science and his evenings at scientific lectures, or in remaking the experiments he had seen and others suggested by them, and above all in rewriting the notes that he had taken.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

[248] This would naturally mean, “Most reverend sir, art thou still saying, or, dost thou still say Mass?” which seems somewhat irrelevant.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

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— from Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

The Governor of R---- may return such answer as he sees fit.
— from No Surrender by E. Werner

Like most trades based upon chemical principles, the manufacture of ultramarine has recently made rapid strides, and some of the latest developments are recorded in a paper by J. Wunder, appearing in a recent number of the Chemiker Zeitung , which is worthy of some attention.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

For my part I am persuaded that the slaughter of their parents is either not true at all, or not alwaies (although I doubt not but that nature hath right well prouided to inhibit their superfluous increase by some meanes or other) and so much the rather am I led herevnto, for that I gather by Nicander, that of all venemous worms the viper onelie bringeth out hir yoong aliue, and therefore is called in Latine "Vipera quasi viuipara:" but of hir owne death he dooth not (to my remembrance) saie any thing.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison