I had put on my nightgown, and removed everything but my stockings, when I heard footsteps approach the door.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

pacis, quae sceleri et parricidio suo nomina indidit; neque aliter rempublicam et belli finem ait, nisi maneat expulsa agris plebes, praeda civilis acerbissima, ius iudiciumque omnium rerum penes se, quod populi Romani fuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A man does not avoid real evils by having visionary pleasures, but besides exposing himself to the real evils quite unprotected, he probably adds fancied evils to them in generous measure.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Hold thee, Cosroe; wear two imperial crowns; Think thee invested now as royally, Even by the mighty hand of Tamburlaine, As if as many kings as could encompass thee With greatest pomp had crown'd thee emperor.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

[1229] It will now be understood why we have never studied the initiation rites by themselves: it is because they are not a ritual entity, but are formed by the conglomeration of rites of different sorts.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The milder temper of his successor declined so dangerous an ambition, which was never afterwards revived, except by the madness of Caligula and Domitian.
— 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

The weather forecasts for the day in the newspaper are read even before the telegraphic despatches of important events.
— from Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology by Robert DeCourcy Ward

In what has been already said of time we referred to it as measured by our ordinary clocks, i.e. reckoning it from noon to midnight and midnight to noon, and regulated entirely by the length of the solar day.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

“It is a religious edifice, inasmuch as it is well calculated to assist in establishing religious impressions, and it is used for the purpose of conveying moral instruction to the hearts of those who enter its walls: and it is not a religious edifice, because it is connected with no mystery, and is no place for monks and priests, grovelling superstitions, and unmeaning ceremonies.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

The small tavern was at the corner on the left, and as Gilda walked rapidly up to the sledge, she saw two of the men who had been escorting her hitherto, the thin man with the abnormally long legs, and the fat one with the red nose and round eyes: but of the third tall, splendid figure she did not catch one glimpse.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Rightly esteemed and rightly directed, patriotism is not a retrograde emotion, but one of the indispensable conditions of progress.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

You must notice and remember every by-road and foot-path.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

New and Revised Edition, by W. Aldis Wright , M.A. 9 vols.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 3 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

New and revised Edition by C. F. Keary, M.A., F.S.A. 6 s. HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English .
— from An Alphabetical List of Books Contained in Bohn's Libraries (1892) by George Bell & Sons