66 About four years after the victorious Toulun had assumed the title of Khan of the Geougen, another Barbarian, the haughty Rhodogast, or Radagaisus, 67 marched from the northern extremities of Germany almost to the gates of Rome, and left the remains of his army to achieve the destruction of the West.
— 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

On the left hand is Galde street, which reacheth west to a stone cross, over against the north end of Golden lane, [281] and so to the end of Goswell street.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Then lower is Maiden lane, which runneth west to the north end of Gutherons lane, and up the said lane on the east side thereof, till against Kery lane, and back again: then the said Maiden lane, on the north side, goeth up to Staining lane, and up a part thereof, on the east side, to the farthest north part of Haberdashers’ hall, and back again to Wood street; [261] and there lower down to Silver street, which is of this ward, till ye come to the east end of St. Olave’s church, on the south side, and to Munkes
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It was the first time I had ever told anyone the exact truth, so far as I understood it, and it did me no end of good, for it straightened out the thing in my own mind.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

The splendidly mounted masses of Moslem soldiers swept round the north end of Genessaret, burning and destroying as they came, and pitched their camp in front of the opposing lines.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In these circumstances, the rent of a great landed estate might, upon ordinary occasions, very well defray all the necessary expenses of government.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

thou art overbold, A Forester’s son may not eat off gold.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Besides, he has no end of great hampers from home, with wine and game in them; so he toadied and fed himself into favour.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

“A knowledge of the sacred books would do you no end of good.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

I did not need Egypt or Greece.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Sunshine was beyond the upper limits of the cloud; but this was no sooner reached than the balloon, escaping from the uprush, plunged down several hundred feet, only to be whirled up again, and this reciprocal motion was repeated eight or ten times during an interval of twenty minutes, in all of which time no expenditure of gas or discharge of ballast enabled the aeronaut to regain any control over his vessel.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

As freshmen, the nobler element of girls had made some effort to stem the rising tide of snobbishness in their class.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Freshman by Josephine Chase

For this purpose Fireships well managed will be found very useful; I should therefore think that, at all the King's Ports, and at all places where the Enemy may be expected to attempt a landing with Ships of War or other large Vessels, considerable quantities of materials for fitting Fireships according to the latest method should be kept ready to be put on board any small Vessels on the Enemy's approach; but, as such Vessels would have little or no effect on Gunboats or Flatboats, machines might be made for the purpose of destroying them, by shot, and by explosion.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

He spoke these last words in a livelier tone than usual, but it was like the last kindling of the taper in its oil-less socket — for instantly the paleness of death overspread his face, and after a feeble effort to vomit, with convulsions, the natural effect of great loss of blood, he sunk back and expired.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

With R T .'s wish for a new edition of Gray, "with the parallel passages annexed," I cordially coincide.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But there was no natural engagement on God to return a reward to him; for man could return nothing of his own but that only which he had received from his Creator.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

(nominal) engine of good type is sufficient for Huntingdon mill, rock breaker, self-feeder and steam pump.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

The legend that Luther first translated the Bible into German vanishes before a list of the numerous editions of German Bibles printed during the fifty years previous to his undertaking.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

“It is so nice of you to go, Phil; it will do you no end of good.
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade