That's Rome, and not even the whole of Rome, it's false—those are the worst of the Catholics, the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!...
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The vanquished nations, blended into one great people, resigned the hope, nay, even the wish, of resuming their independence, and scarcely considered their own existence as distinct from the existence of Rome.
— 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

Her Majesty's Ministers have persevered in exercising that self-command and that self-restraint which impatience may mistake for indifference, feebleness or cowardice, but which are truly the crowning greatness of a great people, and which do not evince the want of readiness to vindicate, when the time comes, the honor of this country."
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

The Tsar could not endure the ways of refinement and luxury, and preferred to sleep on the floor rather than in a grand bed, and loved to drink quantities of English beer, which he condescended to admire.
— from Boris the Bear-Hunter by Frederick Whishaw

Not enough to waste on ruined castles, but a mighty good income none the less.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

And in this charming New Englander, the wife of Roger's best friend, sympathetic, tender, with a touch in her of the nun and the saint, Lady Barnes could not help trying to find a supporter.
— from Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I think there may have been a nunnery, because London did not escape the wave of religious revival, and also because one was necessary for the education of girls.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

If the limitation of his forces does not permit him to do good without inflicting pain or some other inconvenience, he acquiesces in this, but only regretfully, and he never employs this way of rendering service when he can render it without mingling any kind of evil in his favours.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

And she began to understand why Roaring Bill made no effort to watch or restrain her.
— from North of Fifty-Three by Bertrand W. Sinclair

There were no bird-calls, no sounds of insects, not even the whisper of running water, for the river was locked deep beneath its icy armor.
— from The Winds of Chance by Rex Beach