But it was he began the quarrel, and not I; and the evil consequences which ensued were entirely of his creating.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

After his education at Paris, he recovered the use of the Bohemian, his native, idiom; and the emperor conversed and wrote with equal facility in French, Latin, Italian, and German, (Struvius, p. 615, 616.)
— 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

You will notice, inscribed above the entrance, cut in the solid stone, "To the Arts and Sciences."
— from Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Lewis W. Leeds

There is not in all Tangiers either cart or carriage; you hear no clang of bell, nor cry of itinerant vendor, nor sound of busy occupation; you see no hasty movement of persons or of things; even Europeans, not knowing what to do with themselves, stay for hours motionless in the square; every thing reposes and invites to repose.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

This gave me a new idea, and to each craftsman, in the vicinity, I showed the particular branch of kindergarten handiwork that might appeal to him, whether laying of patterns, in separate sticks and tablets, weaving, drawing, rudimentary efforts at designing, folding and cutting of paper, or clay modelling.
— from The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

At the same time Nelson took on board his squadron a corps of five thousand, to seize Leghorn, the possession of which, with control of the sea, was not unjustly considered threatening to the communications between the centre of French power, in Northern Italy, and the exposed corps at the foot of the peninsula.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In reality, however, there is not, in all the examples cited, the slightest evidence of genuine love.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

"Something from each of the three Kingdoms of Nature is assigned to each Celestial House, to the end that everything may be done in accordance with sound philosophical rules; and that everything may be thoroughly purified in its proper time and place in order to be presented at the wedding-table of the Spouse and the six virgins who hold the mystic shovel, without a common fire, but with an elementary fire, that comes primarily by attraction , and by digestion in the philosophical bed lighted by the four elements.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Therefore, nobody, I am told, ever cultivates chrysanthemums there.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

If we were to remove it out of our national existence England would not be the great nation that she now is, and the English Church would lose one powerful means of raising the spiritual energies of the people.
— from A Record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead and the Sermon preached after its Restoration, 1879 by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley