The genius of Cicero and Virgil was more sensibly felt, as each revolving age had been found incapable of producing a similar or a second: but the most eminent teachers of the law were assured of leaving disciples equal or superior to themselves in merit and reputation.
— 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 young mother had died, and as the child had been treated like a favorite doll or a very spoiled pet monkey or lap dog ever since the first hour of her life, she was a very appalling little creature.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This idea is more or less definitely expressed in the context of all the passages, in the words which are spaced.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

He used to frequent Father Auban's inn, where he would usually drink four or five glasses of brandy, on lucky days eight or ten glasses and even more, according to his mood.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[Enter Othello, Lodovico, Desdemona, Emilia, and Attendants.]
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

= KEY: Open \r.\. SYN: Unclose, lay open, lay Dare expose, explain, disclose, initiate, begin, commence.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

But, indeed, it is nonsense to talk about injuring no one but yourself: it is impossible to injure yourself, especially by such acts as we allude to, without injuring hundreds, if not thousands, besides, in a greater or less, degree, either by the evil you do or the good you leave undone.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In 1711, a German professor of the Oriental languages, Dr. Eisenmenger, published in two large volumes quarto, his "Judaism Discovered," a ponderous labour, of which the scope was to ridicule the Jewish traditions.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

The two [Pg 16] Sisters of Mercy had ceased to tell their beads and sat motionless, their hands buried in their wide sleeves, their eyes obstinately lowered, doubtless engaged in offering back to Heaven the sacrifice of suffering which it sent them.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

I have it on authority that the Government is considering an armistice and the appointment of plenipotentiaries of peace, and the only delay in the way is that the Colonies cannot make peace without France, nor can France make peace without Spain and Holland—and Spain means to make one last desperate effort to regain Gibraltar.
— from The Rock of the Lion by Molly Elliot Seawell

Neither the uneducated maiden whose visions are here relate, nor the excellent Christian writer who had published them in so entire a spirit of literary disinterestedness, ever had the remotest idea of such a thing.
— from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Katharina Emmerich

These "galleys" must not be confounded with the lateen rigged vessels of that name in the south of Europe; being simply [Pg 6] small, low, straight ships of light draught easily moved by oars or sweeps in calms.
— from Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner by Woodes Rogers

Imagine to yourself an abyss, and in its centre an oasis of light, and in this oasis two creatures shut out of life, dazzling each other.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

She was a little old lady, dressed entirely in white, with a jewel low on her forehead.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

But as they committed the imprudence of occasionally sending their daughters to the city, one and another of these secrets of the community, more or less distorted, escaped through the dressing-rooms of the mistresses of these Ammergau maids.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern