It was not among a licentious and exasperated populace, that the forms of legal proceedings could be observed; it was not in an amphitheatre, stained with the blood of wild beasts and gladiators, that the voice of compassion could be heard.
— 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

Comme récompense de ces différents sacrifices, le monarque obtendra cet objet le plus cher de ses désirs.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In Singhalese demonolatry there are seven female demons of lust, popularly called the Madana Yaksenyo.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

D'une manière générale, mon humble expérience d'apprentie auteur m'a révélé qu'il n'y a pas de différence entre écrire de la fiction pour le papier ou le pixel: cela demande une concentration maximale, un isolement à la limite désespéré, une patience obsessionnelle dans le travail millimétrique avec la phrase, et bien entendu, en plus de la volonté de faire, il faut avoir quelque chose à dire!
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

2 organization of local Protestant churches of the same denomination.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When I brought my procession of human bats up into the open world and the glare of the afternoon sun—previously blindfolding them, in charity for eyes so long untortured by light—they were a spectacle to look at. Skeletons, scarecrows, goblins, pathetic frights, every one; legitimatest possible children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Other lithographic placards contained in two parallel columns the decree of deposition drawn up by the Right at the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, and the decree of outlawry voted by the Left.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

What of like praise can Bacchus' gifts afford?
— from The Georgics by Virgil

As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the ladder I had placed a kind of trap-door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great noise—as to weapons, I took them all into my side every night.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

With the articles of complaint of the vassals of Deogarh and the short extorted charter, to avoid future cause for such, we may contrast the following: "Pour avoir une idée du brigandage que les nobles exerçaient à l’époque où les premieres chartes furent accordées, il suffit d’en lire quelques-unes, et l’on verra que le seigneur y disait:—‘Je promets de ne point voler, extorquer les biens et les meubles des habitans, de les délivrer des totes ou rapines , et autres mauvaises coutumes , et de ne plus commettre envers eux d’exactions.’—En effet, dans ces tems malheureux, vivres, meubles, chevaux, voitures, dit le savant Abbé de Mably, tout était enlevé par l’insatiable et aveugle avidité des seigneurs" (Art.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

In supremae nocte coenae Recumbens cum fratribus, Observata lege plene Cibis in legalibus, Cibum turbae duodenae Se dat suis manibus.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

Even that conspiracy to defraud Alice out of London property can not be clearly established.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

FOURRER , to serve the cables, as with rounding, keckling, plat, &c. FOURRURE , a general name for service of leather, plat, canvas, or ropes.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

One little poor candle, stuck on a nail in a board, was set in a far corner; and in another corner was a man lying on a mat spread upon the earth floor; and there was nothing else whatever—excepting cobwebs everywhere, and the bad smell, and the old woman, and the Padre himself—in that room.
— from Legends of the City of Mexico by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

So he moved his family into the plains at the foot of the Sierras, where in the town of Lincoln, Placer County, they enjoyed a more genial and happy existence.
— from Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California by Angelo Hall

Not very far from this was formerly a Sioux village of Le Petit Corbeau , or the Little Raven.
— from What Norman Saw in the West by Anonymous

We read of large parties coming down by coach and horseback from Boston, to be entertained at the Quincy mansion.
— from Historic Homes of New England by Mary Harrod Northend

Traditionally, liberal culture has been linked to the notions of leisure, purely contemplative knowledge and a spiritual activity not involving the active use of bodily organs.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The botanical description of Gastromycetes, given by M.C. Cooke, is: “Hymenium more or less permanently concealed, consisting in most cases of closely-packed cells, of which the fertile ones bear naked spores on distinct spicules, exposed only by the rupture or decay of the insisting coat or peridium.’
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

His inculcation of the practice of self-examination, 248 Platonic school, its ideal, i. 322 Platonists, their more or less pantheistic conception of the Deity, i. 163.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky