These men are all woman's righters and preachers of such damnable doctrines and accursed heresies as would make demons of the pit shudder to hear.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

To her bloody deed superstition has attributed a subsequent darkness of seventeen days; during which many vessels in midday were driven from their course, as if the sun, a globe of fire so vast and so remote, could sympathize with the atoms of a revolving planet.
— 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

After dinner Mrs. Crawley had an assembly which was attended by the Duchess (Dowager) of Stilton, Duc de la Gruyere, Marchioness of Cheshire, Marchese Alessandro Strachino, Comte de Brie, Baron Schapzuger, Chevalier Tosti, Countess of Slingstone, and Lady F. Macadam, Major-General and Lady G. Macbeth, and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the treatment of skin disease, dyspepsia, and leprosy, old copper coins are ground to dust, heated till the dust is like ashes, and administered medicinally.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Stevie did not even mutter to himself, but with the special sense of sisterly devotion developed in her earliest infancy, she felt that the boy was very much excited indeed.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

In this way our strength daily diminished, while that of the enemy increased.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

And I was so held, but not by what was visible—rather by the terrors which gather in the soul at the summons of some dreadful doom.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

A reticulated python about twenty-two feet long arrived from Singapore with its old skin dried down upon its body.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

Who, but the arch-murderer of souls, Dr. Donkey-ear Mertein Luther!—Who has robbed Christ of His wedded spouses—many of whom (though perhaps not all) had served Him diligently day and night for so many years in a lovely, spiritual life—and has brought them down to a miserable, pitiable and wicked mode of life?
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

It was but one look in that one moment; and the look never ceased to haunt her—a look of such stern disdain, but also of such deep despair.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

264 Some prefer Phthas to Opas (see Dr. Davis’s edition); but Opas is the generally received reading.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He began to suspect him of some double dealing in his pursuit of Emma.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

If the rate be four inches, the time is soo millions of years, which is the figure Geikie favoured, although his result was based on somewhat different data.
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Choice implies, then, these things: diversity of objects, liberty of selection, deliberation, decision, or preference.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven