From the reign of the Abbassides to that of the grandchildren of Tamerlane, the stars, without the aid of glasses, were diligently observed; and the astronomical tables of Bagdad, Spain, and Samarcand, correct some minute errors, without daring to renounce the hypothesis of Ptolemy, without advancing a step towards the discovery of the solar system.
— 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

Whilst his companions were attending a banquet given by king Cyzicus, Heracles, who, as usual, had remained behind to guard the ship, observed that these Giants were busy blocking up the harbour with huge rocks.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

To prevent, therefore, giving offence to their customers by any such disappointment, it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Old tobacco —Tsâl-agăyûñ′li, “ancient tobacco,” the Nicotiana rustica , sacred among all the eastern tribes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

According to the plan first laid down, we were to have quitted London on the twenty-fifth of November; and, in pursuance of this scheme, two-thirds of our people—thepeople— all that remained of England, had gone forward, and had already been some weeks in Paris.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Marriage of Geraint The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the Table Round, Had married Enid, Yniol's only child, And loved her, as he loved the light of Heaven.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Then she enlisted Life in her service, and using some of life’s external forms, she created an entirely new race of beings, whose sorrows were more terrible than any sorrow man has ever felt, whose joys were keener than lover’s joys, who had the rage of the Titans and the calm of the gods, who had monstrous and marvellous sins, monstrous and marvellous virtues.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

And Peisistratos having accepted the proposal and made an agreement on these terms, they contrived with a view to his return a device the most simple by far, as I think, that ever was practised, considering at least that it was devised at a time when the Hellenic race had been long marked off from the Barbarian as more skilful and further removed from foolish simplicity, and among the Athenians who are accounted the first of the Hellenes in ability.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“Thus though the rabble of mankind look upon these, and on innumerable other things of the same nature, as pleasures, the Utopians, on the contrary, observing that there is nothing in them truly pleasant, conclude that they are not to be reckoned among pleasures; for though these things may create some tickling in the senses (which seems to be a true notion of pleasure), yet they imagine that this does not arise from the thing itself, but from a depraved custom, which may so vitiate a man’s taste that bitter things may pass for sweet, as women with child think pitch or tallow taste sweeter than honey; but as a man’s sense, when corrupted either by a disease or some ill habit, does not change the nature of other things, so neither can it change the nature of pleasure.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

85 The consternation of the Germans, after the battle of Strasburgh, encouraged him to the first attempt; and the reluctance of the troops soon yielded to the persuasive eloquence of a leader, who shared the fatigues and dangers which he imposed on the meanest of the soldiers.
— 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

In the Greenwich alt-azimuth, the telescope is swung on pivots between two piers, just as in the case of the transit, these piers being fixed to the horizontal circle.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Compare this poem with Romains' "Ode to the Crowd Here Present" and you get the two angles of vision.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

So that, no sooner was King Robert dead, than his wishes in respect to the mutual sovereignty of Andrew [205] and Joan were contemptuously put aside by those who proclaimed Joan, and Joan alone, as their new Queen to the Neapolitan people; but Joan’s acquiescence in their proclamation of her as sole sovereign cannot be overlooked, foreshadowing, as it would almost seem to do, some already half-formed instinctive project of becoming actually that which she had been proclaimed to be—the single occupant of the throne.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

We rode to Sudbury gates and called on the townspeople to open their gates.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

A prolonged blast of her siren warns the military officers that the first transport is about to cast off, and the movement of the troops is accelerated to a hurried rush and the withdrawal of the gangways.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone

In reality, however, Roos set up his camera inside of the tent and shot the antics of the shadow the sunlight threw on the canvas when I went through the motions of turning in close against the outside of the wall.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

He had recognized the shouts of triumph as coming from the Happars instead of the Typees, and began to believe his friends had lost the battle.
— from With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in the Southern Waters During the War of 1812 by James Otis

The vault up there represents the sky, the board lying on the table, the earth.
— from Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg

An attendant, who soon came up, explained the circumstance; and it finally turned out, that the fair Mariamne, whatever her coquetry might have intended at night, repented at morn; recollected some of the ominous expressions of her lover; and on hearing that he had been seen with a group entering the grove, and that I, too, was absent, had conjectured the truth at once, and flown, with her femme de chambre, to the rendezvous.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

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— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips