"Beyond this delightful region there are immense forests, where the branches of the trees entwine round each other, while prickly, creeping plants cover the paths, and only an elephant could force a passage for himself with his great feet.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Satisfied with the glory which he had acquired, by revenging the death of his benefactor, and delivering the West from the yoke of tyranny, the emperor returned from Milan to Constantinople; and, in the peaceful possession of the East, insensibly relapsed into his former habits of luxury and indolence.
— 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

154 But the power of the testator expired with the acceptance of the testament: each Roman of mature age and discretion acquired the absolute dominion of his inheritance, and the simplicity of the civil law was never clouded by the long and intricate entails which confine the happiness and freedom of unborn generations.
— 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

how can he who has the hardest and most terrible grasp of reality, and who has thought the most "abysmal thoughts," nevertheless avoid conceiving these things as objections to existence, or even as objections to the eternal recurrence of existence?—how is it that on the contrary he finds reasons for being himself the eternal affirmation of all things, "the tremendous and unlimited saying of Yea and Amen"?...
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Owing to the excessive reverberation of the saloon in the Hotel 'The City of London,' the noise was unbearable.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

But before we go on to the exposition referred to, we must first explain and more exactly define this freedom and its relation to necessity.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Returning, however, to the more frequent conditions of inguinal hernia--viz., those in which either the direct or the oblique variety occurs alone--it should be remembered that a hernia originally oblique, H, Plates 35 and 37, may, when of long standing, and having attained a large size, destroy, by its gravitation, the obliquity of the inguinal canal to such a degree as to bring the internal, H, Plate 35, opposite to the external ring, as at I, and thereby exhibit all the appearance of a hernia originally direct, I, Plate 37.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

But the power of the testator expired with the acceptance of the testament: each Roman of mature age and discretion acquired the absolute dominion of his inheritance, and the simplicity of the civil law was never clouded by the long and intricate entails which confine the happiness and freedom of unborn generations.
— 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

First he rings his bell fearlessly, but when he gets into a tight place he runs away as quietly as he can, and often thinking to escape runs straight into his opponent’s arms.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This idea obviously was suggested by observing that their earthly rulers always smiled, and became less rigorous in their laws, and milder in their treatment of their subjects, when they made them presents of some valuable or desirable commodity.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

"As I have always told you, I take my orders from the owner; and if you desire such a dinner, I shall certainly give Mr. Sage an order to that effect," replied the commander.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

Saul is a tyro in the business—can't blow softly, though he tries hard to do so, and completely drowns the singers except when he breaks down, which occurs rather often, to their extreme relief.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

The third and final collection consists of upwards of 150 melodies; "Of these," the editor remarks in his Preface, "considerably more than 120 are now for the first time published, the remainder being sets much superior to those already known."
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Glancing back Anthony observed that the entire road was solid with sheep, a compact mass that moved neither forward nor backward.
— from Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

Then it is within existing possibilities, that every mind be thoroughly cultivated; and every body taxed for labor, only to the extent required by the conditions of its own best vigor and that of the inhabiting mind.
— from The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington

Several stocky Americans of the type easily recognized as “railroad men,” and as many English-speaking negroes could be seen shouldering their way in and out of the motley throng.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Others who have larger means of meeting probable drafts on their 'tenderness' have also a way of pushing misery out of sight, or handing it over to the emollient remedies of a Royal Commission, which, of course, goes thoroughly into the matter.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It gradually grew into a great power, and took the name of the "Third Estate," ranking directly after the clergy, and nobility.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

"The other three, still uncertain whence the shot had come, owing to the echo reverberating among the hills, hesitated a few moments, and then sprang downwards, one passing so near that, had I had another gun, I might perhaps have killed him.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman