Plutarch, on this occasion, uses the expression, diadaemati basiliko, a royal diadem.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Or he writes a note or uses the engraved dinner card.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In Logic we ordinarily use the expressions demonstrable or indemonstrable only in respect of propositions , but these might be better designated by the titles respectively of mediately and immediately certain propositions; for pure Philosophy has also propositions of both kinds, i.e. true propositions, some of which are susceptible of proof and others not.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Note 341 ( return ) [ It was only under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, that the Burgundians, in concert with the Alemanni, invaded the interior of Gaul; under the reign of Probus, they did no more than pass the river which separated them from the Roman Empire: they were repelled.
— 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

Bee went at once to the English-speaking waiter, and asked for Mr. Leigh, whom the man, curious as all lookers-on are at a social drama going on under their eyes, declared to be still in his room.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

1 The above was the mansion of the family: its picturesqueness is of pleasing character; and our inquiry into the probable age of the structure has naturally enough led us into a few observations upon the early domestic architecture of this country.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 by Various

Let us, therefore, with Agur, disesteem our own understanding to esteem Divine.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

This was a very young savant , named Sauerwein, a protégé of the Prince Consort’s friend, Baron Stockmar, by whom he was recommended to my parents, as being capable of undertaking the entire direction of my studies, from the stage at which I had now arrived.
— from From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva by Carmen Sylva

It will have been noticed that up to the present we have learned that typhoid bacilli can and do live in sea-water, and also inside oysters up to eighteen days, but in ever-diminishing quantities.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

Gen. Stuart threw out his pickets across the fields, and just in front of us the enemy did likewise.
— from From Bull Run to Appomattox: A Boy's View by Luther W. Hopkins

It is, we are told, capable of uttering two entirely dissimilar notes, the first of which resembles the sharp, cracking noise produced by breaking a nut, followed by a bass note so deep as to lead travellers to suppose it to be rather the growl of a large quadruped than the cry of a small bird.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Then sweet rest was ours, until the early dawn.
— from On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young

Nothing whatever will do me the least 'good' in the way of shaking the one strong possession of change impending over us that every day makes stronger; but if I could work on with some approach to steadiness, through the summer, the anxious toil of a new book would have its neck well broken before beginning to publish, next October or November.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster