] Note 61 ( return ) [ Coliseum.... ob stultitiam Romanorum majori ex parte ad calcem deletum, says the indignant Poggius, (p. 17:) but his expression too strong for the present age, must be very tenderly applied to the xvth century.
— 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

If this political atmosphere can disturb the equanimity of one so guarded and so prudent as he is, what will be the result with me, so careless, so outspoken as I am?
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the “Royal Exchange, London.” “Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called tee, sold in almost every street in 1659.”—Rugge’s Diurnal.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There was no one to attend him but Kotrina; there was no doctor to help him, because they were too poor, and children did not die of the measles—at least not often.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

—No es esto condenar la arqueología—dijo vivamente el sobrino de doña Perfecta, advirtiendo con dolor que no pronunciaba una palabra sin herir a alguien.—Bien sé que del polvo sale la historia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

As the worshippers arrived they found strange persons in possession of the adjacent streets, and upon the steps of the church, vowing their worship should not be performed, and crying, "Down with the protestants!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In the pew directly in front of us sat an elderly lady, plainly and cheaply dressed; at her side sat a young lady with a very sweet face, and she also was quite simply dressed; but around us and about us were clothes and jewels which it would do anybody's heart good to worship in.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 by Mark Twain

I had by this time blossomed out as quite a poker player and could do as many tricks as the best of them.
— from Dave Ranney Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography by Dave Ranney

Bees are a-buzzin’ in chaw an’ clover Stealin’ the honey from sperrits o’ morn, Shoshus leap in puv an’ cover, Doves are a-cooin’ like lover to lover, Larks are awake an’ a-warblin’ over Their kairs in the corn.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Acts by Anonymous

-in eight Natural Orders. -in Primula. -apparent cases due to mere variability.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

The anecdote enhanced the lovers’ own joy of life, and though Jinny steered for church (if by a zigzag path to avoid other worshippers) they never got out of the fir-grove, where a tree sapped by the flood presented a comparatively dry seat amid the sodden gull-haunted ways.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

Esforzábase el labriego en convencer al joven de la temeridad de sus propósitos, así como de lo inútil de su generosa 20 idea, porque los robados robados estaban y quizás muertos,
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Shall I, then, publish a card denying the truth of these stories?” Father Rasle asked, with an expression of face which showed his distaste for the task.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

For I was young and healthy, and why should I lie there while Deborah and Martha broke the ice in their pitchers, and came downstairs with rasped red faces and acidulated tempers?
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Sleepy-eyed, phlegmatic Martians, self-condemned for minute violations of their incredible and complex mores—without guards save themselves—will return to the subterranean cities, complex philosophies, and cool, dry air of Mars when they have declared their own sentences to be at an end.
— from Foundling on Venus by Dorothy De Courcy