20 He it was also who sought out Chinese painters and decorators and ornamented the churches with images and paintings.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Theodosius and Valentinian continued to respect the obligations of their public and domestic alliance; but the unity of the Roman government was finally dissolved.
— 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

the like I did to Mrs. Standing and also to my brother Tom, whom I found at an alehouse in Popinjay ally drinking, and I standing with him at the gate of the ally, Ashwell came by, and so I left Tom and went almost home with her, talking of her going away.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

if Pesgi, v. to feed, to fatten; to grow fat Pesgiad, n. a feeding, a fattening Peswch, n. a cough Pesychiad, n. a coughing Pesychlyd, a. troubled with cough Pesychlys, n. the coltsfoot Pesychu, v. to force out; to cough Petrus, a. apt to start; hesitating Petrusad, n. a hesitating Petrusder, n. hesitation, doubt Petrusen, n. a startler; partridge Petrusi, n. startling; hesitation Petruso, v. to startle; to hesitate Petrusol, a startling; hesitating Petryael, Petryal, n. a square: a. square Peth, n. a thing, a something; a quantity, a part Peuad, Peuant, n. a panting; a pausing Peuo, v. to spread out; to pant, to puff; to pause, to hesitate Peuol, a. panting; pausing Peuawr, a. hourly: adv. hourly Peues, n. place of rest; a country Peufer, a. whining; neighing Peuferu, v. to whine; to neigh Peunoeth, a. nocturnal, nightly Peunos, a. nocturnal, nightly Pi, n. state of being in, a pie Pia, n. a pie, a magpie Piant, n. possession, ownership Piau, v. to own, to possess Pib, n. a pipe; a tube; a lax Pibellu, n. a pipe, a duct, a tube Pibelliad, n. a piping; a forming of a pipe Pibellog, a. having a pipe Pibellu, v. to pipe; to form a pipe Pibellwr, n. pipe man, a piper Piben, n. a pipe, a duct, a flue Piblyd, a. apt to squirt, squirting Piblys, n. the flixweed Pibo, v. to pipe; to squirt Pibol, a. piping; squirting Pibonwy, n. icicles, sleet Pibori, n. a piping; a budding: v. to pipe; to tud Piborig, a. piping; budding Pibydd, n. piper, pipe player Pibyddiaeth, n. pipe-playing Picell, n. a dart, a javelin Picellai, n. a dart thrower Picellu, v. to throw a dart Picffon, n. a pike-staff Picfforch, n. a pitchfork Piciad, n. a darting, a going Picio, v. to dart, to fly suddenly Picwd, n. the prickled dog, the hound-fish Picyn, n. a piggin, a noggin Picynaid, n. a piggin-full Pid, n. a tapering point Piff, n. puff, sudden blast Piffio, v. to puff, to whiff Pig, n. a point, a pike, a nip; a bill, a beak; the pip Pigawglys, n. the spinach Pigfain, a. sharp-pointed Pigfan, n. mark of a point Pigfaniad, n. a puncturing Pigfanu, v. to puncture Pigfaniad, n. accumination Pigfeinio, v. to accuminate Pigin, n. picking pain, stitch Pigion, n. pickings; selections Pigl, n. the herb hound’s-tongue Pigo, v. to prick, to pick, to peck Pigoden, n. a pickle: a shrew Pigog, a. pointed, full of points, prickly Pigoga, n. spinach Pigwn, n. a cone; a beacon Pigwrn, n. pinacle, spire Pigyn, n. a stitch, a pleurisy Pigyrnu, v. to spire, to briskle up Pil, n. what hovers; a serjeant; a peal; a creek Pila, n. a finch Pilia, n. a moth, a butterfly Pilaid, a. transient, frail; mean Pilan, n. a sparrow-hawk Pilc, n. what turns about Pilcod, n. minnows Pilcota, v. to catch minnows Pildin, n. a gall by riding Pilden, n. cuticle, rind; fringe Pilenu, v. to form a cuticle Piler, n. a pillar, a column Pileru, v. to build upon pillars, to erect pillars Pilg, n. a vessel of bark; a laver Piliad, n. a paring, a peeling Pilio, v. to peel, to pare, to strip Pilion, n. peelings, strippings Pilionen, n. a thin peel, a film Pilo, n. rod of an apparitor Pilus, a. transient, frail; mean Pilwrn, n. a small dart Pilyn, n. a tegument: a clout; a pillion Pilynu, v. to put on a vesture Pilysyn, n. a robe, a pelisse Pill, n. a pivot; a shaft; a stem, a stock; a tong; a stronghold; a frame; a heater Pillgorn, n. the neck joint Pillgun, n. a plug, a stopple Pillio, v. to shaft, to peg Pillwydd, n. dead standing trees Pillyn, n. a small stem; a peg Pin, n. a pin; a stile, a pen Pinc, n. a sprig; a finch: a smart, brisk; gay; fine Pincen, n. a sprig; a spray Pincio, v. to cover with sprigs Piniwn, n. a gable end Pinwydd, n. pine wood Pioden, n. magpie, pie Piogen, n. a pie.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Other outstanding features included the description of how the association planned to conduct a research into the cost of doing a wholesale coffee-roasting business, the investigation to be made by Columbia University; addresses attacking the meat packers' invasion of the coffee roasting and distributing field; a paper, and discussions, on shorter terms and uniform discounts; the recommendation to employ a traveling field secretary who would hold periodical meetings with local branches; and the condemnation of guaranteeing prices against decline and giving advance notices of changes of prices.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I then made my way directly to the royal palace and demanded a private audience with the Lady of the Crystal Throne.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

What the propounders of this theory claim to show is, I humbly conceive, this,—that the direction in which a pendulum oscillates is constant , and not affected by the rotation of the earth beneath it: that as when suspended above the pole (where the point of suspension would remain fixed) the plane of each oscillation would make a different angle with any given meridian of longitude, returning to its original angle when the diurnal rotation of the earth was completed; and as when suspended above the equator, where the point of suspension would be moved in a right line, or, to define more accurately, where the plane made by the motion of a line joining the point of suspension and the point directly under it (over which the ball would remain if at rest) would be a flat or right plane, the angle made by each successive oscillation with any one meridian would be the same , so, at all the intermediate stations between the pole and the equator, where the point of suspension would move in a line, commencing near the pole with an infinitely small curve, and ending near the equator with one infinitely large ( i.e. where the plane as described above would be thus curved), the angle of the plane of oscillation with a given meridian would, at each station, vary in a ratio diminishing from the variation at the pole until it became extinct at the equator, which variation they believe to be capable both of mathematical proof and of ocular demonstration.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His faith had grown strong in the poor fisherman's cottage; the light which had never shone into his father's mind, in all the richness and sunshine of Spain, was sent to him to be his comfort in poverty and distress, a sign of that mercy of God which never fails.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Over and above the general restraints arising from this complicated system of revenue laws, the commerce of wine (after corn, perhaps, the most important production of France) is, in the greater part of the provinces, subject to particular restraints arising from the favour which has been shown to the vineyards of particular provinces and districts above those of others.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I am now writing an advertisement which I shall put into several of the papers, and day after to-morrow I shall go down to see the people who answer."
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

Several years ago I attended a National Conference to promote this work, at which he presided and delivered a powerful address.
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

It would require a book by itself, to particularize and describe all the members of this fearful convocation of monsters; of which it was afterwards written by Bernal Diaz, that when the beasts and reptiles were provoked and irritated, so as to howl and hiss together, 'the palace seemed like hell itself.'
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. II. by Robert Montgomery Bird

of his mate Peter, another Dutchman, a black, and two Indians.
— from The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by William Henry Giles Kingston

Amendments, condemning their policy, and demanding an investigation, were proposed in both Houses, and rejected by large majorities.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

As is shown in the history of other creeds, an idea may penetrate so deeply into the minds of its adherents as to breed an entire race of fanatics; and it is the opinion, not of Hartmann alone, but of many serious and cultivated scholars, that if ever an idea was destined to triumph without recourse to either passion or violence, and to exercise at the same time an action purely pacific, yet so profound and durable as to assure its success beforehand, that idea, or rather that sentiment, is the compassion which the pessimist feels not only for himself, but for everything that is.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

His farewell to you as a bachelor, and hers as a maid, you can claim on the spot if you think proper, and digest according to your powers."
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4 by George Meredith