A province is assimilated to the victorious state by the introduction of strangers and the imitative spirit of the natives; and Spain, which had been successively tinctured with Punic, and Roman, and Gothic blood, imbibed, in a few generations, the name and manners of the Arabs.
— 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

They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Moreover, he let cut and fashion store of rich and goodly apparel, after the measure of a damsel who seemed to him like of her person to the young woman he was purposed to marry, and provided also rings and girdles and a rich and goodly crown and all that behoveth unto a bride.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Even if we did not know that our mind is eternal, we should still consider as of primary importance piety and religion, and generally all things which, in Part IV., we showed to be attributable to courage and high—mindedness.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

These, then, are the prizes and rewards and gifts which are bestowed upon the just by gods and men in this present life, in addition to the other good things which justice of herself provides.
— from The Republic by Plato

slopeness[obs3]; leaning &c. v.; bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion &c. 243; bend &c. (curve) 245; tower of Pisa. acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd[obs3], rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity|; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe[Fr]; facilis descensus averni[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But beautiful art does this not only in the case of painting or sculpture (in which the term “attribute” is commonly employed): poetry and rhetoric also get the spirit that animates their works simply from the aesthetical attributes of the object, which accompany the logical and stimulate the Imagination, so that it thinks more by their aid, although in an undeveloped way, than could be comprehended in a concept and therefore in a definite form of words.—
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In consequence of those two apparently very simple and easy alterations, the duties of customs and excise might probably produce a revenue as great, in proportion to the consumption of the most thinly inhabited province, as they do at present, in proportion to that of the most populous.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[142] Light-foot May with Meggan Sought the choicest spot, Clothed with thyme-alternate grass: Then, while day waxed hot, Sat at ease to play and rest, A gracious rest and play; The loveliest maidens near or far, When Margaret was away, Who sat at home to sing and sew.
— from Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Yet their conference with her was most opportune, for the news she must presently receive, brought by a messenger from Scotland who had outstripped all others, would no doubt move her to action which should set the minds of the people at rest, and go far to stem the tide of conspiracy flowing through the kingdom.
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Complete by Gilbert Parker

The whole vocabulary of chess—the only sound which breaks the monotonous silence of the game, is the little word check ; and it is a singular fact, remarked by Mr. F. W. Cronhelm, that, however varied the names of the pieces in different languages, yet the Italians, French, English, Danes, Icelanders, Germans, Poles, and Russians all give the king warning in the same word— check!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Genius does not fall from the skies ready-made and complete in armor and equipment; the study which is to develop it is a task painful and tiresome, whose pleasures are rare, and, generally speaking, but those of anticipation and vanquished obstacles.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

There were times when the showmen made a tour of the bothies, where they slung their poles and ropes and gave their poor performances to audiences that were not critical.
— from Auld Licht Idyls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

down by the stern, and while this saved the propeller and rudder a good deal, it made the Endurance practically unmanageable in close pack when the wind attained a force of six miles an hour from ahead, since the air currents had such a big surface forward to act upon.
— from South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Bulgarian schools and books produced a reaction against Greek culture and the Greek clergy who maintained it.
— from The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition by Jacob Gould Schurman

CHAPTER II AT TIBERIAS A Tyrian merchant-ship manned by three galleys of oarsmen, turned its high and proudly arched red and gold neck into the harbor of Tiberias.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

Round him gathered a cosmopolitan crowd of courtiers, soldiers, vassal princes, and followers of all kinds, and wider dealings than the ordinary local petty affairs received a great stimulus.
— from International Language, Past, Present & Future With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

TEMPTATION OF FRINA MAVRODIN CHAPTER XXIV.-HOW MARITZA ENTERED STURATZBERG CHAPTER XXV.-'TWIXT LOVE AND PITY CHAPTER XXVI.-REBELLION CHAPTER XXVII.-IN PURPLE AND RED AND GOLD CHAPTER XXVIII.-THE DIPLOMACY OF LORD CLOVERTON CHAPTER XXIX.-AFTER WAR—PEACE CHAPTER I. PLAYING TRUANT A breezy morning after a night of rain.
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner