“At the same time,” continued D’Artagnan, “notwithstanding your forty thousand francs a year, and perhaps even for the very reason that you have forty thousand francs a year, it seems to me that a little coronet would do well on your carriage, hey?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Next to Ætolia are the Locri 2143 , surnamed Ozolæ; a people exempt from tribute.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In his last moments the arts of the empress Plotina either fixed the irresolution of Trajan, or boldly supposed a fictitious adoption; 38 the truth of which could not be safely disputed, and Hadrian was peaceably acknowledged as his lawful successor.
— 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

Then he would walk slowly, looking at every coat with a practiced eye for the little bit of red ribbon, and when he had got to the end of his walk he always repeated the numbers aloud.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

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— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

984 A promontory extending from the Pyrenæan chain, on which a temple of Venus was situate.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The penitent emerged from the side of the box.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Lord save us, Mr. Franklin, here is the secret that puzzled everybody, from the great Cuff downwards, ready and waiting, as one may say, to show itself to you!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In some clubs guests may be put up for a day only, in others the privilege extends for two weeks or more.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"It is not a food, and therein lies its great charm for an age when people eat far too much for the sedentary lives they live; but it prevents the waste of tissue, and enables man to keep in health without half his time and two-thirds of his energy being exhausted in the process of digestion.
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

And then in the evening the same stream of tired listless men hurrying home, their bulky morning paper exchanged for the slim evening newssheet.
— from Roland Whately: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

Now the famine had seized upon the whole country, and there was a great want of what was necessary for sustenance, insomuch that it was after the recovery of the widow's son of Sarepta, God sent not only men that wanted it, but the earth itself also, which did not produce enough for the horse and the other beasts of what was useful for them to feed on, by reason of the drought.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

On the dining cars of the railroads of the Potato Bug Country they ate wonder ham from the famous Potato Bug Pigs, eggs from the Potato Bug Hens, et cetera.
— from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg

She was well-dressed, according to the fashion of the time, in fine dark green cloth, with a cloak of brown camlet, and hood of the same; but the latter was now thrown back, exposing a goodly quantity of chestnut-brown hair, partly escaping from the crimson snood which confined it; for the same sharp wind which had given her cheeks their glowing color, had been mischief-making with her morning toilet.
— from Geoffrey the Lollard by Frances Eastwood

His inflexible resolution, his unbounded ambition, his own genius, his power over the mind of others—those great military talents, in short, which, so valuable in war, are in peace so dangerous, had afforded reasons for making the peace of Paris, by which Napoleon was personally excluded from the throne.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

But very sure I am, that, whilst there remains in the law any principle whatever which can furnish to certain politicians an excuse for raising an opinion of their own importance, as necessary to keep their fellow-subjects in order, the obnoxious people will be fretted, harassed, insulted, provoked to discontent and disorder, and practically excluded from the partial advantages from which the letter of the law does not exclude them.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Leichhardt’s journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington furnished the first knowledge we had of the capabilities of North Queensland.
— from Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

The inaction of Sharduris clearly showed that he was no longer in a position to protect his allies, and that the backbone of his kingdom was broken; the kings who had put faith in his help now gave him up, and ambassadors flocked in from all parts, even from those which were not as yet directly threatened.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero