The humanity of his predecessors had always remitted, in some auspicious circumstance of their reign, the arrears of the public tribute, and they dexterously assumed the merit of resigning those claims which it was impracticable to enforce.
— 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

[ Sits down beside the table and takes some money out of his pocket ] Half a ruble in silver—that's what Lázar gave me to-day.
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Boniface adds that the Pope holds all rights “in scrinio pectoris sui.”
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

But the afternoon came, and the wild boy was still in the water, too deeply interested in the navigation of a plank to realize that he was playing "hookey" and risking its shady consequences.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

That of the Polish patriot has already received its sacred deposit, and with the sincere oblation of a not quite stranger's heart, this poor offering is laid on the grave of him who fought for 'his country's freedom, laws, and native king;' who, when riches and a crown were proffered to himself by the then dictator of almost all Europe, declined both, because no price could buy the independence of an honest man.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

2. Slavery would make their condition worse than when they had no government, for liberty is always preferable; neither could people have acted rationally in setting up government, if to be free of oppression of others they had given themselves up to slavery, under a master who may do what he pleases with them.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

I fled from her presence, honestly and resolutely; I sought to conquer a forbidden passion; I believed that I had not won affection in return; I believed, from certain expressions that I overheard Evelyn utter to another, that her heart as well as her hand was given to Vargrave.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Gilbert, born two and a half years after William, seemed often to have been his practical helper and representative in Stratford-on-Avon.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes