The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

And posterity have also sometimes equally misapprehended the real value of his speculations.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“I must also inform you,” said the Rhetor, “that our Order delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom and virtue than mere words.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Every problem had a solution, even the negro.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He was pardoned, however, and still employed by a prince who esteemed his merit; 23 and in the various events of the Persian war, he improved the reputation which he had already acquired on the banks of the Rhine.
— 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

[4312] Prome reconditum, Lyde strenua, caecubum, Capaciores puer huc affer Scyphos, Et Chia vina aut Lesbia.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Pencroft, Herbert, and Spilett entered after him.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

He was pardoned, however, and still employed by a prince who esteemed his merit; and in the various events of the Persian war, he improved the reputation which he had already acquired on the banks of the Rhine.
— 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

At last Aniele succeeded in pacifying her, and she essayed the ascent; then, however, she had to be stopped while the old woman cautioned her about the floor of the garret.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Emmie, standing by the buffet and being assisted to tea and cake by two attentive clergymen, looked very nice in her black dress, with a large picture hat, and some ermine round her slim neck.
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

Every separate limb of the deceased was dedicated to a particular divinity by the aid of holy oils, charms, and sentences; a specially prepared cloth was wrapped round each muscle, every drug and every bandage owed its origin to some divinity, and the confusion of sounds, of disguised figures, and of various perfumes, had a stupefying effect on those who visited this chamber.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

He gives peace and prosperity, he also sends evil.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard

Many of the birds (for example, the carrier pigeons) have a sharper eye; dogs and other animals, a keener sense of smell.
— from Psychology: an elementary text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus

Droit d'Aubaine (drwä-dō-bān), an old rule in some European countries, by which the property of a foreigner who died was claimed by the State, unless the person had a special exemption.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

It was a pretty hand and soft enough, with tapering fingers, but it was not such a pretty hand as Eve's.
— from The Clammer and the Submarine by William John Hopkins

The passageway had a single entry to the bay in which Scarf and his troops were quartered.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven