Among these pieces are the constitutions which nominate commissioners for the formation of the Code; and though there are many points of considerable obscurity in these documents, they communicate many facts relative to this legislation.
— 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

He should, however, take his cigar, pipe, or cigarette, out of his mouth while he is speaking.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The inconceivability of the opposite; the capacity to be verified by sense; the possession of complete organic unity or self-relation, realized when a thing is its own other,—are standards which, in turn, have been used.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

This is the Sothiac Period, or Cycle of the Dog-star.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But I have advanced no opinion either for praise or censure, other than as texts introductory to the reasons which compel me to form it.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When he was not asleep, or playing a complicated kind of Patience with a ragged pack of cards of his own,—a game that I never saw before or since, and in which he recorded his winnings by sticking his jackknife into the table,—when
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The opinion, therefore, that silver is continually sinking in its value, seems not to be founded upon any good observations, either upon the prices of corn, or upon those of other provisions.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The disdainful pout of Comrade Ossipon’s thick lips accentuated the negro type of his face.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

after G.) 295 171 Interior of St. Peter’s (full page) 297 172 Library of St. Mark, Venice 301 173 Interior of San Severo, Naples 302 174 Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Naples 303 175 Court Façade, East Wing of Blois 311 176 Staircase Tower, Blois 313 xvi 177 Plan of Château of Chambord (A.) 314 178 Upper Part of Château of Chambord 314 179 Detail of Court of Louvre, southwest portion 315 180 The Luxemburg Palace, Paris 318 181 Colonnade of the Louvre 321 182 Dome of the Invalides, Paris 322 183 Façade of St. Sulpice, Paris 323 8th edn.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

When these principles have disappeared along with the tribal organization, some other principles, some other standard of duty and precepts of conduct, ought to be at hand to replace them.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Again, who so fitted as the renowned Rowland Hill, the very prig pragmatic of pretension, for the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, or First Lord of the Treasury if you will?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

When the inflammation extends to the pleura, or covering of the lungs, the disease is distinguished as Pleuro-pneumonia .
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Yellow fever has always been regarded as a very highly contagious as well as infectious disease, and the utmost precaution has been taken to isolate the patients when possible and in recent years strict quarantines have been established against infected localities and no person or commerce or even the mails
— from Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane

He drew forth a pinch of crumbs of tobacco, match splinters, and cloth-fluff.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

This was the sign that he accepted the position of champion of innocence.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

The name given by Herberger to the concrete portion or camphor of volatile oils.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Yet such is the power of convention over honourableness that I could not bring myself to reply directly, ‘Yes, I am your friend.’
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett