Now I find that the percentage of speeches ending with a broken line is about 50 for the first two Acts, but about 62 for the last three.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Their large round eyes, too, had but the sense of feeling, but so wondrously acute was it that it was almost like the power of sight, enabling them by the vibration of the air upon the balls to tell exactly how near a moving object is to them.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity But the modest or angry tone of his apologies betrays his weakness and vexation; and these passages of scandal established, beyond suspicion, the integrity of the Koran.
— 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

I said that Lambro was a man of patience, And certainly he show'd the best of breeding, Which scarce even France, the paragon of nations, E'er saw her most polite of sons exceeding; He bore these sneers against his near relations, His own anxiety, his heart, too, bleeding, The insults, too, of every servile glutton, Who all the time was eating up his mutton.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The Turk regarded and regards women as animals without soul, toys to be play'd with or broken at pleasure, and to be hidden, partly from shame, but chiefly for the purpose of stimulating exhausted passion.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And in another play of slightly earlier date ( Le Jus de St. Nicolas ), the King of Africa, invaded by the Christians, summons all his allies and feudatories, among whom appear the Admirals of Coine ( Iconium ) and Orkenie ( Hyrcania ), and the Amiral d'outre l'Arbre-Sec (as it were of "the Back of Beyond") in whose country the only current coin is millstones!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

A military term for one who, under pretence of sickness, evades his duty.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Whether death, which by the sin of our first parents has passed upon all men, is the punishment of sin, even to the good.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To acquire the conception of change, therefore, the perception of some existing object and of the succession of its determinations, in one word, experience, is necessary.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The manuscript is now in the possession of Sr. Eduardo Lete, of Saragossa, Spain.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

In this sentence, we have a noun , verb , pronoun , adjective , adverb , conjunction and preposition —every part of speech except the interjection , which is an independent element and does not enter into the construction of the sentence.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

Much practice on similar expeditions had given them excellent range.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

Rights of trading were granted, but public or state employment was withheld.
— from Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 by Magnus, Katie, Lady

The phrase of Satan eating, denotes the hellish pleasure he takes in man’s ruin; for a person is supposed to eat nothing but what he loves; it is the Devil’s meat, his joy, his delight, to lead into sin, to get men to serve him, and to buffet, vex, and plague the saints.
— from A Feast for Serpents Being the substance of a sermon, preached at the Obelisk Chapel, on Sunday evening, March 21, 1813 by J. (John) Church

"Call Him what you please: He won't be put off so easily."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

For the second I haue heard, that when one of the greatest péeres of Spaine espied our nakednesse in this behalfe, and did solemnelie vtter in no obscure place, that it should be an easie matter in short time to conquer England, bicause it wanted armor, his words were then not so rashlie vttered, as they were politikelie noted.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

The Spring campaign was now opened with favorable auspices to our side, with a prospect of soon ending the war.
— from Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton (John Newton) Terrill

Be this as it may, we may safely conclude that the amount of human population now existing constitutes but a small proportion of that which the globe is capable of supporting, or which it is destined to sustain at no distant period, by the rapid progress of society, especially in America, Australia, and certain parts of the old continent.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Then, with a cordial grip of the hand all round, he left the ship under the pilotage of Sergeant Evans.
— from The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure. by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton