After this unsuccessful campaign, the want of magazines, and perhaps some inroad of the Turks, obliged him to disband or divide his forces; the Romans were left masters of the field, and their general Justinian, advancing to the relief of the Persarmenian rebels, erected his standard on the banks of the Araxes.
— 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

The six widows of the butchered men had just finished the most pathetic recital ever heard in any court room, and the mute appeal of twenty-seven orphans for justice touched the stoutest hearts.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Hence George, patrolling regularly every half-hour to the rooms so carefully looked after, extends his march to the hall-door, looks about him, and brings back the best report he can make of the worst of nights, the sleet still falling and even the stone footways lying ankle-deep in icy sludge.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Cocke says the bankers cannot, till peace returns, ever hope to have credit again; so that they can pay no more money, but people must be contented to take publick security such as they can give them; and if so, and they do live to receive the money thereupon, the bankers will be happy men.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Perquam ridiculum est homines ex animi sententia vivere, et quae Diis ingrata sunt exequi, et tamen a solis Diis vella solvos fieri, quum propriae salutis curam abjecerint.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A teasing custom-house, and a multiplicity of perplexing regulations, ever have, and ever will appear, the masterpiece of finance to people of narrow views; as a paper against smuggling, and the importation of French finery, never fails of furnishing a very popular column in a newspaper.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

" To this Penelope replied, "Eurymachus, heaven robbed me of all my beauty whether of face or figure when the Argives set sail for Troy and my dear husband with them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

At the age of fifteen he was sent to Cambridge, and delighted so much in his books, that he passed regularly eighteen hours every day among them.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Meanwhile, in 1844, Withington's pioneer roasting enterprise had admitted Norman Francis and Amos S. Welch as general partners, and Samuel and Charles C. Colgate as special partners, under the style of Withington, Francis & Welch.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The governor soon observed that one of these philanthropists rarely extended his saving hand, that the borrower did not come out as naked as
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

But as he had previously removed even his furniture from Rzeslewo to the city, she evidently assumed that he never would return and did not know where to write."
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Or are the Christian truths of faith perhaps regrettable errors, hence presumptions that should not be made?
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

To it she promptly replied, evincing her grateful appreciation, with the tenderest expressions, for the sympathy tendered to her in her great sorrow.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

This seemed for a moment like an insurmountable difficulty, but at the next instant, with the sense of a higher power ruling everything, he saw the finger of God in it, compelling him to wear his soldier's clothes and military boots beneath his Bedouin costume, lest leaving them behind him might lead to trouble for the good people who had befriended him.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

Avec notes explicatives, exercices, et vocabulaire, par Ralph E. House et Charles E. Young.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Not least of all, questions of physiology require extensive, highly technical and detailed information—information which requires years of special study to acquire—before any thinking that is at all safe can be put upon them.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

The Prince Regent, even, had not disdained to ask information on the subject from his physician.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About

When the young minister came, however, to study the hostile Indians that flocked to the village, any conclusive delineation of character, or any satisfactory analysis of their mental state in regard to the paleface religion, eluded him.
— from The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley by Zane Grey

[269] To make matters worse, when it was all over, Benson, who played right end, had a strained ligament in his ankle, Williams was limping with a bad knee and Quarter-back Milton had to be helped on and off the cars like a confirmed invalid.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour