This note is not, perhaps, very necessary and does not contain the whole facts.
— 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

Thine be my elephant, so famed, My uncle's present, Victor named; And let a thousand coins of gold, Great Bráhman, with the gift be told.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[2659] Illius viduae, aut patronum Virginis hujus, Ne me forte putes, verbum non amplius addam.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, 80 Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, That victory they dare not wish to either side.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

All along Missionary Ridge were the tents of the rebel beleaguering force; the lines of trench from Lookout up toward the Chickamauga were plainly visible; and rebel sentinels, in a continuous chain, were walking their posts in plain view, not a thousand yards off.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pávlovna very naturally asked Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he found the Prussian army.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Being, however, his first attempt at storming a maiden fortress, he was not very expert at it, and the coveted way proving very narrow and confined, it was not without some difficulty he effected his object.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The new home was in a pretty village nestled among the hills on the Battenkill.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

And the whole tenor of Scripture from beginning to end is to this effect: the matter of revelation is not a mere collection of truths, not a philosophical view, not a religious sentiment or spirit, not a special morality,—poured out upon mankind as a stream might pour itself into the sea, mixing with the world's thought, modifying, purifying, invigorating it;—but an authoritative teaching, which bears witness to itself and keeps itself together as one, in contrast to the assemblage of opinions on all sides of it, and speaks to all men, as being ever and everywhere one and the same, and claiming to be received intelligently, by all whom it addresses, as one doctrine, discipline, and devotion directly given from above.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

The wood indicated by Maertz was plainly visible now, and close at hand, and the first rays of daylight gave colour to the landscape.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

Vera leant back in the corner of the cab, and gazed--rapt, if anxious--at his dark, handsome profile, visible now and again in the moonlight which flashed white radiance upon the puddles and silvered the wet slates of the roofs.
— from A Woman Martyr by Alice M. (Alice Mangold) Diehl

Peace; that was the quality that his whole being expressed, though, with opened eyes, his face had the more human look of patience, verging now and then on a quiet dejection that would overspread his features like a veil.
— from The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

To all practical purposes very nearly all young men of the better class enter the army as one year volunteers, by which they escape more than a few weeks of barracks, and even then escape its worst features.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

2. The cruel cotton tax; the constitution amended to prevent repentance of uncompensated emancipation, which is the greatest confiscation on record; the resolute effort to put the southern whites under the [Pg vi] negroes; and other such measures; were but natural outcome of the frenzied intersectional struggle of twenty-five years and the resulting terrible war.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

Little Hammer, you see how he hide his head: not because he kill the Tarquin, that Brigley, but because he is a poor 'vaurien' now, and he once was happy and had a wife. . . .
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

Their needles were made of hedgehog's prickles, or bones of animals, as iron or steel possessed virtues not always favourable to magic.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

Ischermo di savere e di richezza, Di nobilitate ancora e di prodezza, Vale neente ai colpi di costei, with some other words which cannot easily be understood.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

Clémentine married Prince Victor Napoleon and the widely varied possibilities attached to such a name.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise