The school gossiped, the kitchen whispered, the town caught the rumour, parents wrote letters and paid visits of remonstrance.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

p. 121, note 4 . 388 Pulmonary vein, or rather, left auricle.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Noteworthy among these are "A man's a man for a' that," which voices the new romantic estimate of humanity; "The Vision," from which we get a strong impression of Burns's early ideals; the "Epistle to a Young Friend," from which, rather than from his satires, we learn Burns's personal views of religion and honor; the "Address to the Unco Guid," which is the poet's plea for mercy in judgment; and "A Bard's Epitaph," which, as a summary of his own life, might well be written at the end of his poems.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

On the very same day in which the protestants were so successful at Crusol, some papists marched with a design to plunder and burn the little protestant village of Rocappiatta, but by the way they met with the protestant forces belonging to the captains Jahier and Laurentio, who were posted on the hill of Angrognia.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Note 79 ( return ) [ Eum Constantius..... facundiae vi dejectum Imperio in pri vatum otium removit.
— 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

Emphasis was indeed on all surrender themes—good food, human care, privileges under international law, patriotic value of remaining alive, opportunity to return to loved ones, and so forth.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Hippocrates arrived in season, Just as his patient (void of reason!)
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The Camerons had what the Adamses thought the political vice of reaching their objects without much regard to their methods.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

And for the first time Sónya felt that out of her pure, quiet love for Nicholas a passionate feeling was beginning to grow up which was stronger than principle, virtue, or religion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Peter van Oost received the order for the ceiling of the town hall of Bruges; and in 1449, W. Ards was carving that of the town hall of Mechlin.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

In the first place, let us remark that the east wind, and particularly the east winds of spring, are notorious for their moisture, and that a moist air is the best conductor of malaria, as moisture in the air, under the form of evening mists, or in other modes, appears even to be its proper vehicle, or residence, if I may use such a term; and though I have not as yet separated the case of a fog, I may now remark, that the effect in question, or the production of agues by fogs arriving from the sea, is even more notorious than their generation by an ordinary clear wind.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

As these apparently paradoxical views of Reality are resolved in Brâhma, so all other opposites are reconciled in Him: bondage and liberty, love and renunciation, pleasure and pain (XVII, XXV, XL, LXXIX).
— from Songs of Kabir by Kabir

The land increased considerably in height as she advanced, and in many places exhibited a pleasing variety of ridges, hills, valleys, and plains, all clothed with wood.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Pike mediated a peace treaty between the Kansa and Osage, at the Pawnee village on Republican River, September 28, 1806.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

Early the following morning he passed through Mosquito cove, and breakfasted at Hendrick Onderdonk's, at the head of a bay, the site of the present village of Roslyn, or Hempstead harbor.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

16— Posterior View of Radius, Illustrating Effects of Splint 108 Fig.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

On the altar of Christ, Who is the prince of pardon and of peace, Vows of revenge are registered, and torches That are thrown into hearts of leaguered cities Are lit from tapers burning before God.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells