Part V. Sack Of Rome By Genseric, King Of The Vandals.—His
— 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

Original The air was ‘Away with melancholy’—a composition, which, when it is played very slowly on the flute, in bed, with the further disadvantage of being performed by a gentleman but imperfectly acquainted with the instrument, who repeats one note a great many times before he can find the next, has not a lively effect.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

[The Peasantry.] VIGOR, son of the preceding, and, like the rest of his family, interested in protecting Francois Gaubertin from Montcornet; he was deputy judge of the court of Ville-aux-Fayes in 1823.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Plate VIII Size of originals.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

[ 45 ] At page 24 of a curious old Civil War tract, entitled, The Oxonian Antippodes , by I. B., Gent., 1644, the town is called Brummidgham, and this was the general rendering in the printed literature of the seventeenth century.—[This must have been the first known step towards the present vulgar style of spelling, for properly the word is Bromwich-ham, which has been corrupted into Brummagem, a term used to express worthless or inferior goods, from the spurious jewellery, plate, &c., manufactured there expressly for “duffers.”— Ed. ]
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

TO ATHENA (18 lines) (ll. 1-16) I begin to sing of Pallas Athene, the glorious goddess, bright-eyed, inventive, unbending of heart, pure virgin, saviour of cities, courageous, Tritogeneia.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

AT VIENNA PART THE THIRD — DUX — 1786-1798 I — THE CASTLE AT DUX II — LETTERS FROM FRANCESCA III — CORRESPONDENCE AND ACTIVITIES IV — CORRESPONDENCE WITH JEAN-FERDINAND OPIZ V — PUBLICATIONS VI — SUMMARY of MY LIFE VII — LAST DAYS
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Estos señores, como vean delante de sí una estatua, una armadura 5 mohosa, un cuadro podrido o una pared vieja, se olvidan de todo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Plate V Scenes on the Beach of Silosilo (Southern Massim District).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Then follows the inevitable chicken and salad, or perhaps Vienna steak, or vol-au-vent .
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

Nevertheless, he was dragged half-naked into the Forum, with his hands tied behind him, a rope about his neck, and his clothes torn, amidst the most contemptuous abuse, both by word and deed, along the Via Sacra; his head being held back by the hair, in the manner of condemned criminals, and the point of a sword put under his chin, that he might hold up his face to public view; some of the mob, meanwhile, pelting him with dung and mud, whilst others called him "an incendiary and glutton."
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius by Suetonius

Mr. Kipling doubtless knows more about his own faults than any of the critics; and if after one has read The Light that Failed for the sake of the story, one rereads it attentively as an Apologia Pro Vita Sua , one will be surprised to see how many ideas about his art he has put into the mouth of Dick.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

I saw with my own eyes my scientific friend eat and swallow an entire Boletus flavus , raw, without any apparent bad effects either that evening or the following day, whereas a small portion of the same kind, cooked too (I cannot, however, say secundum artem ), produced violent sickness on another individual, who, moreover, had never before experienced sickness; indeed, this fact would seem to suggest that the stomach may be ‘educated’ by long habit to bear this noxious food, and, therefore, that its evil effects (harmless upon organs well trained) happen when the experimentum in corpore vili is tried.
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

Was Mrs. Hazleton a person very susceptible, or very covetous of the tender passion?
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

[Pg 491] Edgecombe, and Christopher Urswike departed streight to the duke of Britaine, in full hope to conclude a peace, vpon such offers and articles as they had to propose vnto him.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

Upon examining in detail the various points of contrast between Eastern and Western Mohammedanism, the chief characteristic feature is, no doubt, the wild fanatic obstinacy with which the Mussulman, in the far East, clings to every single point of the Koran and the traditions, looking with terror and aversion, in the [188] true spirit of the Oriental, upon any innovation; and, in a word, directing all his efforts to the preservation of his religion at that precise standard which marked its existence in the happy period (Vakti Seadet) of the Prophet and the first califs.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

Vernon is a pleasant village situated on a rapid and navigable stream, which often winds through wild and romantic scenery.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham