Instead of listening to his humble prayer, that he might be permitted to reside at Cyzicus, or Nicomedia, the inflexible empress assigned for his exile the remote and desolate town of Cucusus, among the ridges of Mount Taurus, in the Lesser Armenia.
— 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

Note 24 ( return ) [ A citizen of new Rome, while new Rome survived, would have scorned to dignify the German 'Rhx with titles of BasileuV or Autokratwr 'Rwmaiwn: but all pride was extinct in the bosom of Chalcondyles; and he describes the Byzantine prince, and his subject, by the proper, though humble, names of ''EllhneV and BasileuV 'Ellhnwn.]
— 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

They are artificial problems, unknown to philosophy before it betook itself to the literal justification of fables in which the ob jects of rational endeavour were represented as causes of natural existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The analogy of animals tends to show that mankind can within certain limits receive a change of nature.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Whether this famous explorer remained a Christian or not is uncertain, but his parents must have either embraced Christianity before or at the time of his baptism.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

From the old tower the hours fall heavily Into the dark as though into the sea— A rustle, a call of night-watch in the grove, Then for a while void silence fills the air;
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

No power can check, no might can tame Ráma, a chief of noblest fame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

All his movements were closely watched, and after a few months the Captain-General “advised” him to leave the country, at the same time requesting a copy of Noli Me
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

It only requires a change of names to make Alcestis a Passion-play.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

We don’t want to run any chance of not getting these people there on time.
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

In its realization alone, can our noblest capabilities be realized.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Why, here’s a gal that don’t want to go to school, or learn now to read an’ cipher or nothin’!
— from The Return of the O'Mahony: A Novel by Harold Frederic

This is one of the many expressions which seem to imply that this treatise is rather a collection of notes of a viva voce lecture than a set formal treatise.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The other rooms on the first floor are devoted to the reception and convenience of New York visitors.
— from The Jewel City by Ben Macomber

Our leader would not relish any chance of not being able to present this furless Vairking to Att the Terrible.”
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

The day on which we celebrate the birth of our Lord is a time of rejoicing for rich and poor alike, and Christmas is Christmas still, although we may receive and can offer no presents and our feast is humble indeed.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard

The river, at this point, has already run a course of nearly seven hundred miles, from its origin at Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, during which it has received the waters of its numberless tributaries, and overflowing all the bottom lands or valleys, has swept along the fences and dwellings which have been unable to resist its violence.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

In his defence against the rather absurd charge of not going, as Macaulay had gone, to see the places about which he wrote, Froude pleaded want of means.
— from The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul