Misfortune had rekindled a spark of national virtue; and the Imperial series may be continued with some dignity from their restoration to the Turkish conquest.
— 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

Yet however requisite a sense of national character may be, it is evident that it can never be sufficiently possessed by a numerous and changeable body.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And this deponent swears positively that said Solomon Northup is a citizen of said State of New-York, and was born free, and from his earliest infancy lived and resided in the counties of Washington, Essex, Warren and Saratoga, in the State of New-York, and that his said wife and children have never resided out of said counties since the time said Solomon was married; that deponent knew the father of said Solomon Northup; that said father was a negro, named Mintus Northup, and died in the town of Fort Edward, in the county of Washington, State of New-York, on the 22d day of November, A. D. 1829, and was buried in the grave-yard in Sandy Hill aforesaid; that for more than thirty years before his death he lived in the counties of Essex, Washington and Rensselaer and State of New-York, and left a wife and two sons, Joseph and the said Solomon, him surviving; that the mother of said Solomon was a mulatto woman, and is now dead, and died, as deponent believes, in Oswego county, New-York, within five or six years past.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags, and splendors, of nodding plumes and shining armor.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The International Reports financial newsletter may be read and searched on NewsNet, Information Access, and Mead Data Central.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain ‘a shadow of nobility’ by deceiving oneself.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This that eminent person Mr. Reland suggested to me."] Note 21 ( return ) [ Here we have examples of native Jews who were of the equestrian order among the Romans, and so ought never to have been whipped or crucified, according to the Roman laws.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"you moonshine revelers and shades of night"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He then began to prepare himself for the business of the day, which consisted principally in riding about seeking out new adventures, or, as they term it, hunting in couples, with Harry Clinton.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Roll a sheet of note paper into a long, narrow funnel, tie a string about it to keep it in shape, and fill with colored sauce.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

He beheld a creature in all the gentle bloom of highbred beauty—tall, well-formed, and radiating a sort of natural elegance, with a fine-shaped, expressive face, to which great speaking eyes and a mouth half pensive, half smiling, lent an air of rare distinction.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

READING THE RIDDLES OF THE ROCKS Fossils regarded as sports of nature, 111 ; qualifications of a successful collector, 112 ; chances of collecting, 114 ; excavation of fossils, 115 ; strengthening fossils for shipment, 117 ; great size of some specimens, 118 ; the preparation of fossils, 119; mistakes of anatomists, 120 ; reconstruction of Triceratops, 121 ; distinguishing characters of bones, 122 ; [vii] the skeleton a problem in mechanics, 124 ; clothing the bones with flesh, 127 ; the covering of animals, 127 ; outside ornamentation, 129; probabilities in the covering of animals, 130 ; impressions of extinct animals, 131 ; mistaken inferences from bones of Mammoth, 133 ; coloring of large land animals, 134; color markings of young animals, 136 ; references, 137 .
— from Animals of the Past by Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus) Lucas

“A bit of rag, a scrap of newspaper, a fowl’s feather—anything? Look sharp!”
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

Along the rivers and swamps of Ngamiland and the Okavango, sickness and suffering destroyed whole families.
— from From Veldt Camp Fires by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

To which I replied, "A supply of nitrogen at low cost."
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 by Various

By the movement of his jaws he must be eating; in that camp of famine he had reserved a store of nourishment; and while his companions lay in the stupor of approaching death, secretly restored his powers.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

The question as to whether he was really a Sceptic or not we treat more fully in the Memoranda, but here we state briefly that according to Menodotus and Aenesidemus (for these especially defended this position) Plato dogmatises when he expresses himself regarding ideas, and regarding the existence of Providence, and when he states that the virtuous life is more to be chosen than the one of vice.
— from Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick