Just such another case fell out this same year: for on a certain Friday, when the whole people were bent upon their devotions, and had made goodly processions, with store of litanies, and fair preachings, and beseechings of God Almighty to look down with his eye of mercy upon their miserable and disconsolate condition, there was even then visibly seen issue out of the ground great drops of water, such as fall from a puff-bagged man in a top sweat, and the poor hoidens began to rejoice as if it had been a thing very profitable unto them; for some said that there was not one drop of moisture in the air whence they might have any rain, and that the earth did supply the default of that.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Having never seen virtuous Frenchwomen before, he reflected also that this elegantly dressed young lady with her well-developed shoulders and exaggeratedly small waist in all probability followed another calling as well as giving French lessons.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But this I may repeat again, that 'tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave we shall be all brethren again.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“should be not to enslave persons who do not deserve slavery, but firstly to secure ourselves against becoming the slaves of others; secondly, to seek imperial power not with a view to a universal despotic authority, but for the benefit of the subjects whom we rule, and thirdly, to exercise despotic power over those who are deserving to be slaves.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The partial and malignant historian, who misrepresents every action of his reign, affirms, that the emperor did not appear in the field of battle till the Barbarians had been vanquished by the valor and conduct of his lieutenant Promotus. 126
— 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

The partial and malignant historian, who misrepresents every action of his reign, affirms, that the emperor did not appear in the field of battle till the Barbarians had been vanquished by the valor and conduct of his lieutenant Promotus.
— 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

But the genius of that lively nation being more fitted for criticism than poetry; for drawing rules from what others have done, than for writing works which might be themselves standards; they were sooner able to produce an accurate table of laws for those intending to write epic poems and tragedies, according to the best Greek and Roman authorities, than to exhibit distinguished specimens of success in either department; just as they are said to possess the best possible rules for building ships of war, although not equally remarkable for their power of fighting them.
— from The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Walter Scott

Else, past ripeness, deathward bound, He reasons; and the totterer Earth detests, Love shuns, grim logic screws in grasp, is he.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

This space is at the same time absolute and relative; absolute as to its entity, relative as to the extrinsic denomination derived from the relation of which it is the formal reason.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

It will recognise among them two entirely different and opposite classes of character.
— from The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) Leland

In other terms, relative duration is absolute as to its entity, and relative as to the extrinsic denomination derived from the relations of which [120] it is the formal reason.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He triumphed, indeed, thanks to the ignorance of the Viennese, to his own skill as a director, (which enabled him to render the work of his rival scarcely recognisable), and to the entire devotion of his subordinates.
— from History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

In Chapter VIII, an extraneous quotation mark was removed after "They tote every drop."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

All their remedies appeared to the excellent Doctor as so much of that cant of which it was a man's first duty to clear his mind.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

Through Madame Vyrubova, who received her share of the spoils and acted upon the Empress, Rasputin reigned as Tsar, the Emperor doing little but sign his name to documents placed before him.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux