The royal exiles landed at Constantinople, soon after the marriage of Theodosius, during the festival of the Persian victories.
— 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

I wished to begin my work at some Northern point, to win the empire which force and intellect must ever give over a primitive people; to form that people for battle, to drive them to wars which should ravage Europe like a conflagration, crying liberty to some, pillage to others, glory here, pleasure there!—I, myself, remaining an image of Destiny, cruel, implacable, advancing like the whirlwind, which sucks from the atmosphere the particles that make the thunderbolt, and falls like a devouring scourge upon the nations.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Silent by my side you read every leaf, and copied it as soon as written, while the sea, the villages, the ravines, the mountains were spread out at our feet.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

BY A. E. TREGANZA AND A. BIERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Vol. 20, No. 2 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Editors (Los Angeles): C. W. Meighan, Harry Hoijer, Eshref Shevky Volume 20, No. 2, pp.
— from The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948 by Adan E. (Adan Eduardo) Treganza

Whereas , This day, throughout all this Southern land, sorrow, many-tongued, is ascending to heaven for the death of Robert E. Lee, and communities everywhere are honoring themselves in striving to do honor to that great name; and we, the people of Augusta, who were not laggards in upholding his glorious banner while it floated to the breeze, would swell the general lamentation of his departure: therefore be it " Resolved , That no people in the tide of time has been bereaved as we are bereaved; for no other people has had such a man to lose.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

Robert E. Lee, afterward commander of the Confederate armies, was one of the officers who placed the artillery in position.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

[1229] ‘Le xvi e Concile de Tolède appelait les rois “vicaires de Dieu et du Christ;” et rien n'est plus fréquent dans les conciles de cette époque que leurs exhortations aux peuples pour l'observation du serment de fidélité á leur roi, et leurs anathêmes contre les séditieux.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Guess it is raining everywhere; letters are coming telling of a snow in some places nine and ten inches deep, on the 25th of April; of hard frozen ground, and continuous rains.
— from To and Through Nebraska by Frances I. Sims Fulton