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

The best fishing is in Two Medicine Lake and River, Cut Bank River, Red Eagle Lake and Creek, St. Mary Lake and River and the tributary streams, Cracker Lake, Cañon Creek, McDermott Lake, and tributary streams,
— from Your National Parks, with Detailed Information for Tourists by Enos A. Mills

As he read each label a curious smile of satisfaction spread over his features.
— from The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

The commissioners were Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of London, Winchester, Rochester, Ely, Lichfield, and Coventry; Sir Julius Cæsar, Sir John Barry, Sir Daniel Dunne, Sir John Bennet, Francis James and Thomas Edwards, doctors of civil law.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

He asked himself what power it was that had flung aside caste, religion, education, like a child's sandcastle before the onrush of a mighty tide.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

I hate that room and those tables and curios; it is wicked—it is wrong for any one to make her room exactly like a curiosity shop, and that is what Lady Anne does.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

With a stick of chocolate to celebrate the New Year, and with only 170 miles between them and the Pole, prospects Page 371 seemed to be getting brighter on New Year's night, and on the next evening at Camp 55 Scott decided that E. R. Evans, Lashly and Crean should go back after one more march.
— from The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley

[Pg 241] (Madame) Patey, Sims Reeves, Edward Lloyd and Charles Santley.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford