This Italus, they relate, made the AEnotrians, who were formerly shepherds, husbandmen, and gave them different laws from what they had before, and to have been the first who established common meals, for which reason some of his descendants still use them, and observe some of his laws.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The cause of the Priscillianists, a recent sect of heretics, who disturbed the provinces of Spain, was transferred, by appeal, from the synod of Bordeaux to the Imperial consistory of Treves; and by the sentence of the Prætorian præfect, seven persons were tortured, condemned, and executed.
— 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

Now he stood in hesitation and seemed to be reckoning something on his fingers.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She wanted to know whether the amber tasted like barley-sugar as it looked, and there was a little musk deer, no bigger than Don, whom she longed to stroke, or still better to let Lonicera ride; but she was a good little girl, and had real sense of honour, which never betrays a trust, so she never laid a finger on anything but what Uncle Joe had once given all free leave to move.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Besides, I am older than you,” she remarked suddenly, opening her eyes and looking up at him, “three years older.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The schoolmaster now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffing and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

We have had, and may still have, worse things to tell of him; but none, we apprehend, so pitiably weak; no evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease, that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, “Down, down all, and give way!—there they are!”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I knew, too, the red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The country people hand down in the primitive way, from one generation to the other, a ripe store of human wisdom, that often gives them a wider outlook on life and a deeper strength of character than that of the educated man who shallowly criticises them.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

This done, remove the banners and let the horse with his pretty rider dance around the ring, sometimes on his hind feet, as in [20] Fig. 12 , and again on his fore feet ( Fig. 11 ), while little Rosebud easily retains her footing, looking more than ever like a real circus rider.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

Not only is the real state of human nature revealed with unerring truth, as suffering under a cruel malady, strangely diverse in its operations, but all tending to the downward, dark, dreary road to misery temporal and eternal: but it also displays the antidote; an infallible remedy against all the subtilties of this tortuous disease.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

She remained seated on her chair until eleven o’clock, playing and talking, avoiding the eyes of Laurent, who for that matter did not trouble himself about her.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

The record of this royal salute on his natal day is very characteristic.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

And, taking him to the bank of the little stream that brawled down the rough slope of her father's common, she made him vow that he would never again leave her pining.
— from The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

At early morn, when she opened the shutters, after this long mental struggle, and saw the golden dawn spreading its effulgence of glory along the eastern sky, steeping the clouds with splendours of every hue from the rising sun of heaven, himself as yet unseen; and heard the birds salute his coming--the piping thrush and blackbird beginning their morning hymn of praise, with the lark "singing like an angel in the clouds"--a gush of holy love and confidence filled her heart, as if through earth and sky she heard the echo of her Father's name.
— from The Starling: A Scottish Story by Norman Macleod

Most times, either the husks run short, or he gets cloyed with them.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

According to the ticket-collectors and porters and officials at the Crumel railway station, Osip had not even returned to London from that station.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume