It has been already observed, that as the wealth of the provinces was attracted to the capital by the strong hand of conquest and power, so a considerable part of it was restored to the industrious provinces by the gentle influence of commerce and arts.
— 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 replied that their inviting the Admiral to a place off their coast and not to the castle at Kumamoto, was like sending for a troupe of tumblers to perform before one's house, into which one would not care to admit them.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

[664] This return of preanimism to naturism is still more marked in Clodd, Preanimistic Stages of Religion ( Trans. Third Inter.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

You fancy for some reason that the ideally beautiful woman must have such a nose as Masha’s, straight and slightly aquiline, just such great dark eyes, such long lashes, such a languid glance; you fancy that her black curly hair and eyebrows go with the soft white tint of her brow and cheeks as the green reeds go with the quiet stream.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Tommy retired to the inn and waited for Albert’s return.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

A rocking type, that is not generally employed, is constructed on the principle of the screen used by housebuilders to separate coarse sand from the fine, and is [Pg 396] pivoted at the middle so that it can be rocked end to end.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Why not declare [ 592 ] the purpose of our Government with the regard to the Islands?
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The senses and the imagination give a form to the character, during childhood and youth; and the understanding as life advances, gives firmness to the first fair purposes of sensibility—till virtue, arising rather from the clear conviction of reason than the impulse of the heart, morality is made to rest on a rock against which the storms of passion vainly beat.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

[He returns to the inner room and sits beside BRACK.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

And in regard to that I especially direct your attention to the prisoner's admission that the idea of adding the 'ty' and the nought did come into his mind at the moment when the cheque was handed to him; and also to the alteration of the counterfoil, and to his subsequent conduct generally.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

Africa and Southern Asia possess many species of Orioles; these it is needless to enumerate, as they closely resemble those that inhabit Europe.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

I think as a matter of fact"—Bennett Godsby looked up at the proscenium arch, and raised his eyebrows, and smoothed the hair back from his forehead—"I really think there is a large section of the public that would be better satisfied if I was never off at all; if, in fact, I carried the whole thing on my shoulders.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon

If we may give rein to the imagination in a matter which without imagination could not be understood at all, we may fancy Plato trying to comprehend the power which beauty exerted over his senses by applying to the objects of love that profound metaphysical distinction which he had learned to make in his dialectical studies—the distinction between the appearance to sense and the reality envisaged by the intellect, between the phenomenon and the ideal.
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana

But the attack on his flank compelled him to give way and retreat toward the intrenchments.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

If war was his object, and Canada were worth it, Sumner's scheme showed genius, and Adams was ready to treat it seriously; but if he thought he could obtain Canada from England as a voluntary set-off to the Alabama Claims, he drivelled.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The book—and when I speak of it I refer to the illustrations and not to the letter-press—was the most brilliant, the most daring, the most original which had ever appeared.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

Londoners, for whom Sussex has a special attraction by reason of its proximity (Brighton's beach is the nearest to the capital in point of time), either pause north of the Downs, or rush through them in trains, on bicycles, or in carriages, to the sea.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Out of these unfortunate victims, three women and one man appear to have been burnt alive; twenty-four women and four men were hanged first and burnt afterwards; one woman was hanged for returning to the island after being banished; three women and one man were whipped and had each an ear cut off; twenty-two women and five men were banished from the island; while five women and three men had the good fortune to be acquitted.
— from Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, with an English Translation and Historical Introduction by John Linwood Pitts

The bell is very heavy, and much ingenuity and labour were required to transport it on men's backs from Cattaro to Cettigne.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

No being acts more rigidly from rule than the Indians, his whole conduct is regulated according to some general maxims early implanted in his mind.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson