The second time he travelled on the Appian Way 367 , as far as the seventh mile-stone from the city, but he immediately returned, without entering it, having only taken a view of the walls at a distance.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: “The plot is ripe, the matter is arranged.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The bed, the carpet, the chairs the mantelpiece, the dead body, and the rope were each in turn examined, until at last he professed himself satisfied, and with my aid and that of the inspector cut down the wretched object and laid it reverently under a sheet.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is something about a roused woman: especially if she add to all her other strong passions, the fierce impulses of recklessness and despair; which few men like to provoke.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

If it seems to many minds that a social origin cannot be attributed to the categories without depriving them of all speculative value, it is because society is still too frequently regarded as something that is not natural; hence it is concluded that the representations which express it express nothing in nature.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

She has passed a still, sweet life in the convent here; the Superior is the sister of my employer and a very saint on earth; and Sybil knows nothing of the real world except its sufferings.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfriars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as ‘Sixpenn’orth of bad ha’pence,’ hoped ‘I should know him agin to swear to’—in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

92 This argument is most powerfully addressed to a devout Arabian, whose mind is attuned to faith and rapture; whose ear is delighted by the music of sounds; and whose ignorance is incapable of comparing the productions of human genius.
— 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

“My dear Evelina,” said Mrs. Mirvan, “I have been vainly endeavouring to appease her; I pleaded your engagement, and promised your future attendance: but I am sorry to say, my love, that I fear her rage will end in a total breach (which I think you had better avoid) if she is any further opposed.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

No, until each of us shall come to feel that, just as arms were taken up during the period of the upheaval of nations, so now each of us must make a stand against dishonesty, all remedies will end in failure.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Of evil incapable thou, Whose relics with envy I see; No longer in misery now, No longer a sinner, like me.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

[3] A spiritual relationship was established if a man and woman were sponsors to the same child at baptism.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

In 1916 the Ahtanum situation, the gross injustice suffered by these Indians in stolen water rights, was exposed in an illustrated article in an eastern journal of 30,000 copies, under the caption: The Continued Crime Against The Yakimas .
— from The Discards by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

Hopes have been entertained that if that Republic could escape both foreign and civil war for a few years its great natural resources would enable it to honor its obligations.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Innuendoes, words toying with the fringe of things, had made it only too glaringly clear that the Rat was enmeshed in devilishness that ran the gamut of every crime in the decalogue.
— from Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

If the reserve depots necessary for supplying such reinforcements were established in Canada, eight or ten weeks might elapse before they could reach the front....
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

On a member of his family expressing an opinion that he was better, he replied, with evident impatience—"Do not imagine for a moment that I feel the smallest solicitude as to the result."
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

[110] About a mile beyond it lies Cheriton, [295] where the engagement took place between the Royalists and Roundheads, which ended in the former being defeated and pursued all through a dreadful night.
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

With Richter's appearance as conductor, some important changes and reforms were effected in the orchestral arrangements of the Festival.
— from A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Thomas Anderton

38.11 In commemoration also of the victory the Columna Rōstrāta was erected in the Forum.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond