And as he cast his eyes around, he viewed, and he admired, the commanding situation of the city, the strength and beauty of the walls and public edifices, the capacious harbor, crowded with innumerable vessels, the perpetual concourse of distant nations, and the arms and discipline of the troops.
— 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

42 These suggestions are based on the comment of Major Martin Herz, who prepared the leaflets at Anzio beachhead and subsequently was leaflet expert at SHAEF.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Clearly a difficult 'point' for Government, that of dealing with these masses;—if indeed it be not rather the sole point and problem of Government, and all other points mere accidental crotchets, superficialities, and beatings of the wind!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

'And have you grown so fickle that you don't like your own taste, Pa dear?' 'Well, my love,' he returned, swallowing a bit of the cottage loaf with considerable effort, for it seemed to stick by the way: 'I should have thought it was hardly sufficiently splendid for existing circumstances.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Dipinsa sa awtu, Bumper of the car.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If I should detail the pick and the wale O' lasses that live here awa, man, The fau't wad be mine if they didna shine The sweetest and best o' them a', man.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The sides and brinks of the ditches were of damp clay; but in no one place could they discern the print of men's shoes, or the slightest mark which would indicate that any feet had pressed the ground for hours before.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And I would go and sit down beside the pump and its trough, ornamented here and there, like a gothic font, with a salamander, which modelled upon a background of crumbling stone the quick relief of its slender, allegorical body; on the bench without a back, in the shade of a lilac-tree, in that little corner of the garden which communicated, by a service door, with the Rue du Saint-Esprit, and from whose neglected soil rose, in two stages, an outcrop from the house itself and apparently a separate building, my aunt's back-kitchen.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

To these succeeded a bottle or two of very good wine, for which a messenger was despatched by Mr. Pickwick to the Horn Coffee-house, in Doctors’ Commons.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

And, taking it for Nature, place in ban Our Mother, as a Power wanton-willed, The shame and baffler of the soul of man, The recreant, reptilious.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

The size and beauty of the winter house was also a revelation.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

"It has become known to us," continued the Secretary, "that this dangerous spy—dangerous because of the example she has set, and because of the connections that she may have here—has just escaped from the city.
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Half the space to their destination had been crossed, when a band of rioters, rushing down the street from the sack and burning of the Orphan Asylum, came upon them.
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

But they have no leader bold enough to start a riot, and they have no weapons, and the spears and bows of the Prince's Nubians look dangerous.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie

But now-a-days, utilitarian theories, as they call them, have come to the fore,—‘We are never so well served as by ourselves,’ ‘There’s no shame in attending to one’s own business,’ and many other bourgeois maxims which have suppressed the role of intermediaries.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But, in place of now bearing totemic names, the "gentes" of these people are at present distinguished by obvious and even odious nicknames, such as "Breakers of the Law," because members of this gens disregarded the marriage law by taking wives within the gens .
— from Method in the Study of Totemism by Andrew Lang

When I became a man and he was still a boy of thirteen, I wrote a little paper called ‘Dead this Twenty Years,’ which was about a similar tragedy in another woman’s life, and it is the only thing I have written that she never spoke about, not even to that daughter she loved the best.
— from Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie