Soon afterwards, he deprived her of all honour and power, took from her the guard of Roman and German soldiers, banished her from the palace and from his society, and persecuted her in every way he could contrive; employing persons to harass her when at Rome with law-suits, and to disturb her in her retirement from town with the most scurrilous and abusive language, following her about by land and sea.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[Transcribers Note: Diagram XIV ], although but slightly curved, express some energy, where the straight lines of our former diagram expressed repose, and then how in B and C the increasing curvature of the lines increases the energy expressed, until in D, where the lines sweep round in one vigorous swirl, a perfect hurricane is expressed.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

An enormous grub of the cockchafer race, a great white worm, rolled himself over, trying to liberate himself and to crush the ants, whose number increased on every side, and who tore off his transparent, soft skin, and pulled him in every direction.
— from Piccolissima by Adélaïde de Montgolfier

These holes can be made in two ways: one, by forming lugs or bosses on the shank and punching holes in each one, or, a sharp tapered round punch, flat and sharp on the end, can be used to split the metal and force the sides out as the punch is driven in.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

When these things happened, Aunt Florence was called in as a matter of course; and she set the fractures, and salved the burns, and stopped the flow of sawdust, and proved herself in every way a most skillful nursery surgeon and physician.
— from Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

He shrugged his shoulders and protested his ignorance even of the names of the men with whom Dinsmore had gambled.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

On this it may be observed that the influence of Lord Cowley and Lord Clarendon would probably have sufficed to turn him from such a plan had it entered into the Emperor’s mind; and had he delivered the blow, in defiance of their protests, or without consulting them, England, at that time, would have been enraged at the treachery, and would have certainly occupied Antwerp.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

Forester himself, a disciple of Rousseau, a fervent anti-slavery man who goes to the length of refusing his guests sugar, and an ideologist in many other ways, is also an ambitious sketch; and Peacock has introduced episodes after the fashion of eighteenth-century fiction, besides a great number of satirical excursions dealing with his enemies of the Lake school, with paper money, and with many other things and persons.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

If an honest bit of work, noting distances, detailing expenses, naming landmarks, moors, mountains, harbours, docks, buildings—indeed, anything which, as lawyers say, savours of realty—and but scantily interspersed with reflections, and with no quotations, why, then, such a piece of work, however long publication may be delayed—and a century or two will not matter in the least—cannot fail, whenever it is printed, to attract attention, to excite general interest and secure a permanent hold in every decent library in the kingdom.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell