The sagacious Chardin could find no gold in mines, rivers, or elsewhere.
— 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

Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, Carthaginensis, artis oratoriae professione clarus, magnam sibi gloriam, opes, honores acquisivit, epularibus caenis et largis dapibus assuetus, pretiosa veste conspicuus, auro atque purpura fulgens, fascibus oblectatus et honoribus, stipatus clientium cuneis, frequentiore comitatu officii agminis honestatus, ut ipse de se loquitur in Epistola ad Donatum.
— 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

In a still bigger house, the second cook cooks for the servants always, and for the children sometimes, and assists the cook by preparing certain plainer portions of the meals, the cook preparing all dinner dishes, sauces and the more elaborate items on the menu.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Or try and draw some cumulus clouds from imagination, several groups of them 186 across a sky, and you will find how often again you have repeated unconsciously the same forms.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Chambers overstepped the line three times, and got three such convincing canings from the man who was his father and didn’t know it, that he took Tom’s cruelties in all humility after that, and made no more experiments.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

So within a community acts of relatively stringent control coming from ruling agencies, civil and religious, begin with and are qualified by this ceremonial control which not only initiates but in a sense envelops all other.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[Pg 209] selves lightly nor for small complaints concerning foreigners, when it was in their power to settle a part of the difficulty and divert the rest of it upon the heads of those who had been active in the matter.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Sandstone, Old Red.—Again succeeds the limestone, and continues to the N.W. to a considerable distance over a poor and scrubby country, covered for the most part with a dwarf species of Eucalyptus.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

A few spoonfuls ad libitum , so as to take 1 to 3 pints in the 24 hours; in strangury, calculus, coughs, fevers, &c. Mixture of Monesia. (Neligan.)
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"She could carry full sail, well enough," he said to Harry, "but there is no occasion for haste; and it is always best to be on the safe side, especially when a middy is in command.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

By S. Whitchurch Sadler , Author of “The Ship of Ice,” “Perilous Seas,” &c. Coloured Frontispiece and Illustrations.
— from Landseer's Dogs and Their Stories by Sarah Tytler

Hail thou, O Nurse of Zeus, O Caverned Haunt Where fierce arms clanged to guard God's cradle rare, For thee of old some crested Corybant First woke in Cretan air [Pg 13] The wild orb of our orgies, Our Timbrel; and thy gorges Rang with this strain; and blended Phrygian chant And sweet keen pipes were there.
— from The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripides