In the three succeeding chapters, I shall relate the wars of Justinian, which achieved the conquest of Africa and Italy; and I shall follow the victories of Belisarius and Narses, without disguising the vanity of their triumphs, or the hostile virtue of the Persian and Gothic heroes.
— 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

The despair of the flying Goths found some consolation in sanguinary revenge; and three hundred youths of the noblest families, who had been sent as hostages beyond the Po, were inhumanly slain by the successor of Totila.
— 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

Forty yards farther it will change its mind again, and face its beds round to another quarter of the compass; and yet all these alternating caprices are each parts of one mighty continuous caprice, which is only masked for a time, as threads of one color are in a patterned stuff by threads of another; and thus from a distance, precisely the same cleavage is seen repeated again and again in different places, forming a systematic structure; while other groups of cleavages will become visible in their turn, either as we change our place of observation, or as the sunlight changes the direction of its fall."
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Finally a large ocean steamer came in sight, rounded up near the wharf and let go her anchor.
— from Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer; Or, A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer

The British government should look in time to this; it owns the other side of the Sault St. Marie, and the Superior country is so rich in timber and minerals that it is called the Denmark of America, whilst a direct access hereafter to the Oregon territory and the Pacific must be opened through the vast chain of lakes towards the Rocky Mountains by way of Selkirk Colony, on the Red River.
— from Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

He watched her out of sight around the bend, and watched till she came into sight returning.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

"So can I," snapped Rosa, rolling the tress up on her finger, holding it in place, and transfixing it with a hair-pin.
— from Salthaven by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The small present-day glaciers still cradled in shaded recesses among the higher peaks ( fig. 6 ) are but miniature replicas of great ice streams that occupied the region during the Ice Age.
— from Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

When she came in, she railed at me like a fury, and charged me with the most monstrous things.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

Followed by a second consonant, it still retains its shortness, e.g. , sits .
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham