When the Arabian conquerors had spread themselves over the East, and were mingled with the servile crowds of Persia, Syria, and Egypt, they insensibly lost the freeborn and martial virtues of the desert.
— 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 separate forms potis sum , &c., or pote sum , &c., are also used, and sometimes even potis or pote alone takes the place of a verb; in either case potis and pote are indeclinable, and are applied to gender words and neuters both.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

She crept on, poor soul, like a criminal afraid of being taken, and felt little beyond the terror of falling down while it was yet daylight, and being found alive.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And Eleanor, with a command of countenance which did honour to her concern for his character, taking an early occasion of saying to her, “My father only wanted me to answer a note,” she began to hope that she had either been unseen by the general, or that from some consideration of policy she should be allowed to suppose herself so.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

A number of other works, some certainly, others probably spurious, and a few possibly genuine, have been attributed to him.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

As soon as it is light, children of the peasantry hasten to provide a small cup of pure spring water, just from the well, and go about sprinkling the faces of those they meet, with the aid of a sprig of evergreen.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Stellenmarkt job market Stellenvermittlung job centre Stellenwahl choice of employment Stellfläche für Kinderwagen pram park stellt die Ware zur Verfügung makes the goods available Stellungssuchender job seeker Stellungswechsel change of position Stellungswechsel; Wechsel der Arbeitsstelle change of employment stellvertretender Generaldirektor assistant general manager stellvertretender Vorsitzender vice-chairman Stellvertreter; Stellvertretung proxy Stempelmarke revenue stamp Stempelsteuer stamp duty Stempelsteuer; Stempelgebühr; Stempelabgabe stamp duty Stempeluhr time clock stenographieren; in Kurzschrift schreiben write in shorthand Stenotypistin typist Stentypistin shorthand typist Sterbegeld death benefit Sterbegeld funeral allowance Sterbegeld funeral benefit Sterblichkeit death rate Sterblichkeitstabelle mortality table
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I generally expect pupils who come to me to go through a short course of preparatory study with my assistant, Miss Madeleine Prosser, who has been with me for years, and does most thorough work in this line.
— from Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Harriette Brower

The value of all capital is commercial, and accidental, and depends on the ever shifting conditions of political society.
— from Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man by Calvin Colton

With a simple mystical piety, which led him to believe that he was a special child of Providence, Stilling combined an intelligence and a zeal for knowledge which gave his words and his actions an individual stamp.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Of the wonderful Feats which the various Kinds of Witches were supposed capable of performing, Scott has favored us with the following succinct Enumeration.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3) by Robert Calef

How can the Englishman be expected to come into sympathy with the fiction that has New England for its subject—from Hawthorne's down to that of our present novelists—when he is ignorant of the whole background on which it is cast; when all the social conditions are an enigma to him; when, if he has, historically, some conception of Puritan society, he cannot have a glimmer of comprehension of the subtle modifications and changes it has undergone in a century?
— from England by Charles Dudley Warner