Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

And then the night in sweet content On Sarjú's pleasant bank they spent.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He captured Leon, and razed its massive walls and towers to the ground; he seized Barcelona; and, worst of all, he even ventured into the passes of Galicia, and levelled to the ground the splendid church of Santiago de Campostella, which was the focus of countless pilgrimages and almost formed the Kaaba of Europe.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

The remains of his fortune, and of his understanding, were dedicated to the service of the glorious martyr; whose praise, on the day of his festival, Paulinus never failed to celebrate by a solemn hymn; and in whose name he erected a sixth church, of superior elegance and beauty, which was decorated with many curious pictures, from the history of the Old and New Testament.
— 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

Still change of scene, and reviving hopes might restore her; I feared the plague only, and she was untouched by that.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I had paid a visit to General Oglethorpe in the morning,* and was told by him that Dr. Johnson saw company on Saturday evenings, and he would meet me at Johnson's that night.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

And after they had fought together for two hours and more, it chanced the damsel Linet passed that way; and when she saw them she cried out, “Sir Gawain and Sir Gareth, leave your fighting, for ye are brethren!”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Whatever therefore be the secret abstract nature of substance in general, all the ideas we have of particular distinct sorts of substances are nothing but several combinations of simple ideas, co-existing in such, though unknown, cause of their union, as makes the whole subsist of itself.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In some parts, slight curls of smoke emitted a sulphurous smell, proving that the internal fires had lost nothing of their expansive powers, though, having climbed a high acclivity, I could see no volcano for a radius of several miles.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers?
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Now, if, to the saturated solution of the silver acetate, there are added a few drops of a concentrated solution of sodium acetate or some crystals of solid sodium acetate, the concentration of the acetate-ion is thereby increased and the condition of equilibrium in the solution is disturbed: x [CH 3 COO − ] ×
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

Then would they charge vs, that we did not tell them the truth, that they knew the contrary, and therefore we should cal our selues to remembrance, and make them a better answer at the next time, or els we should be rackt, and made to confesse the trueth whether we would or no.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

So in the front of deadly strife he stood; The glorious thunder of the roaring guns, The restless hurricane of screaming shells, The quick, sharp singing of the rifle-balls, The sudden clash of sabres, and the beat Of rapid horse-hoofs galloping at charge, Made a great chorus to his valorous soul, The dreadful music of a grappling world, That hurried him to fight.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

However, the gentlemen concerned in the business, were too generous to let this influence their determination; therefore, when convinced that it would not only be stronger constructed of stone, but also more speedily erected, they did not hesitate a moment, but determined that it should be rebuilt in the very best manner; and such was their confidence in Mr. Smeaton's honour and integrity, that they left the accomplishment of the plan entirely to him.
— from Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux

GERAINT, a knight of King Arthur GERDA, wife of Frey GERI, one of Odin's two wolves GERYON, a three bodied monster GESNES, navigator sent for Isoude the Fair GIALLAR HORN, the trumpet that Heimdal will blow at the judgment day GIANTS, beings of monstrous size and of fearful countenances, represented as in constant opposition to the gods, in Wagner's Nibelungen Ring GIBICHUNG RACE, ancestors of Alberich GIBRALTAR, great rock and town at southwest corner of Spain (See Pillars of Hercules) GILDAS, a scholar of Arthur's court GIRARD, son of Duke Sevinus GLASTONBURY, where Arthur died GLAUCUS, a fisherman, loving Scylla GLEIPNIR, magical chain on the wolf Fenris GLEWLWYD, Arthur's porter GOLDEN FLEECE, of ram used for escape of children of Athamas, named Helle and Phryxus (which See), after sacrifice of ram to Jupiter, fleece was guarded by sleepless dragon and gained by Jason and Argonauts (which See, also Helle) GONERIL, daughter of Leir GORDIAN KNOT, tying up in temple the wagon of Gordius, he who could untie it being destined to be lord of Asia, it was cut by Alexander the Great,
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

[Sidenote: Conquests of Sulla in Greece.]
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord