According to another story, Proclus applied sulphur to the destruction of the Gothic fleet; 100 in a modern imagination, the name of sulphur is instantly connected with the suspicion of gunpowder, and that suspicion is propagated by the secret arts of his disciple Anthemius.
— 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 folk of Troye, as who seyth, alle and some In preson been, as ye your-selven see; Nor thennes shal not oon on-lyve come 885 For al the gold bitwixen sonne and see.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The sorcerer is paid by the man who asks him to kill or who desires to be healed.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But when the stricture is produced by either of the muscles which lie beneath the aponeurosis of the external oblique, it will be necessary to divide this part in order to expose and incise them.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The cities of Gaul, which had suffered from the inroads of the Barbarians, he diligently repaired; and seven important posts, between Mentz and the mouth of the Rhine, are particularly mentioned, as having been rebuilt and fortified by the order of Julian.
— 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

Their connection with the cross of the Saviour is possible by adoption—as the early Christians adopted many pagan rites and customs—but that they date back to pre-historic times there is abundant testimony.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The justices take a personal share in public business; they are sometimes entrusted with administrative functions in conjunction with elected officers, *r they sometimes constitute a tribunal, before which the magistrates summarily prosecute a refractory citizen, or the citizens inform against the abuses of the magistrate.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

That they did not have scurvy is proved by the fact that they were cured by giving lactate and bicarbonate of soda.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Script is seldom seen, but it is always good form and so is plain block, but with the exception of old English all ornate lettering should be avoided.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Then to church, and placed myself in the Parson’s pew under the pulpit, to hear Mrs. Chamberlain in the next pew sing, who is daughter to Sir James Bunch, of whom I have heard much, and indeed she sings very finely, and from church met with Sir W. Warren and he and I walked together talking about his and my businesses, getting of money as fairly as we can, and, having set him part of his way home, I walked to my Lord Bruncker, whom I heard was at Alderman Hooker’s, hoping to see and salute Mrs. Lethulier, whom I did see in passing, but no opportunity of beginning acquaintance, but a very noble lady she is, however the silly alderman got her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He saw much to amuse and interest him during his short stay in Plattsburgh, but after all he thought it was rather lonesome, and gladly returned to his lakes and mountains, where he slept in peace, with the occasional intrusion of a "Bar" or a "Painter."
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

I had determined not to do so if possible, but when the dreadful feeling came over me that you were, indeed, gone, I could not help my tears from springing and had to rush away and be alone with myself.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Nothing would stay in place, buildings could not be made, people would fly off the earth and go, no one knows whither.
— from Almost a Woman by Mary Wood-Allen

In this Prelude schmaltz is possible but I do not like it.
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

Württemberg , which since 1862 possessed more civil jurisdiction over Catholic church affairs and exercised it more freely (§ 196, 6 ) than Prussia laid claim to in 1873, could all the more easily maintain ecclesiastical peace, since its peaceful Bishop Hefele (§ 189, 3 , 4 ; 191, 7 ) avoided all occasion of conflict and strife.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Her passionate love for her brother had always been the great hopeful and redeeming point of her character, and if she did show it principally by banging his head, she never meant to hurt him.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Ford's father, Sir Richard Ford, was a friend of William Pitt, and twice sat in Parliament, being at one time Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

Simson is perplexed "by the sudden transition of the discourse, in this passage, from threatening to promise,—and this without even any particle to indicate the mutual relation of the sentences and thoughts."
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

It is all very well to say that she is plain; but at Maillebois, on seeing how good and sensible, how admirable she was, I dreamt of her.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

Often in calm, glowing days, while the bees are still on the wing, a storm-cloud may be seen far above in the pure ether, swelling its pearl bosses, and growing silently, like a plant.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir