40 Had Germany been reduced into the state of a province, the Romans, with immense labor and expense, would have acquired only a more extensive boundary to defend against the fiercer and more active barbarians of Scythia.
— 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

Proceeding further Heracles recognized Ascalaphus, who, as we have seen in the history of Demeter, had revealed the fact that Persephone had swallowed the seeds of a pomegranate offered to her by her husband, which bound her to Aïdes for ever.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

1 Co. 12.24; to run short, Jno. 2.3; mid. to come short of a privilege or standard, to miss, Ro. 3.23; absol.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

W.V.R. Smith and James N. Jarvie retired from the firm in 1906; and John Arbuckle and his nephew W.A. Jamison continued it as sole owners and partners until Mr. Arbuckle's death in 1912.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with significant nods, “We can finish this some other time, you know.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King’s mistress, and filled my eyes Saw “Mackbeth,” to our great content Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport Saw “The German Princess” acted, by the woman herself Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves Saying me to be the fittest man in England Saying, that for money he might be got to our side Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here Says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth Sceptic in all things of religion Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so Scotch song of “Barbary Allen” Searchers with their rods in their hands See a dead man lie floating upon the waters See her look dejectedly and slighted by people already See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She sat in her study, with one foot on the ground, and the other upon a high stool at some distance from her seat; her sandy locks hung down, in a disorder I cannot call beautiful, from her head, which was deprived of its coif, for the benefit of scratching with one hand, while she held the stump of a pen in the other.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It suggests only a parcel of petty chiefs—ill-clad and ill-conditioned savages much like our Indians, who lived in full sight of each other and whose “kingdoms” were large when they were five miles square and contained two thousand souls.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And when, with his second sense of another presence, he knew she was coming, he was satisfied, he was at rest.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

" The log moved slowly on, and presently catching in a stronger current, swept out into the stream again.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

From such histories we may gather a great array of useless, and, for the most part, perfectly uncertain and unreliable "facts," but of the true story of a people scarce anything more than a few doubtful indications.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

The men of science who spend whole months in gnawing at the bone of an antediluvian monster, in calculating the laws of nature, when there is an opportunity to peer into her secrets, the Grecians and Latinists who dine on a thought of Tacitus, sup on a phrase of Thucydides, spend their life in brushing the dust from library shelves, in keeping guard over a commonplace book, or a papyrus, are all predestined.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

Any person who broke the law by introducing one of these animals into the holy precinct, had to purify the place by a sacrifice; and the same atonement had to be made by any man who brought shoes or any portion of a pig within the sacred boundaries.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

I imagine it is a sort of a palace.
— from The Little Colonel's House Party by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

98 The uppermost in the cauldrons is the fatt, which they skimme off, and put it into hogsheads and pipes.
— from The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 Reprinted from the Edition of 1622 by Hawkins, Richard, Sir

Connected with the sizing of papers is the blueing, which is said to have originated in the suggestion of a paper-maker's wife, who thought that the practice of improving the color of linen while passing through the wash, by means of a blue bag, might also be advantageously applied to paper.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

Sometimes it will be found that the patient has the habit of sitting on a particular easy chair in a special relation to the light and that in order to accommodate himself to his chair and the light in his reading, the head has to be placed in such position that the neck muscles are constrained.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh