A strong barrier of arms and fortifications defended the Bosphorus: they were eluded by the usual expedient of drawing the boats over the isthmus; and this simple operation is described in the national chronicles, as if the Russian fleet had sailed over dry land with a brisk and favorable gale.
— 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

[413] Herr G. H. Schneider, in his youthful pamphlet (Die Unterscheidung, 1877) has tried to show that there are no positively existent elements of sensibility, no substantive qualities between which differences obtain, but that the terms we call such, the sensations, are but sums of differences, loci or starting points whence many directions of difference proceed. ' Unterschiedsempfindungs-Complexe ' are what he calls them.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It is true there was a sound of disrespectful laughter.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘Good-bye!’ 'Ah!’ said old David, looking after him.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Y a propósito, ¿el chicle de mascar se obtiene de los mismos árboles de donde se extrae el caucho?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The French translator, following the hint of Huebner, gives the following passage from Sextus Empiricus (a physician of the Sceptic school, about B.C. 250), in his work against the Philosophers, which he says may serve to rectify and complete the statement of Diogenes Laërtius.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

why, you’ll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.”
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The difference between the surface of drained land and water-soaked land is much the same as that between land in dry weather under good cultivation, and land just saturated by rain.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

I was walkin in Regent Street one day last week, enjoyin your rich black fog and bracing rains, when all at once the Sun bust out and actooally shone for nearly half an hour steady.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters by Artemus Ward

Social and Political Results On the side of daily life, it fared with Protestantism as with the early Church: where it was warred upon it was socially circumspect; where it had easier course it was lax.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Even the voluptuous Moore is said to have repaired his fame and prolonged his days by settling down into the sobrieties of domestic life.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, September 1850 by Various

Nothing seemed definitely wrong, only a sort of desperate lassitude; as if the knowledge that to go back was within her power, only needing her decision, had been too much for her.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

If this boy should one day learn-—-" "Learn what?
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

A few years before the construction of the Central Pacific, Knoxville, about ten miles south of Donner Lake, and Elizabethtown, some six miles from Truckee, were famous mining camps.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

SONNET Ses purs ongles très haut dédiant leur onyx, L'Angoisse ce minuit, soutient, lampadophore, Maint rêve vespéral brûle par le phénix Que ne recueille pas de cinéraire amphore Sur les crédences, au salon vide: nul ptyx, Aboli bibelot d'inanité sonore, (Car le maître est allé puiser des pleurs au Styx Avec ce seul objet dont le Néant s'honore.)
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

When the rays emanate from the centre of the triangle, it is a symbol of divine light.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey