And thereafter will come summer, the season of reaping, endless reaping; for suddenly the crops will have ripened, and rye-sheaf will be lying heaped upon rye-sheaf, with, elsewhere, stocks of barley, and of oats, and of wheat.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

But he indulged a spirit of revenge equally repugnant to prudence and to justice, when he degraded their native country of Lycia from the rank of Roman provinces; stigmatized a guiltless people with a mark of ignominy; and declared, that the countrymen of Tatian and Proculus should forever remain incapable of holding any employment of honor or advantage under the Imperial government.
— 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

Then, as the cloth (A) passes between the main cylinder, properly covered by suitable intervening materials and the series of rollers, each roller in turn prints its own color, and, collectively, the finished pattern is produced.
— from The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

By this complex system of reasoning Edith Rogers justified herself in her intention to force from West a declaration of his love, and justified herself so completely that, when she joined him at the entrance to the apartment, she had almost convinced herself that she was about to commit a most laudable and praiseworthy act.
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

Betty, Anne and Jane shared one room; Emmy, Ruth and Marian another.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights by Margaret Love Sanderson

Fate is responsible, not I— "'In spite of Reason, erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.'
— from Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph

Over some of the “suspect” the Judge-Advocates for a time vacillated, whether to include them in the indictment or to use them as witnesses; but, after a season of rigid examinations, renewed and revised, they at last concluded that such persons would be more available in the latter capacity.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

between A., Miss Willard and Taft, shd. be made by woman, 721 ; her bust shall be in Senate and White House, it pleases Miss W., at Salem, O., reads Emily Robinson's paper, approves South.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

No—year after year that magic Sesame of ‘Renan, Ernest Renan!’ will keep open for me the portals of the enchanted palace of Youth.”
— from The Oxford Circus: A Novel of Oxford and Youth by Hamish Miles