At the head of the Turkish emirs, Baghisian, a veteran chief, commanded in the place: his garrison was composed of six or seven thousand horse, and fifteen or twenty thousand foot: one hundred thousand Moslems are said to have fallen by the sword; and their numbers were probably inferior to the Greeks, Armenians, and Syrians, who had been no more than fourteen years the slaves of the house of Seljuk.
— 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

We see again the figure of our Lord standing on the heads of swine, but the lower figure is represented with a hawk, the sign of nobility, and is probably that of a person to whom the cross is a memorial.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Yet since, now a week ago, they came on me, as I stood on the height of St. Peter's, they have ruled my imagination.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This is the case (among others), with the whole low country of the shire of Ross” (Extract from Lord Lovat’s Memorial to George I. on the State of the Highlands of Scotland, in A.D. 1724).
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The Slavs?)—The ballet, which is the outcome of excessive study of the history of strange civilisations, has become master of opera.—Stage music and musicians music.—It is an error to suppose that what Wagner composed was a. form : it was rather formlessness.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

433 Stipant = pack , the notion of pushing and tightness being given in the very sound of the heavy overhanging spondees in this line.—S. 435 Ignavum . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

this is appended the sister science of the harmony of sounds.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The remains of one of these circuses was not long ago discovered in Paris whilst they were engaged in laying the foundations for a new street, on the west side of the hill of St. Geneviève, a short distance from the old palace of the Caesars, known by the name of the Thermes of Julian.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Mile after mile the road follows section lines and one is rarely out of sight of the house of some "homesteader."
— from Dinosaurs, with Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by William Diller Matthew

Studies of the Head of Saskia and others.
— from Rembrandt, With a Complete List of His Etchings by Arthur Mayger Hind

It is a truthful one as far as my experience goes, for I have passed through Stow on the hottest of summer days and found it none too warm there even then.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey

The sultan disdained to pursue the fugitive Greeks; but he meditated the more glorious conquest of Turkestan, the original seat of the house of Seljuk.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

To secure a safe embarkation, Moore turned sharply on the head of Soult's army, and drove it back at the battle of Corunna (Jan. 16, 1809).
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Charitable institutions were not overlooked, and the Princess Rospigliosi Champigny de Cadore received fifty thousand francs towards the support of the house of St. Mary Magdalen, the object of which was the preservation of young women in the city of Rome.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Between us and it was a comparatively level stretch of rock, with a layer of thin soil upon it, from from which grew dwarf bushes, and everywhere were scattered boulders, some of them huge, others smaller.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

And in all the air, dropping from the heaven, spread on the hills, or shimmering on the lake, a diffusion of purest rose and deepest blue, lake and cloud and mountain each melting into the other, as though heaven and earth conspired merely to give value and relief to the year's new birth, to this near sparkle of young leaf and blossom which shone like points of fire on the deep breast of the distance.
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.