So, without further thought, she replied, very simply— “Need I go, dear aunt?
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Alpina scilicet corpora vocum suarum tonitruis altisone perstrepentia, susceptae modulationis dulcedinem proprie non resultant: quia bibuli gutturis barbara feritas dum inflexionibus et repercussionibus mitem nititur edere cantilenam, naturali quodam fragore, quasi plaustra per gradus confuse sonantia, rigidas voces jactat, &c.
— 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

Emily, as she observed him, thought he somewhat resembled Valancourt, in the spirit and dignity of his person; but she looked in vain for the noble, benevolent countenance—the soul's intelligence, which overspread the features of the latter.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

After the building had been packed to its utmost capacity with sweltering folk of both sexes, the stage still remained vacant—the distinguished stranger had failed to connect.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

To this city, from every nation under heaven, merchants bring their commodities by sea, “Arabia’s gold, Sabæa’s spice and incense, Scythia’s keen weapons, and the oil of palms From Babylon’s rich soil, Nile’s precious gems, Norway’s warm peltries, Russia’s costly sables, Sera’s rich vestures, and the wines of Gaul, Hither are sent.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

"Sir," returns Vholes with his inward manner of speech and his bloodless quietude, "I should not have had the presumption to propose myself as a model for your imitation or any man's.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This is the usual starting point of parties to the summit over the South-side route, via Gibraltar.
— from The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams

[Pg 82] A somewhat rare variety is represented on Plate 49.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

The most that he could do was to make some rough vocabularies, learn a few common phrases, and here or there try to teach a little English.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

276 “It was you and the kiddies I was thinking of,” said my husband, in a slightly remote voice.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

He set up his court in the town of Avignon, which then belonged not to France, but to the Papal See, though embedded in French territory, and there his successors remained {v2-100} until 1377, when Pope Gregory XI returned to the Vatican palace in Rome.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Many such run versifying about, and will not try to settle down into any easy sedentary trade, till, getting thirsty through perpetual perspiration, they take to drinking, come to you with subscription-papers for poetry, with a cock in their eye that tells of low tippling-houses, and, accepting your half-crown, slander you when melting it in the purling purlieus of their own donkey-browsed Parnassus.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

In many of his ultra radical and it may be truly said revolutionary views—revolutionary because they changed the structure of the Government—he coincided with Senator Sumner, who was perhaps the leading spirit in the Senate on the subject of reconstruction, but he did not, like the Massachusetts Senator, make any pretence that his project to subjugate the Southern people and reduce their States to the condition of provinces was constitutional, or by authority of the Declaration of Independence.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

Saint Pierre and Miquelon First settled by the French in the early 17th century, the islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency