Many families of Aquileia, Padua, and the adjacent towns, who fled from the sword of the Huns, found a safe, though obscure, refuge in the neighboring islands.
— 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

In spite of everything, I thought that Captain Nemo must have kept up some type of relationship with the shore.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

,” said the one, “read D’Holbach, read the ‘Encyclopaedia’!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

She talked of Florence, where Mr. Osmond lived and where Mrs. Touchett occupied a medieval palace; she talked of Rome, where she herself had a little pied-à-terre with some rather good old damask.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

For a few moments I looked him fixedly in the face, trying to discern thereon even a slight trace of repentance.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Then he crost the court, And spied not any light in hall or bower, But saw the postern portal also wide Yawning; and up a slope of garden, all Of roses white and red, and brambles mixt And overgrowing them, went on, and found, Here too, all hushed below the mellow moon, Save that one rivulet from a tiny cave Came lightening downward, and so spilt itself Among the roses, and was lost again.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The spiritual person, then, being such that he has in himself no element of decomposition, has no need, for the preservation of his own existence, to be continually occupied with efforts to maintain "the accurate correspondence of subjective to objective relations.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Seria has received the surname of Fama Julia 920 , Nertobriga that of Concordia Julia 921 , Segida that of Restituta Julia 922 , and Contributa 923 that of Julia.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

but it was not foolish to be affected with some tenderness of regard for a place in which I had seen him a great deal, from whence I had often issued a better and a happier man than when I went in, and which had often appeared to my imagination while I trod its pavements, in the solemn darkness of the night, to be sacred to wisdom and piety.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

"But ain't we goin' to search the other rooms?"
— from A Runaway Brig; Or, An Accidental Cruise by James Otis

At its close in 1122 the Church and the Empire were counterposed as mutually exclusive autocracies, the one claiming illimitable spiritual sway, the other recognized as no less illimitably paramount in civil society.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

If the collection be made for any charitable or missionary society the official receipt for the money collected and sent should also be affixed to the church door.
— from Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by George Henry Sumner

"Strong and steady the order rang out: 'Number one, fire!
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

This breed is the only one which differs in its mental qualities, for it is said to be much more sociable than other rabbits, and the male shows no wish to destroy its young.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

“Dunno, lad,” said the other, rubbing his brow with his arm; “but there’s something wrong.”
— from Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn