The most deserving of the Arabians and Persians were promoted to the honors of the state; and the whole body of the Turkish nation embraced, with fervor and sincerity, the religion of Mahomet.
— 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

Bochart tells us, that, since the religion of Mahomet has taken place, the Arabs look upon Hanes as the devil:
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

31 In all levies, a just preference was given to the climates of the North over those of the South: the race of men born to the exercise of arms was sought for in the country rather than in cities; and it was very reasonably presumed, that the hardy occupations of smiths, 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

But, parting like a thunderbolt, First in the vanguard made a halt, Where such a shout there rose Of “Marmion!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

In the prophetic literature of these States, (the reader of my speculations will miss their principal stress unless he allows well for the point that a new Literature, perhaps a new Metaphysics, certainly a new Poetry, are to be, in my opinion, the only sure and worthy supports and expressions of the American Democracy,) Nature, true Nature, and the true idea of Nature, long absent, must, above all, become fully restored, enlarged, and must furnish the pervading atmosphere to poems, and the test of all high literary and esthetic compositions.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He spoke, and to Videha's king Thus Daśaratha, answering: “Boundless your virtues, lords, whose sway The realms of Mithilá obey.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Finding my first seed did not grow, which I easily imagined was by the drought, I sought for a moister piece of ground to make another trial in, and I dug up a piece of ground near my new bower, and sowed the rest of my seed in February, a little before the vernal equinox; and this having the rainy months of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop; but having part of the seed left only, and not daring to sow all that I had, I had but a small quantity at last, my whole crop not amounting to above half a peck of each kind.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

487 This remark is incorrect, as far as respects nearly the whole of Egypt; see the remarks of Marcus, in Ajasson, ii. 245.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The second, the retired officer, made an unpleasant impression too upon Katavasov.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then it is apparent that deference to the claims of women for protection produces a civilising effect in softening the roughness of men.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

Behind her stood the rich old mahogany sideboard of Colonial pattern, the Graham silver flashing in the quaint gold mirror which hung above it.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

“When I took up the A-Y it was with a determination to keep it and to spend the rest of my days on it in peace.
— from The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford

It had preserved its independence ever since the reign of Mesha, having escaped from being drawn into the wars which had laid waste the rest of Syria.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

When Napoleon I. was in Egypt, in 1799, he rode on a camel to the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, that relic of mystic grandeur.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

Ye must also build me a tower in the midst of the city, wherein I may spend the rest of my days.”
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The palæolithic implements of the French Drift have only been brought to light in our own day; and, though upwards of half a century has elapsed since the researches of Mr. J. MacEnery were rewarded by the discovery of flint implements of the earliest type in the same red loam of the Devonshire limestone caves which embedded bones of the mammoth, tichorhine rhinoceros, cave-bear and other extinct mammals, it is only recently that the full significance of such disclosures has been recognised.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Allowing for fading, it seems to resemble ohionensis more in the lighter color of the anterior part of the median dorsal stripe, than it does either griseus or fisheri .
— from Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

An official report issued in January 1793 at Paris advocated a close alliance with Tippoo Sahib, the Raja of Mysore, and recommended that the French force sent to assist him should threaten or secure the Dutch possessions at the Cape of Good Hope, and in Java and Ceylon.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

We see the races of men, falling, rising, stumbling, advancing and receding—and we see the new race —in the hours of the "Great Noon-tide"—fulfilling its Prophet's hope—and we see the end of that also!
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys