Book V shows us Eve relating her dream to Adam, and then the morning prayer and the daily employment of our first parents.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Si una eademque res legatur 14 duobus, alter rem, alter valorem rei, &c. A pretty case of paltry legacies!
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

There was one lazy fellow who went out alone every morning like the others, but only until he found a sunny slope, when he would stretch out by the side of a rock to sleep until evening, returning then to camp empty-handed, but with his moccasins torn and a long story of how he had tramped all day and found nothing.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But though in this view of things we cannot refuse to condemn the materialists, who conjoin all thought with extension; yet a little reflection will show us equal reason for blaming their antagonists, who conjoin all thought with a simple and indivisible substance.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Immediately after this conference, it should seem that some unexpected emergency required the emperor's presence in Pannonia.
— 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

There is one slider under each row.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

[163] light Which guideth surely upon every road.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Hey! what's that?" said Uncle Enos, rousing from the doze he was enjoying, with a candle in perilous proximity to his newspaper and his nose.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

A mist of fine, drizzling rain enveloped the whole country, swallowing up every ray of light, every gleam of colour, and transforming everything into one smoky, leaden, indistinguishable mass.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Such faults are like the spots upon ermine, rather ornamental than otherwise; but if any one says you dress ill, I have not a syllable to say.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Nothing came of this grandiose project, though the burning ruins of Southampton, the capture of the great Christopher , which had borne Edward in 1338 to Antwerp, and the occupation of the Channel Islands—the last remnants of the old duchy still under English rule—showed that the Normans were in earnest.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

"Show us Edward Rajah!"
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

Economic aid: recipient: $1.2 billion (1997 pledged) Currency: 1 convertible marka = 100 convertible pfenniga; former currencies still used Exchange rates: NA Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 727,000 Telephone system: telephone and telegraph network
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Ozma, being that she was only a little girl after all, began to scream until Elephant reached into the pocket with his trunk and retrieved the rodent.
— from The Forest Monster of Oz by Chris Dulabone

All ran smoothly until Eve raised Cain, and thus our ancestors (after the monkeys) kept up a constant increase until Noah got inside dope about the flood, whereupon he built the Ark. Our troubles might have been relegated to the word finis, but Noah stuck up a good old boat and saved his wife, his animals, and their wives.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various