But the condition of the slave was far more advantageous, since he regained, by the first manumission, his alienated freedom: the son was again restored to his unnatural father; he might be condemned to servitude a second and a third time, and it was not till after the third sale and deliverance, that he was enfranchised from the domestic power which had been so repeatedly abused.
— 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

When he was gone, she went all round the house from the bottom to the top, and examined everything.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“Wait till the corporal comes down.” Basilio bit his lips and Simoun’s words again recurred to him.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The language of birds is excellent in its way, and those ancient sages who are reported to have understood it very likely had merely perceived that it was not meant to be intelligible; for it is not to understand nature to reduce her childishly to a human scale.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Presently a window opens, and somebody pitches you a sixpence, with a request to “Hush up and go on,” etc.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This I supposed was a relief to his lungs; and seemed in him to be a contemptuous mode of expression, as if he had made the arguments of his opponent fly like chaff before the wind.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The queen finished her dinner without uttering a single word, and retired to her apartments the same way as she had come.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Susan was always ready to hear and to sympathise.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

They fell into the suggestion with a readiness that had something uncanny about it.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

“I believe it's John who is at the bottom of it, because he 's wearing a red tie,” Herold interposed, with a laugh.
— from Stella Maris by William John Locke

"Thank you, Mr. Rickman," said she with a return to her old demeanour.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

Out of the shaft alley came Scraggs with a rush, tossing his wrench aside the better to climb the ladder.
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

His story was a revelation to her.
— from The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

"That the members of the House of Representatives of the United States have heard with profound sorrow and feelings akin to horror the reports of the persecutions of the Jews in Russia, reflecting the barbarism of past ages, disgracing humanity and impeding the progress of civilization; that our sorrow is intensified by the fact that such occurrences should happen in a country which has been, and is now, the firm friend of the United States, and in a nation that clothed itself with glory, not long since, by the emancipation of its serfs and by its defence of helpless Christians from the oppression of the Turks; that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of State with a request that he send it to the American Minister at St. Petersburg and that said Minister be directed to present the same to His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, Czar of all the Russias." FOOTNOTES:
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

This is a usage of the Irish language; for the word baile [bally], which is now used for home , means also, and in an old sense, a place, a spot, without any reference to home.
— from English As We Speak It in Ireland by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

He had re-ascended the slope a short way, and received the human avalanche on his right shoulder, was knocked down violently as a matter of course, and the two went spinning in a heap together to the bottom.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

March 10.] and of the property which they had acquired, as the infallible consequences of the restoration of the royal exile; and they so far wrought on the fears of the officers, that an engagement to oppose all attempts to set up a single person was presented[a] to Monk for his signature, with a request that he would solicit the concurrence of the parliament.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc