But the power of a monarch was rejected with abhorrence, and the aspiring genius of Rome experienced from the nations of Asia and Africa a more vigorous resistance to her spiritual, than she had formerly done to her temporal, dominion.
— 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

Again, the word reminded the hearer, even by the new mode of its application, that it belonged to a government of recent establishment, and of revolutionary origin, and Napoleon did not wish to present such ideas to the public mind; since that which was but lately erected might be easily destroyed, and that which last arose out of the revolutionary cauldron might, like the phantoms which had preceded it, give place in its turn to an apparition {22} more potent.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

By careful tests it has been determined that a gram of radium emits about twenty-four hundred gram-calories in twenty-four hours.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

We must dispense with troubadours and get our Romance elsewhere.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

There was nothing in these streets to denote the ancient grandeur of Rome, excepting now and then an old and venerable ruin, standing neglected among the other buildings.
— from Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott

He gradually reduced his food to a grain of rice each day.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

The scene upon this occasion was particularly brilliant; the long perspectives, the subdued lighting of the rooms, and the artistic grouping of rare exotics and most exquisite plants and flowers constituting a tout ensemble , the beauty of which will never fade from my memory.
— from The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The idea that a girl of Ruth Erskine’s refinement, and a man of her father’s position, should be brought thus rudely and offensively before the public, jarred upon him, as he had not supposed that anything outside of himself and his own trials could.
— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy

But beyond a mule falling on its back into O.B.1, we had no serious troubles, and got our rations every night with great regularity.
— from The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills