So in literature, which is the art that expresses life in words that appeal to our own sense of the beautiful, we have many writers but few artists.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The countess-dowager of Edessa retired to Jerusalem with her two children; the daughter, Agnes, became the wife and mother of a king; the son, Joscelin the Third, accepted the office of seneschal, the first of the kingdom, and held his new estates in Palestine by the service of fifty knights.
— 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

For as all the Church, because it was made a Church by the death of Him that gave it life, is wont to bear the sign of His Holy Cross on the forehead, to the end, that it may, by the constant protection of His banner, be defended from the assaults of evil spirits, and by the frequent admonition of the same be taught, in like manner, to crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts; 983 so also it behoves those, who having either taken the vows of a monk, or having the degree of a clerk, must needs curb themselves the more strictly by continence, for the Lord's sake, to bear each one of them on his head, by the tonsure, the form of the crown of thorns which He bore on His head in His Passion, that He might bear the thorns and thistles of our sins, that is, that he might bear them away and take them from us; to the end that they may show on their foreheads that they also willingly, and readily, endure all scoffing and [pg 372] reproach for his sake; and that they may signify that they await always ‘the crown of eternal life, which God hath promised to them that love him,’ 984 and that for the sake of attaining thereto they despise both the evil and the good of this world.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

I hurried straight across the road, which was happily clear, and hardly heeding which way I went, in the fright of detection the incident had given me, plunged into the afternoon throng of Oxford Street.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

186 In ten minutes Jo came running down stairs with a very red face, and the general appearance of a person who had just passed through a trying ordeal of some sort.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

For if this Medium be rarer within the Sun's Body than at its Surface, and rarer there than at the hundredth part of an Inch from its Body, and rarer there than at the fiftieth part of an Inch from its Body, and rarer there than at the Orb of Saturn ; I see no reason why the Increase of [Pg 351] density should stop any where, and not rather be continued through all distances from the Sun to Saturn , and beyond.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

" If this attempt failed, M. Verdurin would set off across country until he came to a telegraph office or some other kind of messenger, after first finding out which of the 'faithful' had anyone whom they must warn.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

but that these humours, which thus alter the operations of sight, predominate in beasts, and are usual with them?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

So too all the objects of sight, unless they are brought under the eyes of the beholder together with light, are altogether deprived of visibility.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

68 28 I have only very briefly to advert to one other subject, before closing these remarks on the government of the English leper hospitals.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

And with this accordeth that of our Saviour, Ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man , John 7. 22.
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

Each swinging tongue has its tale to tell, a tale of old Spain, of Spanish galleons and Spanish gentlemen adventurers, of gentle-voiced priests and sombre-eyed Indians, of conquest, revolt, intrigue, and sudden death.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

In the afternoon two of our spies came back and confirmed the intelligence.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If, however, beauty is but the expression of the invisible under the visible and sensible forms, then all that [Pg 429] is necessary to produce emotion is simply the perception of the object thus expressive, since the moment it is perceived, it is perceived as expressing something, and thus, appealing to our own spiritual nature, awakens immediate emotion.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

"When those three are together outside of school they always quarrel.
— from Maezli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys by Johanna Spyri

I wish, said the mother, you could all be advised, to look upon the present evils as trifling, by considering that at this present moment, there are thousands of our species suffering the most dreadful tortures; it is our duty to contribute as much as possible to general happiness, by forbearance and patience.
— from The Surprising and Singular Adventures of a Hen as Related by Herself to Her Family of Chickens by Anonymous

The oxygen would grow thinner and thinner, once our supplies of bottled gas ran out.
— from Let 'Em Breathe Space! by Lester Del Rey