'And now the morrow was rising in the early east, and the dewy darkness rolled away from the sky by Dawn, when sudden out of the forest advances a human shape strange and unknown, worn with uttermost hunger and pitiably attired, and stretches entreating hands towards the shore.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The latter of those deities Diocletian revered as the patron of his fortunes, the former as the protector of his health.
— 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

Soon afterwards, seeing the Duke de Richelieu at the court, she told him she was certain that Madame de la Popeliniere was not ill.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was during these fruitless quests that he, or rather his ally, was seen by peasants, and that the legend of the demon dog received a new confirmation.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The doctor died rich, and subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist in London with good reputation.—B.] Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise the price.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the year 1726, Aluys, without his mother, who appears to have died in the interval, was at Vienna, where he introduced himself to the Duke de Richelieu, at that time ambassador from the court of France.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could see his face.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For several years she was the mistress of the Duc de Rhetore [A Bachelor's Establishment.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Seadeddin, p. 11, makes the dream distinctly religious, and while not mentioning the love story or Malkhatun by name, infers that Osman receives intimation of his marriage with Edebali’s daughter only through Edebali’s interpretation of the dream.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

Too often through lack of training the tendency is to draw detail right away, without the necessary preliminary of determining the mass shapes.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

How has it happened that, after reading a glowing eulogium in the leading articles of the Times on the prosperous condition of the country, the increase of its exports and imports, the cheapened food of its inhabitants, we read in the next columns of the very same paper a piteous statement from Lord Ashley on the frightful condition of the working-classes in the metropolis—a heart-rending account from Mr Reynolds of the daily declining resources and increasing pauperism of Ireland—an alarming statement, from the official return, of the daily increasing importation of foreign grain, at prices below what it can be raised at in this country—a decisive proof, in the monthly return, of the decline of British and increase of foreign shipping—and Lord Grey's circular to Australia and the Mauritius, announcing the approaching withdrawal of the British troops from those valuable settlements?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

“Yes, among your friends of other times; among those who aided you to contend against the Duc de Richelieu and even to conquer him.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Is Mr. Morsfield haunting Mrs. Lawrence Finchley's house as usual?” Aminta's cheeks unrolled their deep damask rose at the abrupt intrusion of the name.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

In the environs of this fair town, where at the time dwelt Duke Richard, an old man used to beg, whose name was Tryballot, but to whom was given the nickname of Le Vieux par-Chemins, or the Old Man of the Roads; not because he was yellow and dry as vellum, but because he was always in the high-ways and by-ways—up hill and down dale—slept with the sky for his counterpane, and went about in rags and tatters.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It would be well to strike an average with the chapters of Prokesch-Osten on the Duc de Reichstadt and with the book of Montbel on the same subject.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

Under the regency a pistol meeting took place between the Marquise de Nesle and the Countess Polignac for the possession of the Duc de Richelieu; and in more modern times, so late, indeed, as 1827, a Madame B—— at St. 272 Rambert, received a challenge to fight with pistols; and about the same period a lady of Châteauroux, whose husband had received a slap in the face without resenting the insult, called out the offender, and fighting him with swords severely wounded him.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen