Gallus, the emperor, having concluded his wars, a plague broke out in the empire: sacrifices to the pagan deities were ordered by the emperor, and persecutions spread from the interior to the extreme parts of the empire, and many fell martyrs to the impetuosity of the rabble, as well as the prejudice of the magistrates.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

[Clark, June 16, 1806] Monday June 16th 1806 Collected our horses early and Set Out 7 A M proceeded on up the Creek through a gladey Swompy bottom with grass and quawmash Crossed the Creek to the East and proceeded on through most intolerable bad fallen timber over a high Mountain on which great quantity of Snow is yet lying premisquissly through the thick wood, and in maney places the banks of snow is 4 feet deep.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This necessary and universal resistance with which everyone meets me, a resistance therefore evident a priori , can be due to no other cause than the injustice with which such a maxim threatens everyone.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam—and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The condition of my immature mind which I have described was fostered both by the example and precept of the time, and I am not sure that the effects of these are not lingering on to the present day.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

But George explained that, according to Euclid, a plane can touch a sphere only at one point, and that person only who stands at that point, with respect to the centre of the earth, will stand upright.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The "schallern" (from shale , a shell, or bowl), was really a helmet and visor in one piece; it had a slit for the eyes, a projecting brim, and a long tail, and was completed by a chin-piece, or "bavier" (Eng.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“Are they good to eat?” asked Pencroft.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

"— 'The Excellent and Pleasant Worke of Julius Solinus Polyhistor. Translated out of Latin into English by Arthur Golding, Gent.'
— from The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

With Cavalry in 1915 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman

Sir Hugh, making such calculations as the moments allowed, determined that he would face the enemy, and pass on to his banquet over her prostrate body.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

These examples of woman's competence to compose plays with vitality enough to withstand the ordeal by fire before the footlights are evidence that if there exists any prejudice against the female dramatist it can be overcome.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

pt. 1, p. 366.] Edmund Batter, treasurer of Salem, brought the children to the town, and went to a shipmaster who was about to sail, to engage a passage to Barbadoes.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams

5,) they are valuable in nature, and used as she uses them, are equally valuable (as instantaneous discords) in art; but the artist who should seek after these exclusively, and paint nothing else, though he might be able to point to something in nature as the original of every one of his uglinesses, would yet be, in the strict sense of the word, false,—false to nature, and disobedient to her laws.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Congress will, no doubt, weigh these circumstances against the expense and probable success of compelling a peace by arms.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

He engraved on his broad- swords the well-known lines— Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

The enthusiasm and patience, the efforts and sacrifices, of the generations which came before you, little boy, were necessary to save you, to save your country, to save the world, born of light and born unto light, from the darkness of dread oppression.
— from Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air by Henry Bordeaux