When news of this was brought to Rome, Marcus Geganius, the consul, having set out immediately at the head of an army, selected a place for his camp about three miles from the enemy; and the day being now fast declining, he orders his soldiers to refresh themselves; then at the fourth watch he puts his troops in motion; and the work, once commenced, was expedited in such a manner, that at sun-rise the Volscians found themselves enclosed by the Romans with stronger works than the city was by themselves.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

All the rest was of a piece; dry salad, putrid meat, and bread harder than English biscuit.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The exiled bishop enjoyed the conveniences of life and the consciousness of virtue.
— 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

They had sought to be free in order to make themselves equal; but in proportion as equality was more established by the aid of freedom, freedom itself was thereby rendered of more difficult attainment.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He showed me how the very Assessments between 1643 and 1659, which were taxes (besides Excise, Customes, Sequestrations, Decimations, King and Queene’s and Church Lands, or any thing else but just the Assessments), come to above fifteen millions.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You may, if you will, have your initials stamped at the top of the sheet, and on the seal of the envelope, but do not have any fancy ornaments in the corners, or on the back of the envelope.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

The hymns of the eighth book in general show a mutual affinity hardly less pronounced than that to be found in the family books.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"All right, then," exclaimed Billie.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes by Frank Fowler

Its effect may be very charming and restful: no colour standing out as in a positive colour scheme, no individual form catching the eye; but the whole having a richness of simple detail and smooth colouring more or less intricate and agreeably bewildering .
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

the Exilarch banished to, 3 , 196 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

Passing beautiful Rock River, we reach Hanna, on the eastern border of the great coal measure of Wyoming.
— from The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department

But in the evening Bouverie called his former pupil to his side in his half of the little hut and begged him to witness his will.
— from The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

That the hoar frost sometimes takes strange freaks is shown in the exquisitely beautiful deposits occasionally found upon the edges of a piece of broken ice.
— from Water Wonders Every Child Should Know Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice, and Rain by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

So great was its fame that it travelled beyond the Egyptian borders to other lands.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

"The Ellen B. gets under way inside of a half hour," said he.
— from Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle by Sewell Ford

There were grown people within the enclosure by special invitation.
— from A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas

They hunted through the corn from end to end, but found no trace of him.
— from On Our Selection by Steele Rudd