In the extreme corner of this area, which was dignified by the name of Smith’s Square, instead of taking a more appropriate title from the church of St John which it encircled, was a large old house, that had been masked at the beginning of the century with a modern front of pale-coloured bricks, but which still stood in its courtyard surrounded by its iron railings, withdrawn as it were from the vulgar gaze like an individual who had known higher fortunes, and blending with his humility something of the reserve which is prompted by the memory of vanished greatness.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The spontaneous offering was at length exacted as the debt of duty; and instead of being confined to the occasion of a triumph, it was supposed to be granted by the several cities and provinces of the monarchy, as often as the emperor condescended to announce his accession, his consulship, the birth of a son, the creation of a Cæsar, a victory over the Barbarians, or any other real or imaginary event which graced the annals of his reign.
— 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

Just as invisible images of persons on the earth can be dug out of the ether and made visible by a television apparatus, later being dismissed again into space, so the God-created, unseen astral blueprints of vegetables and plants floating in the ether are precipitated on an astral planet by the will of its inhabitants.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The English ambassador having given me a letter for the English consul, I left Turin with very little money in my purse and no letter of credit on any banker.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[A] In making the little stars that connect the different squares, the mode we recommended for working stroke stitch should be adopted, that is, beginning, by bringing the needle out in the middle, making 7 stitches, and at the eighth, carrying the needle back under the first, to the spot whence you started.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It is impossible to escape from this eternal circle.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

All had green waists, representing the Emerald City they intended to conquer, and the top button on each waist indicated by its color which country the wearer came from.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

[ This circumnavigation was in a contrary direction to that of the Usipian deserters, the fleet setting out from the Firth of Tay on the eastern coast, and sailing round the northern, western, and southern coasts, till it arrived at the port of Sandwich in Kent.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

83 C H A P. XVIII T HE draw-bridge being held irreparable, Trim was ordered directly to set about another——but not upon the same model: for cardinal Alberoni ’s intrigues at that time being discovered, and my uncle Toby rightly foreseeing that a flame would inevitably break out betwixt Spain and the Empire, and that the operations of the ensuing campaign must in all likelihood be either in Naples or Sicily ——he determined upon an Italian bridge—(my uncle Toby, by-the-bye, was not far out of his conjectures)——but my father, who was infinitely the better politician, and took the lead as far of my uncle Toby in the cabinet, as my uncle Toby took it of him in the field——convinced him, that if the king of Spain and the Emperor went together by the ears, England and France and Holland must, by force of their pre-engagements, all enter the lists too;——and
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The position of the English clergy was an especially difficult one.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Her voyage will be found in the sequel of this section, with, several other articles connected with it, which have not been noticed in Astley's Collection, and which appeared necessary to elucidate the early commercial connections of England with India, and the manners and customs of the eastern nations.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

At last the long dreary drive was over—a drive, Audouin thought to himself with a sigh, which couldn't be equalled anywhere in the world for naked ugliness, outside this great, free, enlightened, and absolutely materialised republic—and the buggy drew up at the gate of Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop's homestead, in the exact central spot of that wide and barren desert of utter fruitfulness.
— from Babylon, Volume 2 by Grant Allen

We must give them full protection in their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; we must give them even handed justice in law and in politics; we must give them equality of opportunity Page 25 [Pg 25] in earning their bread, in making their homes, in educating their children; we must give them every chance and all cheer and sympathy in seeking the fulfillment of the aspirations of the human heart among their own people.
— from Church work among the Negroes in the South The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2 by Robert Strange

He presented the wonderful refractor of light to the Empress Catherine who complimented Orloff by naming it after him.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed

When King Alfonso, after an interval of more than three hundred years, regained possession of the ancient capital of the Goths, the city from which the luckless Rodrigo, the last of the Goths, was driven, Toledo was surrendered on the express condition that the Moors should not be disturbed in their religious beliefs and that they were to retain the use of their mosques.
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

The celebrated cobalt-mine, situated in the valley of Gistan, in Aragon, was entirely in the hands of the Germans, who, during the first half of the eighteenth century, derived immense profit from it.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

Then, when the propitious hour arrives, and after the love-play, the growing passion expands, until the transports of feeling find their ending in the explosive completion of the act, at once the tension of his whole system relaxes, and his muscles fall into gentle, easy attitudes of languorous content, and in a few moments the man is sleeping like a child.
— from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Marie Carmichael Stopes

We only feel inclined to walk round the English coast until we find that particular garden and that particular aunt.
— from The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton