Chief Lloyd Welch, of the eastern band, was known in the tribe as Da′siʻgiya′gĭ and the same name is now used by the East Cherokee as the equivalent of the name Lloyd.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

You may indicate to each couple, as they enter the dining-room, the seats they are to occupy, standing until all are seated, or you may allow them to choose their own places.
— 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

A question concerning the Azyms was fiercely debated in the eleventh century, and the essence of the Eucharist was supposed in the East and West to depend on the use of leavened or unleavened bread.
— 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

Not long after his departure Diomedon arrived with ten Athenian ships, and, having made a convention by which the Teians admitted him as they had the enemy, coasted along to Erae, and, failing in an attempt upon the town, sailed back again.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Once you have the equipment, can afford the electricity to power it up, and the time it takes to get a radio amateur license, communication itself is free.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

He belonged to the eighteenth century, and the eighteenth century upset all his plans.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The author of Toni Brown was strongly of the English Church and the English State, but of the broad church and of the broad state.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

In the judgment of those ancient improvers, the produce of a kitchen garden had, it seems, been little more than sufficient to pay the extraordinary culture and the expense of watering; for in countries so near the sun, it was thought proper, in those times as in the present, to have the command of a stream of water, which could be conducted to every bed in the garden.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But now, as he walked up and down the balcony, plunged in meditation, he began to think with a new tolerance of the English cadre and the English life.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

823, 824] elections of a mayor, or member for Garrat ; and the subject serving to illustrate the manners of the times, and abounding in original features of character, I collected among some of its elder inhabitants a variety of amusing facts and documents, relative to the eccentric candidates and their elections.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

When we come to the reptile, however, we find an egg which is protected from evaporation by a tough egg case, and this egg produces young which breathe by lungs from the very moment of hatching.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

These enormous creatures are the elephants of the Arctic Ocean.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Make it big enough for the entire crew and the equipment."
— from Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

What is our earth itself but, on a vaster scale, a Casale Rotondo —a garden in a sepulchre—where the dust we tread on was once alive; and we reap our daily bread from human mould— "Earth builds on the earth castles and towers, Earth says to the earth—All shall be ours."
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

The young man, by his talents and virtue, gained the esteem of all, and was raised to the greatest honors of the empire, being made consul, and afterwards first secretary of state to the emperor Constantine and the empress Irene, his mother.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

Fortunately the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth had produced chemists whose investigations and discoveries paved the way for success in this revolution in the world of light.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

But this is not because the law is superior to the class or to the empirical concept, but because the two things are identical: the law is the empirical concept and the empirical concept is the law.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce