The rebel ranks were broken; when the mother and grandmother of the Syrian prince, who, according to their eastern custom, had attended the army, threw themselves from their covered chariots, and, by exciting the compassion of the soldiers, endeavored to animate their drooping courage.
— 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

For the same reason the attempt to prove a synthetical proposition by means of mere conceptions, for example: “Everything that exists contingently has a cause,” has never succeeded.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It shows clearly how the three circles may be drawn so that every cat has a separate enclosure, and cannot approach another cat without crossing a line.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Then it was first instituted that after the manner of the Eastern Churches, Hymns and Psalms should be sung, lest the people should wax faint through the tediousness of sorrow: and from that day to this the custom is retained, divers (yea, almost all) Thy congregations, throughout other parts of the world following herein.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They were favored by their mother above the two eldest children, Helene and Gustave, the only ones really belonging to the Marquis d'Aiglemont.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Du Pont made no reply, but supported Emily, while, with a steady, though eager, countenance, he awaited their appearance, and, in the next moment, Ludovico, alone, mounted the landing-place.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The enemy carrying his artillery and supply trains over them in his retreat, made them still worse for troops following.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As for Germany, the cause is her deep-seated conviction that every country has a moral right to the mouth of its greatest river; unable to compete with England, by roundabout sea routes and a Kiel Canal, she wants to use the route that nature digged for her through the mouth of the Rhine.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

According to the earliest conceptions, he appears as a grave and dignified man in the prime of life; his countenance is earnest, thoughtful, and benevolent; he wears a full beard, and is draped from head to foot in the garb of an Eastern monarch.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Now, the educated classes have all the wide field of ancient learning open to them—they can pasture where they will; and, the stream of present knowledge rushing by, they can drink as they list.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

[61] The Eastern Cordillera has a greater mean height, and it displays more volcanic activity.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

I shall not recapitulate Cook's voyages; the first fitted out by the British Government was made in 1768, but Cook did not touch upon Australia's coast until two years later, when, voyaging northwards along the eastern coast, he anchored at a spot he called Botany Bay, from the brightness and abundance of the beautiful wild flowers he found growing there.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

The 373 letters of the entire collection have among them many addressed to kings, popes, cardinals, bishops, conventual bodies, and political corporations, as well as a great number written to private individuals.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Forster by a tremendous effort controlled his agitation, and, ringing the bell, ordered the Frenchman to be shown in to him.
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.
— from International May Day and American Labor Day A Holiday Expressing Working Class Emancipation Versus a Holiday Exalting Labor's Chains by Boris Reinstein

For days the people continued in the church with the Bishop, and on this occasion, St. Augustine says, ‘It was first instituted that after the manner of the Eastern Churches, hymns and psalms should be sung, lest the people should faint through the weariness of sorrow’—a famous evidence of the fact that St. Ambrose was the first to introduce the use of music into the services of the Western Church.
— from The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes