* Note: The Millenium is described in what once stood as the XLIst Article of the English Church (see Collier, Eccles.
— 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

It is not impossible that “Tsalal,” the appellation of the island of the chasms, may be found, upon minute philological scrutiny, to betray either some alliance with the chasms themselves, or some reference to the Ethiopian characters so mysteriously written in their windings.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

O what a mansion have those vices got, Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty’s veil doth cover every blot, And all things turns to fair, that eyes can see!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He had married again at Nion, and though his second wife was too old to expect children, she had relations; my father was united to another family, surrounded by other objects, and a variety of cares prevented my returning to his remembrance.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The evening come, she put on her bonnet and shawl, and went quietly out: having her reasons for hovering in a furtive way about the station by which a passenger would arrive from Yorkshire, and for preferring to peep into it round pillars and corners, and out of ladies’ waiting-room windows, to appearing in its precincts openly.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

I watched the “concentrators” at work big tanks containing mud and water and invisible diamonds—and was told that each could stir and churn and properly treat 300 car-loads of mud per day 1,600 pounds to the car-load—and reduce it to 3 car-loads of slush.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

"That must be the Emerald City," said Dorothy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The existing collar served for all Knights Grand Cross, but the old badge and star were assigned for the civil division of the order, a new pattern being designed for the military division.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The eternal cigarette smouldered in his mouth.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

—There is no style of comb so difficult to breed to perfection as the rose comb, and the excellent combs shown on Black and Spangled Hamburgs at our 21 recent shows prove how much can be accomplished by judicious breeding.
— from The Book of the Hamburgs A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But think of it, as I sat in the saddle at the outside of the crowd (looking, the English consul said, as if I were commanding the manœuvres), I was nearly knocked down by a stampede of the three consuls; they had been waiting their guest at the Matafele end, and some wretched intrigue among the whites had brought him to Apia, and the consuls had to run all the length of the town and come too late.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the end Charles sold his share of run and stock, and commenced a business in Melbourne.
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

Her eyes flew up to his at this extraordinary course, so injurious to his own interests.
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into which the word abbey has passed in this country.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various

It is, perhaps, more probable that he was greatly influenced by the Utopian sentimentalism which so powerfully influenced his later career, and led him to the extreme courses so bitterly condemned by many of his old colleagues and adherents.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve

Early in the eighteenth century sliding-sash windows were introduced, probably about 1710, but it was a long time before existing casements were entirely given up.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

What events had been enacted in that earthen camp since it was first thrown up, nobody could say; but the primitive simplicity of the young man’s preparations accorded well with the prehistoric spot on which they were made.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy