] Under the reign of Adrian, when the empire extended from the Euphrates to the ocean, from Mount Atlas to the Grampian hills, a fanciful historian 62 amused the Romans with the picture of their ancient wars.
— 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

[227] Facts gathered from Normandsforbundet II, where Rev. O. Olofson of Ullensvang, Hardanger, discusses most interestingly the early emigration from Hardanger to America (pp. 169–180).
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Frey closed with Surtr, Heimdall with Loki, whom he had defeated once before, and the remainder of the gods and all the Einheriar engaged foes equally worthy of their courage.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

WHEN THE THIRD YEAR CLOSED The third year of the world war closed in July, 1917, with the fortunes of conflict favoring the Entente, except for uncertainty as to the outcome of the Russian situation.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

The emerald eyes flashed up at him.
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

The process of philosophy may be differently performed by two enquirers equally free and sincere, even of the same age and country: and it is sure to be differently performed, if they belong to ages and countries widely apart.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

“Houillos, a farrier, at Plenevaux, was so poor as not to be able to earn enough for his wants, not having sometimes bread enough to give to his wife and children.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

When the older -en and -ster went out of use as the distinctive mark of the feminine, the ending -ess , from the French -esse , sprang into a popularity much greater than at present.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

That resolution once taken, two children might as well have tried to extract evidence from her as two justices of the peace.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

"I particularly liked to chat with those who were engaged at night,—poor peasants from the surrounding country, who came to town with their old-fashioned rattling vehicles, besmeared with yellow mud and drawn by one poor horse, to earn enough for bread and taxes.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

Our space is so vast that we shall never come to know and love it, inch by inch, as the English antiquarians do the tracts of country with which they deal; and besides, our land is always likely to lack the interest that belongs to English estates; for where land changes its ownership every few years, it does not become imbued with the personalities of the people who live on it.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And while the two old men followed, chatting, behind, the three young girls wandered with light step in advance hither and thither, trying on this necklace, toying with these rings, admiring that reliquaire, tearing their entranced eyes from those wildernesses of beautiful forms, of rays and colors.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The use of the epithet “empfindsam” for “sentimental” is then the occasion for some discussion, and its source is one of the facts involved in Sterne’s German vogue which seem to have fastened themselves on the memory of literature.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer