Where are the following rivers: Pisuerga, Sakaria, Guadalete, Jalon, Mulde? All you know of the following: Machacha, Pilmo, Schebulos, Crivoscia, Basecs, Mancikert, Taxhem, Citeaux, Meloria, Zutphen.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

This was the signal for the recommencement of a war, in which the French regained possession of nearly the whole province.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

They were of the Finnish race; part of the nation, in the fifth century, moved westward, and reached the modern Bulgaria; part remained along the Volga, which is called Etel, Etil, or Athil, in all the Tartar languages, but from the Bulgarians, the Volga.
— 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

According to Michu, Girel, a Royalist like himself, during the first Revolution, played the Jacobin in the interest of his fortune.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The natives use an infusion of the filamentous, reticulate portion surrounding the seeds, in doses of 0.50–0.60 gm., according to P. Blanco.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

[pg 119] Thy free remonstrance proves thy worth and truth: Yet charge my absence less, O generous chief!
— from The Iliad by Homer

‘I should be the victim of their fury,’ replied Pott.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

330 The foregoing resolutions, presented by the committee appointed for the purpose, were unanimously passed by the John Bowie Strange Camp of Confederate Veterans at Charlottesville, Virginia.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

"In a village of Etruria," writes Ghiberti, the oldest historian of the Florentine Renaissance, "Painting took her rise."
— from Masters in Art, Part 32, v. 3, August, 1902: Giotto A Series of Illustrated Monographs by Anonymous

Critics of literary history have again [96] and again remarked upon it; it is a characteristic which reveals itself in many different forms, but is strongest and most sympathetic in what is strongest and most serious in modern literature; it is exemplified by writers as unlike Wordsworth as the French romanticist poets.
— from Essays from 'The Guardian' by Walter Pater

After the canopy the female relations proceeded in chairs, or more generally in the [484] little covered carts, wearing white frocks like the men, their hair dishevelled, and broad white fillets bound across their foreheads.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Having, however, the advantage of being cheap, and being probably durable, it would be well adapted for the common purposes of painting, in place of the fugitive rose pink.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

As she ran she sobbed to herself, at the thought of the forlorn little figure in its best hat and coat, setting out on a crusade to find “regular parents!”
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke

That direct opposition to the foreign rule prevailed in the Druidism of this period cannot at least be proved; but, even if this were not the case, it is easy to conceive that the Roman government, which elsewhere let alone all local peculiarities of worship with indifferent toleration, contemplated this Druidical system, not merely in its extravagances but as a whole, with apprehension.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

As the witnesses' door closed behind him, he found himself at one end of a long lane, that was hedged on both sides by faces not without a touch of ferocity about them, and with difficulty kept clear by the available force of the five Roxham policemen.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

" Matthioli, commenting on this passage from Dioscorides in 1565, makes the following remark (p. 1375): "The precipitate of the wine which settles in the casks of the winery forms stone-like crusts, and is called by the works-people by the name tartarum ."
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola