To these he refers explicitly or tacitly in his notices of the Irongate and of Gog and Magog, in his allusions to the marriage of Alexander with Darius's daughter, and to the battle between those two heroes, and in his repeated mention of the Arbre Sol or Arbre Sec on the Khorasan frontier.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act i, Scene 2. CONTENTS T HE R EPAIRER OF R EPUTATIONS T HE M ASK
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The philosopher himself deserved some share of the reproach, if it be true that his rigorous exaction of Quadringenties, above three hundred thousand pounds which he had lent at high interest, provoked a rebellion in Britain, (Dion Cassius, l. lxii.
— 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

Both liked to recall how they had regarded each other when as yet they were nothing to one another; they felt themselves now quite different beings: then they were artificial, now natural and sincere.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

During this interval, in which my soul was wound up to the last stretch of rapturous expectation, Narcissa endeavoured to reconcile some of her relations in town to her marriage with me; but, finding them all deaf to her remonstrances, either out of envy or prejudice, she told me with the most enchanting sweetness, while the tears bedewed her lovely cheeks, “Sure the world will no longer question your generosity when you take a poor forlorn beggar to your arms?”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There was nothing to conceal between them; they knew, they had confessed their love, and they had renounced each other; they were going to part.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

the Wolf growled, to himself reflecting: "Each one should stick to his own trade.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Now canst thou, Son, behold the transient farce Of goods that are committed unto Fortune, For which the human race each other buffet; For all the gold that is beneath the moon, Or ever has been, of these weary souls Could never make a single one repose.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

Even when he who aspires to distinction makes or wishes to make a joyful, elevating, or cheerful impression, he does not enjoy this success in that he rejoices, exalts, or cheers his neighbour, but in that he leaves his impress on the latter's soul, changing its form and dominating it according to his will.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For the rights of nature reconcile us, though we are parted by differences of purpose; they link us together, howsoever rancour estrange our spirit.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

In spite of the cold, the sun lent its aid, baring the divides and wind-swept places of snow; and before noon, the cattle fell to feeding so ravenously that the herdsmen relayed each other, and a dinner for boy and horse was enjoyed at headquarters.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Published by the most gracious, kind, and benevolent command, order, and assent of the subscribed Christian Electors, princes, and estates of the Holy Roman Empire, of the German nation, of the Augsburg Confession, for the comfort and benefit of said lands churches, schools, and posterity. 1579.")
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

We had a long conversation, in which she explained the object of their society, lately founded—to communicate a Christian education to the children of the higher ranks, especially of the aristocratie de l'argent, who of all ranks in France are most alienated from religion.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

We have then here record evidence of the true personnel at the time of the central judicial body, together with the fact of its presence with the king, the fact which had not till now been proved, on his progress through the land.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

In return for his services, the Pope, Leo VIII , made Otto “Emperor,” and the eastern half of Charles’ old kingdom was henceforth known as the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.” THE MOUNTAIN-PASS [149] This strange political creation managed to live to the ripe old age of eight hundred and thirty-nine years.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

It feels itself free, and upward soars To the highest regions Elysian; O German Spirit, how proud is the flight Thou takest in nightly vision!
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

The Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality 147 54.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

He aspired to be more than Emperor of the French: he wished to make his Empire a cosmopolitan realm, whose confines might rival those of the Holy Roman Empire of one thousand years before, and embrace scores of peoples in a grand, well-ordered European polity.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose