Intelligence of Galba’s death arriving soon after, when he had settled his affairs in Germany he divided his troops into two bodies, intending to send one of them before him against Otho, and to follow with the other himself.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Perhaps it will interest you to hear how the idea that birth is the source and prototype of the emotion of fear, happened to occur to me.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He was dismissed with a fresh horse; the insult was concealed from the Imperial troops; but in two successive battles they were more fatally instructed of the prowess of their adversaries.
— 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 breadths of the Fringes seem'd to be in the progression of the Numbers 1, √(1/3), √(1/5), and their Intervals to be in the same progression with them; that is, the Fringes and their Intervals together to be in the continual progression of the Numbers 1, √(1/2), √(1/3), √(1/4), √(1/5), or thereabouts.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

It will be observed that in presenting it in this way we to some extent idealize the Christian conception; and this is true, but in the same way and in the same measure as we have idealized ancient humanism, which was not only humanism, but also transcendency and mystery.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

Rarely had a more complete triumph been achieved on the water than in this battle in the straits of Malacca.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

There is one very interesting fact that is not generally known, and I certainly was unaware of it before I started, in connection with this particular route across the Atlantic, and that is, that by it the ship passes within only 200 miles of Greenland.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

Jon stuffed the ID tag back into the slot and read over the message on the card as he walked down the stairs to the street.
— from The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison

The only differences that exist and that keep them apart are these: there are the children who need guidance, the ignorant to be instructed, the sick to be tended and healed; thus, I say that the whole of humanity is enveloped by the Mercy and Grace of God.
— from Paris Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá

At length it attained a great size, and began to inspire terror by its tremendous strength and power, notwithstanding its gentleness.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

If it is the experience and the actual taste of it that is to be imparted, the story must be viewed as the poor creature saw it; and yet the poor creature cannot tell the story in full.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock