It is to this last branch of the subject that I have had a single eye, and have devoted my whole work; and accordingly have, as I said before, accommodated all my plans to one particular class of narrative.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Elsewhere there exist traces of a subsidence, and the old Phœnician cities of Nora, to the south-west of Cagliari, and Tharros, on the northern peninsula of the Gulf of Oristano, have become partly submerged.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

The throng of people consisted of night lodgers, who were waiting to be let in.
— from What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This leaves the fresh drafts and the men returning from leave as almost the only possible carriers of new infection.
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

he observed with his chilly smile—and I really did not know whether his remark involved a reference to our previous conversation or not. "
— from The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

We have sworn with our own hand that we will aid count Theobald against every creature, living or dead; at our command the following men have sworn that they approve of this and will support and aid us in keeping this oath: Pierre, count of Nevers, Drogo of Mello, William of Galande, etc.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

At the close of the [Pg 281] sixteenth century, in more or less friendly intercourse with the other Protestant countries of north Europe, Denmark began effectively to develop a literature such as theirs, imaginative and scientific, in the vernacular as well as in Latin; and so the development went on while Sweden was gaining military glory with little enlightenment.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The prescribed exemption from obligatory prayer, originally related to the Obligatory Prayer consisting of nine rak’áhs, is now applicable to the three Obligatory Prayers which superseded it.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

The most beautiful of the blackcap's notes, which come nearest to the blackbird, have this human sound; and certainly the most beautiful part of the linnet's song is the opening phrase, composed of notes that are both swallow-like and human-like.
— from Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

| With staring eyes and arms extended, neither looking at nor comprehending each other, they both talked at once, as if on a rostrum, in the doctoral, despotic tones of professors certain of never being refuted; until, getting angry, they only shouted names: “Justinger of Berne!..
— from Tartarin On The Alps by Alphonse Daudet

Every threatening of political change or national disaster may herald the coming of that day; it is always at hand; to their vision, they are living near the finality of things.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard