But this dependent tenure was gradually abolished by the independent and rapacious nobles of France, who established the perpetual property, and hereditary succession, of their benefices; a revolution salutary to the earth, which had been injured, or neglected, by its precarious masters.
— 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

A government may be changed either into an oligarchy, democracy, or a free state; when the magistrates, or any part of the city acquire great credit, or are increased in power, as the court of Areopagus at Athens, having procured great credit during the Median war, added firmness to their administration; and, on the other hand, the maritime force, composed of the commonalty, having gained the victory at Salamis, by their power at sea, got the lead in the state, and strengthened the popular party: and at Argos, the nobles, having gained great credit by the battle of Mantinea against the Lacedaemonians, endeavoured to dissolve the democracy.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

ne la maior de queſte ſe troua pietre precioſe Qui se chiama capo de s ta maria gia ſe penſaua q̃ de qui ſe paſaſſe aL mare de Sur cioe mezo di ne may piu altra fu diſcouerto adeſſo nõ he capo ſinon fiume et a larga La boca 17 legue.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

“Then let us come at once,” I cried, “we are wasting the precious, precious time!”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

If that be so, why do not the Jews who represent Jewry in London, in New York, and at the Paris Peace Conference disown and brand their tyrant co-religionists in Hungary?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

So the Philippine peoples have remained faithful during three centuries, giving up their liberty and their independence, sometimes dazzled by [ 47 ] the hope of the Paradise promised, sometimes cajoled by the friendship offered them by a noble and generous people like the Spanish, sometimes also compelled by superiority of arms of which they were ignorant and which timid spirits invested with a mysterious character, or sometimes because the invading foreigner took advantage of intestine feuds to step in as the peacemaker in discord and thus later to dominate both parties and subject them to his authority.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Trymlyt , pt. pl. trembled, S3; see Tremlen .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It is interesting to see that the electronic book mimics the traditional book as much as possible except that the paper page is replaced by a screen.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Sancho was surprised to hear himself called by his name and find himself embraced by a foreign pilgrim, and after regarding him steadily without speaking he was still unable to recognise him; but the pilgrim perceiving his perplexity cried, "What!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Lighter tints of the plumage prevailing; face dirty or fulvous white.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The luxury of carving-knives was, even in the closing years of the fifteenth century, reserved for royalty and nobility; for in the "Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII.," under 1497, a pair is said to have cost £1 6 s. 8 d. of money of that day.
— from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt

This representation of the union of the sexes, typifies the divine sacti, or active energy in union, the procreative generative power seen throughout nature; the earth being the primitive pudendum or yoni, which is fecundated by the solar heat, the sun—the primeval Lingam, to whose vivifying rays, men and animals, plants and the fruits of the earth owe their being and continued existence.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

But is it then so certain that the poet possesses no individuality because he has more than one?
— from The Growth of a Soul by August Strindberg

3 It is quite marvellous that, amid all the novelties of instrumentation (if I may coin a word) which are thrust upon the patient public, season after season--including the Jews'-harping of Eulenstein, the chin-chopping of Michael Boiai, and the rock-harmonicon of the Derbyshire mechanics--no one has thought of exhibiting the melodious performance of an Irish really were a first-rate performer, he could not fail to please, to delight, to astonish.
— from Bits of Blarney by R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie

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— from President Heber C. Kimball's Journal Seventh Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Heber C. (Heber Chase) Kimball

The Governor-General, had, in truth, not inspired the popular party or its leader with confidence, nor did he place the least reliance upon them.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

See Pugin's Letter on the proposed Protestant Memorial.
— from The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs

As the chapel of the Palatine Palace, where the Emperor had resolved to hear the Confession, could contain only about two hundred persons, [554] before three o'clock a great crowd was [185] to be seen surrounding the building and thronging the court, hoping by this means to catch a few words; and many having gained entrance to the chapel, all were turned out except those who were not, at the least, councillors to the princes.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

This I candidly laid before the trustees of the property, and at once proposed to forego any advantage that I might have derived, and to suffer the woods to remain, with the timber growing thereon, for the benefit of the proprietor, provided the parties would make me a corresponding deduction in the rent.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt