That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

55, 56) puts forward the suggestion that a general peace might be obtained in the Christian world, if the Emperor would remit something of his right and the Pope some part of his.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Such were the scenes of Barbaric rage, which disgraced the palace and table of the Roman emperor; and, as the impatient Goths could only be restrained by the firm and temperate character of Theodosius, the public safety seemed to depend on the life and abilities of a single man.
— 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

] Note 27 ( return ) [ Herodotus, as here quoted by Josephus, and as this passage still stands in his present copies, B. II.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

” “ Concedo antecedentum ,” echoed the professor, smiling maliciously.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The priest stopped once again, his soul filled with a growing and irresistible tenderness.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The parrot sat, preening her plumage, on Long John's shoulder.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

His inside was still at war with the fish, his left leg was numb; he had forgotten his goloshes either in the court or in the police station, and his feet felt frozen.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Which respective Demands are as follows:— Elizabeth How, Twelve Pounds; George Jacob, Seventy nine Pounds; Mary Easty, Twenty Pounds; Mary Parker, Eight Pounds; Mr. George Burroughs, Fifty Pounds; Gyles Core & Martha Core his Wife, Twenty one Pounds; Rebecca Nurse, Twenty five Pounds; John Willard, Twenty Pounds; Sarah Good, Thirty Pounds; Martha Carrier, Seven Pounds six shillings; Samuel Wardell & Sarah his Wife, Thirty six Pounds fifteen shillings; John Proctor & —— Proctor his Wife, One Hundred and fifty Pounds; Sarah Wilde, Fourteen Pounds; Mrs. Mary Bradbury, Twenty Pounds; Abigail Faulkner, Twenty Pounds; Abigail Hobbs, Ten Pounds; Ann Foster, Six Pounds ten shillings; Rebecca Eams, Ten Pounds; Dorcas Hoar, Twenty one Pounds seventeen shillings; Mary Post Eight Pounds fourteen shillings; Mary Lacey Eight Pounds ten shillings.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

The tonnage by this newer route has increased enormously, and its competition has affected commerce by reducing all rates from the Mississippi Valley and the West and the Pacific slope to the Atlantic seaboard and to Europe.
— from James B. Eads by Louis How

He was as handsome a young soldier as one could wish to see, and his likeness to Peggy seemed only to make him more attractive in the eyes of the beholders.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 995, January 21, 1899 by Various

The scene of this story is laid in the Puritan settlement at Charlestown.
— from Our Little German Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

On the other hand the conception of fire as an emanation of the sun, or at all events as linked to it by a bond of physical sympathy, is far less simple and obvious; and though the use of fire as a charm to produce sunshine appears to be undeniable, nevertheless in attempting to explain popular customs we should never have recourse to a more recondite idea when a simpler one lies to hand and is supported by the explicit testimony of the people themselves.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I scarcely think, however, that, like the travelling photographer, she dreamed of including her fellow-tourists in her sketch-book of reminiscences, any more than I then anticipated the day when I should be tempted to illustrate mine by her own and her sister's portraits.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

To prevent such burning, the main reliance is to be placed in the surface resistance of the insulators rather than that of pins and cross-arms.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

52 Near Moscow, Prince Troubetzkoy planted for experiment in the open ground several varieties of the pear, but one alone, the Poire sans Pepins, withstood the cold of winter.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin