It seems Havers didn't understand they were extra large, and it was only after his death they attracted attention.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[Pg 291] rage to aspire to the recovery of their hopes of a share in the consulship, but even in the electing of military tribunes, which elections lay open to both patricians and commons, they neither thought of themselves nor of their party.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But the people always expected his return, and thus they were easily led to accept Captain Cook as the restored god.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

A secret sympathy had frequently drawn me thither before I knew Charlotte; and we were delighted when, in our early acquaintance, we discovered that we each loved the same spot, which is indeed as romantic as any that ever captivated the fancy of an artist.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the Christian apostles, St. Peter or St. Paul, could return to the Vatican, they might possibly inquire the name of the Deity who is worshipped with such mysterious rites in that magnificent temple: at Oxford or Geneva, they would experience less surprise; but it might still be incumbent on them to peruse the catechism of the church, and to study the orthodox commentators on their own writings and the words of their Master.
— 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

"Every part of the world," exclaims Libanius, with devout transport, "displayed the triumph of religion; and the grateful prospect of flaming altars, bleeding victims, the smoke of incense, and a solemn train of priests and prophets, without fear and without danger.
— 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

And besides demolishing the temples they erected sepulchres 235 both on new sites and on the old sites of the temples, as though impelled by fate or by an unconscious presentiment that they would ere long need many such sepulchres, seeing that they so neglected the gods.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

In the evening seven hundred sat down to dinner, and there was every luxury that could be imagined.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

By those tresses unconfined, Woo'd by each Ægean wind; By those lids whose jetty fringe Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge; By those wild eyes like the roe, Zöe mou, sas agapo.
— from A Day with Lord Byron by May Clarissa Gillington Byron

Page 27 [pg 23] Yet an inexperienced, unguided curiosity would be capable of walking through a French street and through an English street, and noting chiefly that whereas English lamp-posts spring from the kerb, French lamp-posts cling to the side of the house!
— from The Author's Craft by Arnold Bennett

Books everywhere--under the window-seats, up the walls, even lining a deep alcove in the far corner.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Those who enjoy large opportunities of study, and especially those who have the responsibility not only of learning but of teaching, must beware of setting their own narrow limits to the domain of what is useful and true.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

They were eminently literary men.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

In her perfect understanding of the language set down for her, in the appropriateness of her gesticulation, attitudes, and articulation, while actually reading her own part, she evinced the possession of all the primary and fundamental materials of an actress of the first order; and she has only to work them judiciously, to convince the world, ere long, that ours has not been an erroneous estimate of her abilities.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

BUILDING SHIPS UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AT HOG ISLAND SHIPYARD In a certain plant it was determined that the workmen each lost an appreciable part of an hour per day because of inadequate lighting.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

Oh happiest they, whose early love unchanged, Hopes undissolved, and friendship unestranged, Tired of their wanderings, still can deign to see Love, hopes, and friendship, centring all in thee!
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes