p. 604-610,) who coolly observes, "un seul homme entraina dans l'enfer un nombre infini de Septentrionaux, &c." Salvian (de Gubern.
— 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

Jumps up so high every day that he can see over all the bothersome hills into the Promised Land of Plenty.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

The Rev. Williams and also Walter read to the sick woman every day, and by the end of the month Mrs. Williams began to stay up several hours each day.
— from The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter

Moreover, my uncle, should he ever discover this after-match of my oriental life, was certainly not the man to be seriously scandalised at it, directly he assured himself that "the respectabilities" had not been violated.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

Now, by the Federal Constitution, slaves are mentioned only three times, and then not as slaves, but as ' persons ,' and the Supreme Court of the United States have expressly decided that slaves, so far as regards the United States, are persons, and not property .
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Try us and you'll see—you will wonder how, without us, society has ever dragged itself even this distance—so wretchedly small compared with what it might have been—on its painful earthly pilgrimage.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

[ Jumping up suddenly, her eyes dilating, holding her glass high in the air.
— from The Benefit of the Doubt; a Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

I will come for it to-morrow night at this same place and hour," and off she went up the moonbeam, half skipping, half flying, while Jim stood stupidly staring until she had entirely disappeared.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Various

"I look up," says he, "every day from my shop, upon a man whom the idlers, who stand still to gaze upon my work, often celebrate as a wit and a philosopher.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson