Yet pomp is well exchange for convenience; and a plain modern coach, that is hung upon springs, is much preferable to the silver or gold carts of antiquity, which rolled on the axle-tree, and were exposed, for the most part, to the inclemency of the weather.
— 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

The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold:— Say, is my kingdom lost?”—Shakespeare It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I confess I am utterly stultified in my estimate of you."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Caepit inde desipere cum dispendio sanitatis, inde adeo dementans, ut sibi ipsi mortem inferret.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Conseil, more cautious or more stable, barely faltered and would help me up, saying: "If Master's legs would kindly adopt a wider stance, Master will keep his balance."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

"The object of this list is, that through the medium of some civilized person who may see the same, it may be made known to the informed world, that the party consisting of the persons whose names are hereunto annexed, and who were sent out by the government of the U States in May 1804 to explore the interior of the Continent of North America, did penetrate the same by way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the discharge of the latter into the Pacific Ocean, where they arrived on the 14th November 1805, and from whence they departed the ____ day of March 1806 on their return to the United States by the same rout they had come out.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nevertheless he sat still a moment, straining his eyes down the long hill, for it was the most confusing hour of the evening, the hour when the last clearness from the upper sky is merged with the rising night in a blur that disguises landmarks and falsifies distances.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Créer un site internet me permet d'élargir le cercle de mes lecteurs en incitant les internautes à découvrir mes écrits.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And I looked upon the great balances wherein we are held, and millions of souls, uncounted souls, in myriads, like little points of light, fleeing home to God.
— from The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown

The thermometer in use in the United States is marked in this way and is called the Fahrenheit thermometer after its designer.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

The right to fair wages is one thing; the State could not realize it, but it at least represents no unjust aspiration; but the right to an equal dividend of the national income, claimed by utopian socialists, including Mr. Bellamy at the present day, and the right to the full produce of labour claimed by the revolutionary socialists, and meaning, as explained by them, the right to the entire product of labour and capital together, are really rights to [Pg 421] unfair wages, and the whole objection to them is that they are at variance with social justice.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

“The trouble is,” said Petrelli, “that we have an unidentifiable disease caused by an unidentifiable agent which is checked by an unidentifiable something in MacNeil.
— from Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett

I believe as surely as we are a people, so surely, if we are guided by wisdom, we will by the beginning of the next Presidential election, which is all that is known of the Constitution, (for, when you talk of the Constitution of the United States, it means the Presidential election, and the share of the spoils,)
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

On his return to France he came under the notice of Napoleon, who made him a Count of the Empire and sent him upon several important missions.
— from Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

It presents its colossal grotesques—its gargantuan Uncle Sam, its monstrous elephants—rather with an air of acknowledging that it cannot compete with the beauty one leaves behind when one turns in under its gay flags ad lanterns.
— from The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt

Even this I must bear, and even from this unworthy suspicion I must descend to vindicate myself.
— from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott