Nor does what they utter, so much seem to be singing as the voice and exertion of valour.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

[ Principatum Divi Nervae, et imperium Trajani, uberiorem, securioremque materiam senectuti seposui.
— 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 heathens do not have so many women; nor do they live under so many superstitions, but adore for all that day the first thing that they see in the morning when they go out of their houses.
— 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

You look pale and gaze, And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder, To see the strange impatience of the Heavens: But if you would consider the true cause Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, Why birds and beasts, from quality and kind; Why old men, fools, and children calculate, Why all these things change from their ordinance, Their natures, and pre-formed faculties, To monstrous quality; why, you shall find That Heaven hath infus’d them with these spirits, To make them instruments of fear and warning Unto some monstrous state.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

You play us something, Miss Swartz, do.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then Ulysses said: "Maids, servants of Ulysses who has so long been absent, go to the queen inside the house; sit with her and amuse her, or spin, and pick wool.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Apiciana FUNGUS, mushroom; —ULUS, small m.; see BOLETUS —— FARNEI, ℞ 309 , seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Suddenly it flashed up still more suddenly and there came a sharp report.
— from The Boy Allies in the Baltic; Or, Through Fields of Ice to Aid the Czar by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

The man from Dalbakken brought us some milk, so we indulged in coffee.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

Ravens Reception, Kamchatkan Reindeer catching; driving; food; guarding; habits; of Koraks; of Tunguses; stampede; superstition about sale of; uses Reindeer Koraks, see "Koraks, Wandering" Reindeer-sledge travel Religion, of Kamchadals; of Wandering Koraks Reveries, seasick River of the Lost Roads Robinson, member of Anadyr River party Roses, wild Route of line Routes from Kluchei Russell and Co. Russian-American Telegraph Co. organisation of failure of Russian Government Russian language S Sables, trapping; trade in skins Saghalin , Russian supply steamer St. Petersburg Sale, a bargain Salmon, catching and curing; failure of; frozen; dependence of Siberians upon Samanka Mountains Samanka River Sandford, Lieut., foreman of pole-cutting party "Sastrugi," permanent drifts of snow Scammon, Captain, commander of Company's fleet Scenery of Kamchatka Scenery, Siberian, in winter Schwartz Sea Breeze , whaling bark Sea life "Selánka," Kamchatkan soup Send-off, a Siberian Shamanism "Shchi," cabbage soup Sheláshnikoff, Governor-General Sherom, village Shestakóva, village Sidanka, village Smith, member of Anadyr River party Sparrow song Spring, in Gizhiga Squirrel skins Stanavoi Mountains Star-flower "Starosta," head man of village Steeplechase, to Sidanka Stock, of Western Union Extension Co. Storm in Northern Pacific; on the Viliga River; on the Málkachán steppe; in Gizhiginsk Gulf Stovepipe, search for; finding of "Struganini," frozen fish Sugar, used instead of money Sulkavoi, captain of port of Petropavlovsk Sutton, captain of bark Clara Bell Suveilich, volcano Swallows Swans Sword-bearer T "Taiyon," Korak chief "Tarantas," Siberian travelling carriage Tea, used instead of money
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

It is a place of great antiquity, having originated in a castle, once of great strength and importance, which underwent several memorable sieges, on one occasion being successfully defended (in 1338) against the English for nineteen weeks by Black Agnes of Dunbar, Countess of March.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

Well, if it is not catching, it comes so near to being so, that most persons accept it as a fact; and laugh as we may, daily experience goes to confirm it as such, and must continue to do so until some more satisfactory explanation is found than we yet know of.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake

The keen-eyed servant, Giacomo, himself an humble member of the order, quickly detected that he was suffering under some mental shock, and that the case was one where the mere physician could afford but little benefit.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever