He confiscated the estates of all freedmen who presumed to take upon themselves the equestrian rank.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Legend, in no country more luxurious than in Japan, tells us that the exotic religion made no progress until Amida, the boundlessly Merciful One, assuming the shape of a concubine of the imperial prince who afterward became the Mikado Yomé, gave birth to Sh[=o]toku, who was himself Kwannon or the goddess of mercy in human form; and that when he grew up, he took to wife an incarnation of the Buddha elect, Mahastana-prapta, or in Japanese Dai-séi-shi, whose idol is honored at Zenk[=o]ji.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Dantès, you must tell my uncle that the emperor remembered him, and you will see it will bring tears into the old soldier’s eyes.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

V. join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together[Fr], tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody[obs3]; roll into one. attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast &c. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter &c. (restrain) 751; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple[obs3], link, yoke, bracket; marry &c. (wed) 903; bridge over, span.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As the key is pushed in, the notches in its upper edge raise up the pins A 1 , B 1 , C 1 , D 1 , E 1 , until their tops exactly reach the surface of G , which can now be revolved by the key in Fig.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Hence, in a conception of the pure understanding, the matter precedes the form, and for this reason Leibnitz first assumed the existence of things (monads) and of an internal power of representation in them, in order to found upon this their external relation and the community their state (that is, of their representations).
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The well-known zeal for knowledge, displayed in all the writings of that distinguished historian, has led to the natural inference, that he would not be displeased at the attempt to make them of use to the English readers of Gibbon.
— 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

lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Five of the houses are endowed, and the pensioners pass on in rotation from the unendowed to the endowed rooms.
— from Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney by John Cunningham Geikie

And as Noda led the way up toward the exhibition rooms, she trailed behind like a dutiful Japanese woman—while we, naturally, continued to talk of everything except, God forbid, why we were there.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

I understand that the European regiments have also been applied to for volunteers among the noncommissioned officers and men, to act as inspectors in the train.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He turned back and went upstairs to the exhibition rooms.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Time and the elements have softened, subdued and beautified the exterior; but the tone of the interior, unexposed to the elements, remains what it originally was: wanting in refinement and romance; it is the beauty of elaborate execution that imposes upon one.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various

For, in truth, that quiet method of evolution, which she pursues undismayed to the end, requires a certain lengthiness; and the reader's reward will be in a secure sense that he has been in intercourse with no mere flighty remnants, but with typical forms, of character, firmly and fully conceived.
— from Essays from 'The Guardian' by Walter Pater

The edges join together in the middle part of each fold, and separate from the utricle, the two ends remaining in open connection with its cavity.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

It was just a sprig of holly, with scarlet berries showing against the green, stuck in, by one of the office boys probably, behind the sign that pointed the way up to the editorial rooms.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the centre of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same centre as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a ratio to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface.”
— from Archimedes by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir