The chief champion of Buddhism was the son of a Mikado, best known by his posthumous title, Sh[=o]toku, 33 who all his life was a vigorous defender and propagator of the new faith.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The next night there happened a similar accident with a similar result; and then the next—and then again the next; so that, in the end, the good monarch, having been unavoidably deprived of all opportunity to keep his vow during a period of no less than one thousand and one nights, either forgets it altogether by the expiration of this time, or gets himself absolved of it in the regular way, or (what is more probable) breaks it outright, as well as the head of his father confessor.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

ADVANCE OF VAN DORN AND PRICE—PRICE ENTERS IUKA—BATTLE OF IUKA.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I, the cheerful idiot that had been squandering money like water, and thought myself beyond the reach of misfortune, had not now as much as fifty dollars when I gathered together my various debts and paid them.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

En d'autres termes, l'oeuvre qui est vendue doit avoir plus de valeur que sa copie.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Iam pro imperio Valerius discedere a privato 5 lictores iubebat, cum fractis animis Appius vitae metuens in domum se propinquam foro insciis adversariis capite obvoluto recipit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Mr Venus dives, and produces another muffin, yet untoasted; taking the arrow out of the breast of Cock Robin, he proceeds to toast it on the end of that cruel instrument.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

They were charming, especially the oldest, a blonde of eighteen, fresh as a flower, and very dainty and pretty!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Villefort dictated a petition, in which, from an excellent intention, no doubt, Dantès’ patriotic services were exaggerated, and he was made out one of the most active agents of Napoleon’s return.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action, till they have passed the meridian of their years; as it was with Julius Caesar and Septimius Severus.
— from The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon

The flesh is very delicate, although perhaps inferior in flavour to that of the shrimp.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

This severe judgment dismayed all present; Miss Walder had [155] recourse to an evocation and discovered that it had been inflicted by Asmodeus, the protector of her rival, who furthermore would not scruple to visit with violent disaster any person who discovered an evil design against so elect a sister as Diana.
— from Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

40 Approving Mercy marks the vast design, And proudly cries— Howard , the task be thine!
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles

Some of the parson of Radwinter’s tithes were made up thus:—“to the parson of Radwynter forseid for the yerely tythes of the said maner [Bendish Hall, in the parish of Radwinter], one acre of whete in harvest p ri ce x s, one acre of otes p ri ce v s iiij d, a lambe p ri ce viij d, a pigg, p ri ce iiij d, and in money iij s iiij d.”— Valor Eccl. , Vol.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

He says, "By pronouncing in a very deliberate and perfectly natural manner, the letter y , (which is a diphthong ,) the unpractised student will perceive, that the sound produced, is compound; being formed, at its opening, of the obscure sound of oo as heard in oo -ze, which sound rapidly slides into that of i , and then advances to that of ee as heard in e -ve, and on which it gradually passes off into silence.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

By her side stood a venerable priest, holding a crucifix and the Lady Grace was repeating after him very devoutly a prayer for the dying; but when she saw Tristram, she forgot both priest and prayer.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood

The night was very dark; and providing herself with a huge ship's lantern, which usually swung in her hut, she waited till they came forth.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville