He was engaged, by promise and affection, to prefer the residence of France; and, after dragging his court through Poitou and Gascony, and devouring, by his expense, the cities and convents on the road, he finally reposed at Avignon, 80 which flourished above seventy years 81 the seat of the Roman pontiff and the metropolis of Christendom.
— 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

Looks were exchanged between parent and parent.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

That is true, he replied, if the deficiency be in his soul; but if there be any merely bodily defect in another he will E be patient of it, and will love all the same.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The humiliation of having, in some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of having for so long cherished a just instinct.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“It would either be put in his room or sent on after him.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

2. "Treat thine enemy as though a friend, and he will become thy friend," was expressed by Publius Syrus, a Roman slave, which is a wiser admonition than that of Christ, "Love thine enemy," as it is a moral impossibility.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Verjuice, or green juice, which, with vinegar, formed the essential basis of sauces, and is now extracted from a species of green grape, which never ripens, was originally the juice of sorrel; another sort was extracted by pounding the green blades of wheat.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

All this makes it clear that a nobler and wider view of Ethics is needed, if we are in earnest about our endeavour to truly account for the significance of human conduct—a significance which extends beyond phaenomena and is eternal.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The increase of business which fell to the provost's office, especially after the boundaries of Paris were extended by Philip Augustus, caused him to be released from the duty of collecting the public taxes.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

From that day a tender and passionate friendship such as exists only between women was established between Princess Mary and Natásha.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"The nave of Amiens alone grows beautifully less as it rises with as eager a spring from the earth; but the body of the Amiens church is light and uncomforting, and that of Chartres is mysterious and hushed; of all cathedrals it is that which best suggests the idea of a delicate, saintly woman, emaciated by prayer, and almost transparent by fasting.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Notwithstanding they are comfortably located, and have secured the larger part of that island and the better portion of British Columbia, there is occasionally a British subject that grumbles a little about them in the following undignified style:— “If the company were to be destroyed to-morrow, would England be poorer?
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

The atrocious criminals live in the upper story, and are immured two together in a cell, without ever being permitted to come into the open air.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

After the designs of the same man, likewise, the glass windows were executed by Pastorino da Siena, an able master of that craft; and Perino caused the walls below to be prepared with very beautiful ornaments in stucco, intending to paint scenes there with his own hand, which were afterwards continued by the painter Daniello Ricciarelli of Volterra, who, if death had not cut short the noble aspirations that he had, would have proved how the moderns have the courage not only to equal the ancients with their works, but perhaps even to surpass them by a great measure.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Giorgio Vasari

The whole country around was enlivened by people employed in the works of agriculture.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

And he goes on to emphasize the fact that "no complete manual will ever be published upon 'How to Become a Good Mine Manager.'
— from The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) Hoskin

This mandement, composed in a style of ecclesiastical eloquence [604] that never was exceeded by Pope, Jesuit, Inquisitor, or Sorbonite, he sent in print by a courier to D'Argens, who, frightened out of his wit, fled by cross roads out of France and back to Berlin, to the greater joy of the philosophical court; for the laugh of Europe, which they had raised at the expense of the learned Marquis.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The conduct of the officers and men war entirely beyond praise.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

It had been written in an interval of that typing of local official communications which was Private Tully's daily contribution to the waging of the European War; and it had not been written earlier because Private Tully was too sullen of heart to write.
— from William—An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

That the ancient Greeks and Romans were accustomed to engrave on copper and other metals in a similar manner, is evident from engraved pateræ and other ornamental works executed by people of those nations.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn