He was upon the point of marrying Acte 590 , his freedwoman, having suborned some men of consular rank to swear that she was of royal descent.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

83 From a Norman baron, Baldwin de Brioniis, who had been invested by the Conqueror, Hawise, the wife of Reginald, derived the honor of Okehampton, which was held by the service of ninety-three knights; and a female might claim the manly offices of hereditary viscount or sheriff, and of captain of the royal castle of Exeter.
— 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

Instigated by such suggestions, they unanimously rose in arms, led by Boadicea, 73 a woman of royal descent (for they make no distinction between the sexes in succession to the throne), and attacking the soldiers dispersed through the garrisons, stormed the fortified posts, and invaded the colony 74 itself, as the seat of slavery.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

He set chairs for both of them, and going to a peg behind the door, proceeded to put on a coat and waistcoat of rough, dark tweed; he buttoned it up neatly, and came back to sit down at his table.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Day after day and night after night we have wandered among the crumbling wonders of Rome; day after day and night after night we have fed upon the dust and decay of five-and-twenty centuries--have brooded over them by day and dreampt of them by night till sometimes we seemed moldering away ourselves, and growing defaced and cornerless, and liable at any moment to fall a prey to some antiquary and be patched in the legs, and “restored” with an unseemly nose, and labeled wrong and dated wrong, and set up in the Vatican for poets to drivel about and vandals to scribble their names on forever and forevermore.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Although they applied themselves to it with the best intentions in the world, it chanced that they always fell to talking about something else, and when Nicholas tried it by himself, he found it impossible to write one-half of what he wished to say, or to pen anything, indeed, which on reperusal did not appear cold and unsatisfactory compared with what he had in his mind.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

All such things she would hear discussed, as we, my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in our unapproachable magnificence never hear them, and from all such things she would fly with the wings of raging Despair.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Manners family, who were of Royal descent, but who, not being descended from an heiress, had no right to quarter the Royal Arms, received the grant of a chief "quarterly azure and gules, in the first and fourth quarters two fleurs-de-lis, and in the second and third a lion passant guardant or."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Yesterday Mr. Gibson, upon his discovering by my discourse to him that I had a willingness, or rather desire, to have him stay with me, than go, as he designed, on Sir W. Warren’s account, to sea, he resolved to let go the design and wait his fortune with me, though I laboured hard to make him understand the uncertainty of my condition or service, but however he will hazard it, which I take mighty kindly of him, though troubled lest he may come to be a loser by it, but it will not be for want of my telling him what he was to think on and expect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Amid all the world of roses, did the raiment of God touch just that one, as He walked in His garden in the cool of the evening?
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

And when the coroner told the jurymen What Mrs. Eaton told him, Winthrop Marion Skilled in the work of running down a tale Said: “I can look up Eaton, Campbell too, And verify or contradict this thing.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

For there were others, rounded domes of tide-washed rock, treacherous ledges, little craggy steeples, sloping shelves, which low water gave up to the sun and where a man might walk dry-shod.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton

young Siddhârtha was of rare distinction, brave and beautiful, a thinker and a hero, married to an amiable and fascinating princess.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

Diameter of lateral pieces at the base 3 ½ Width of odontoid 4 ½ Height of odontoid 3 Length of axis 8 Height of axis 15 Length of third cervical vertebra 21 Length of fourth cervical vertebra 20 Length of fifth cervical vertebra 19 Length of sixth cervical vertebra 18 Length of seventh cervical vertebra 17 Height of seventh cervical (about) 15 Length of centrum, anterior thoracic vertebra ( a ) 6 [10] Width of ball ( a ) 8 Expanse of parapophyses ( a ) 14 Expanse of diapophyses ( a ) 26 Width of neural canal ( a ) 3 Length of centrum, anterior thoracic vertebra ( b ) 8 Width of ball ( b ) 10 Expanse of diapophyses ( b ) 17 Height of neural spine ( b ) 20 Width of neural spine ( b ) 5 Length of rib ( c ) 45 Width of shaft ( c ) 5 Distance from center of capitulum to center of tubercle ( c ) 10 Length of coracoid 50 Antero-posterior diameter, sternal extremity 9 Length of scapula 45 Width of scapula at distal end 15 Length of humerus 80 Width through deltoid crest 24 Least diameter of shaft of humerus 13 Length of ulna 133 Width of ulna at distal extremity 22 Length of radius 130 Width of radius distally 15 Length of wing-finger metacarpal 220 Width of same metacarpal at proximal end 20 Diameter through condyles 15 Transverse diameter of shaft above condyles 10 Length of first phalanx, wing-finger 263 Width of same phalanx at proximal end 24 Width of same phalanx at distal end 15 Width of sternum 67 Length of rib borders 25 Length of femur 75 Diameter of head of femur 5 Diameter of femur through condyles 12 Length of pteroid bone 88 The principal dimensions of this species can be got at with considerable certainty.
— from The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 1 (1892) by Various

The workmen of Rouen declared their adhesion to the Commune; the workmen of Havre, rebuffed by the bourgeois Republicans, constituted an independent group.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The certificate of deposit was of recent date, payable twelve months after date.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

which often ruin domestic happiness, but which a giddy nature incurs without consideration.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron