The rumor of this domestic revolution excited a tumult in the city; but Porphyrogenitus alone, the true and lawful emperor, was the object of the public care; and the sons of Lecapenus were taught, by tardy experience, that they had achieved a guilty and perilous enterprise for the benefit of their rival.
— 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

2 [A] give a physical examination.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He also gave a particular exhortation to the principal men of the Hebrews, and encouraged the whole army as it stood armed before him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud, bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He explained to me the act of the Legislature under which the institution was founded; told me that the building was situated near Alexandria, in the parish of Rapides, and was substantially finished; that the future management would rest with a Board of Supervisors, mostly citizens of Rapides Parish, where also resided the Governor-elect, T. O. Moore, who would soon succeed him in his office as Governor and president ex officio; and advised me to go at once to Alexandria, and put myself in communication with Moore and the supervisors.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Very often a man could get no work in Packingtown for months, while a child could go and get a place easily; there was always some new machine, by which the packers could get as much work out of a child as they had been able to get out of a man, and for a third of the pay.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

They are graded as Private Estate (washed or dry hulled) and Blue Bean (washed).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Bernstein , Rev. Aaron, born in Skalat, Galicia, in 1841, received, as an only son, a good and pious early education, and was when quite young brought under the influence of the wonder Rabbi of the town, with whose grandson he learned Talmud at school.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

“In strictest secrecy carve this to shape— Let never an admiral or captain scent Save Villeneuve and Ganteaume; and pen each charge With your own quill.
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy

Sympathetic motives may lead to self-sacrifice; but this is also true of selfish motives; gin is a more potent source of imprudence, even in a moderate sense, than family affection; and the sympathetic motives have on their side the far greater intrinsic advantage, that they promote ends more permanent, far richer in interest, and giving a proper employment to all the faculties of our nature, besides the intrinsic advantages that spring from friendly relations with the society of which we form a part.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Seldom extending itself in any considerable degree among the other classes of the community, it has been supposed that Liverpool was little subject to fever; but this will be shewn from authentic documents to be a great and pernicious error.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

I should say that M. de Chabrol was a great and practical economist seeing he had five millions in his safe and no candles in his candlesticks.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

More than once "the mother, with her boys and girls, and perhaps even a little child in her arms, were immolated together,"—for sometimes the wretched children, instead of being immediately sacrificed, were allowed to live until they had offspring whose sad fate was determined ere their birth.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

If we find a gross and palpable error in the calculations, we are not surprised or troubled that the person who made this mistake has reached a different result from ours.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

We were lately coming along that favourite lounge of the cigar-smokers, Sackville Street, when, arriving near Mitchell’s, two young well-dressed, moustached, and imperialled dandies, stept out from that intellectual emporium, each with a Havannah in his mouth, his hands in his “Dorsay” pockets, and looking as grave as possible, evidently impressed with the pleasing idea that they were the admiration and envy of all passers.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841 by Various

Opposite the left aisle, near to where the long street joins the large conventual and other gardens, the Medici had a casino, to which were attached grounds and plantations extending as far as the Via San Gallo.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

The press is a great and peccant engine; and who has public interest more at heart than your editor?
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis