The lofty forehead, the aquiline nose, the well-marked eyebrows, the decided chin, the fine dark eyes, all recalled Sir Philip to her mind, and she said to herself that when his hair became silvery too, the likeness between him and his mother would be more striking still.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

376 Some Dogs espied a raw hide sunk in a river.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

More than once he had reached that part of the garden where the famous boarded gate stood overlooking the deserted enclosure, always returning by the same path, to begin his walk again, at the same pace and with the same gesture, when he accidentally turned his eyes towards the house, whence he heard the noisy play of his son, who had returned from school to spend the Sunday and Monday with his mother.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Consequently nothing can really shake the confidence of the public in the Lord Chamberlain’s department except a remorseless and unbowdlerized narration of the licentious fictions which slip through its net, and are hallmarked by it with the approval of the Throne.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

The gates of the camp were instantly thrown open to the purchaser; he was declared emperor, and received an oath of allegiance from the soldiers, who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he should pardon and forget the competition of Sulpicianus.
— 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

Now we have already observd, that however philosophers may distinguish betwixt the objects and perceptions of the senses; which they suppose co-existent and resembling; yet this is a distinction, which is not comprehended by the generality of mankind, who as they perceive only one being, can never assent to the opinion of a double existence and representation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And then Dmitri escaped and ran into the street, and I ran after him; but I did not catch him, and went back to the flat alone; I had to clear up my things.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A white yashmak, violet in the night, covers her face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and raven hair.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

But when he has done this he may meet with a new difficulty, even as respects this very constellation.
— from Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

Desiderius Erasmus , a renowned Dutch humanist, was born at Rotterdam, 1465 or 1467, and died July 12, 1536.
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

And just as closely does each atom retain its own peculiar properties, regardless of its surroundings.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked “Reserved”: the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

GAZA, plan of attack on. —Ali Muntar. —defences. —El Arish redoubt.
— from How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by W. T. (William Thomas) Massey

They could copy her work in a time that was short compared with what would have been necessary to decipher, expand, and rewrite their own half-intelligible notes.
— from Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

When gold is wanted for export, the bank is often glad to sell bar gold or double eagles at rates somewhat more advantageous to the exporter than would be the export of sovereigns; this the bank can afford to do, for the expense of coining sovereigns to replace those exported is thus saved, while the exporter, if he can get bar gold on the same basis as sovereigns, avoids the losses of abrasion.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

It seemed as if war could not but break out as early as 571; but by Philip's instructions, his younger son, Demetrius, effected a reconciliation between his father and Rome, where he had lived some years as a hostage and was a great favourite.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

Decherd made a distinct effort at recovering himself.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough