— Institutions Of The French Or Latin Kingdom.
— 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

Indeed, they lived together in Ninth Street, in a boarding-house, there, which had the honor of lodging and partially feeding several other young fellows of like kidney, who have since gone their several ways into fame or into obscurity.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

When he reached the foot of Lan Kuan the snow was so deep that he could not go on.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The first is our noble and excellent making; the second, our precious and dearworthy again-buying; the third, all-thing that He hath made beneath us, [He hath made] to serve us, and for our love keepeth it.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I couldn't even give poor heartbroken Fred one little kiss, because of my promise to Ken.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The glassy forms of lava, known as obsidian, can be found in great quantities over the slopes of the hills in Sanaroa and Dobu.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"I must have lived fully three years in that secluded school-house hearth," said he, "drinking thirstily of the ever-flowing fount of limpid knowledge before me."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In the bulletin of June 21st he blames the "punic faith" of Lord Keith at Genoa, a criticism the Admiral repaid with usury fifteen years later.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The First Crusade.—Part I. Origin And Numbers Of The First Crusade.—Characters Of The Latin Princes.—Their March To Constantinople.—Policy Of The Greek Emperor Alexius.—Conquest Of Nice, Antioch, And Jerusalem, By The Franks.—Deliverance Of The Holy Sepulchre.— Godfrey Of Bouillon, First King Of Jerusalem.—Institutions Of The French Or Latin Kingdom.
— 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

With the flood of light Katherine's ease returned, and she laughed lightly as she pointed to a gaudily decorated sheet of music on the piano.
— from The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

"For once Lady Kitty behaved herself!"
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He is a tradition from the time when the fund of liberal knowledge was so small that the university undertook to serve it all up in a pint-pot to whoever might apply.
— from An American at Oxford by John Corbin

Women in the harvest fields of Land King Bates are common as men, and wagons, and horses, but not nearly so much considered.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

My cousin, why isn’t Strelsau mourning for our lamented king?
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

Her answer was full of loving kindness, and after that our fraternal intercourse seemed re-established on the old footing.
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Mr. F. was a native of Kentucky, a man of open frank manners, and most kind benevolent feelings, who had seen much of frontier life, had lived a number of years in Missouri, and now at a rather advanced period of life, possessed a fund of local knowledge and experience, the communication of which rendered the time I spent at his house both profitable and pleasing.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

To endeavour to force upon a state of society, so unprepared for them, such full grown institutions; to 154 think of engrafting, at once, on an ignorant people the fruits of long knowledge and cultivation,—of importing among them, ready made, those advantages and blessings which no nation ever attained but by its own working out, nor ever was fitted to enjoy but by having first struggled for them; to harbour even a dream of the success of such an experiment, implies a sanguineness almost incredible, and such as, though, in the present instance, indulged by the political economist and soldier, was, as we have seen, beyond the poet.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

How in my presence the devil fetched old Lizzie Kolken .
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

He has a solid reputation founded on large knowledge and great industry.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York