and after they have almost sent for the enemy, not suffer the armies to be levied against the enemies?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

As the hour of eleven drew near a person watching her might have noticed that every now and then Tess's glance flitted wistfully to the brow of the hill, though she did not pause in her sheafing.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The reason the Lion did not have to do as the Witch wished was that every night, while the woman was asleep Dorothy carried him food from the cupboard.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It is nearly as big as a wild chicken, and good to eat, named for its sound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not wan from Asia's fetiches, Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter-house, (Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere, But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence, These virgin lands, lands of the Western shore, To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new, You promis'd long, we pledge, we dedicate.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

" Thus having said, the gallant chiefs alight, Their hands they join, their mutual faith they plight; [pg 116] Brave Glaucus then each narrow thought resign'd, (Jove warm'd his bosom, and enlarged his mind,)
— from The Iliad by Homer

The navigation of the Euphrates never ascended above Babylon, nor that of the Tigris above Opis.
— 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

The elder now has begun influencing him, especially since he tried to hang himself.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The irresistible authority of justice in countries in which the sovereignty in undivided is derived from the fact that the tribunals of those countries represent the entire nation at issue with the individual against whom their decree is directed, and the idea of power is thus introduced to corroborate the idea of right.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Rambouillet 303 Adieu 303 157 LETTERS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE AFTER THE DIVORCE AND BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE WITH MARIE LOUISE.
— 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

In a thunder-storm the barge's mast and sail were blown overboard, and the explorers, narrowly escaping from the fury of the elements, found it necessary to remain for two days on an island, which they named Limbo, but it is now known as one of Watts' Islands.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

The conversation around the stove that evening never once drifted from that subject.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

The main purpose of this historic gathering was to bring the populace of Ulster face to face with their new leader, and to give him an opportunity of making a definite pronouncement of a policy for Ulster, in view of the entirely novel situation resulting from the passing of the Parliament Act.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

They employ nurses to do the night nursing, except in very serious cases that require especial attention.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

Later in the evening Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathaea and other men and women of the faith came in to try to cheer the anxious and divert their minds from impending gloom.
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

"But no one is forced to consider it at all—to that extent," Nora said.
— from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant