A hundred thousand warriors were assembled at Aulis, and in its bay floated over a thousand ships, ready to convey them to the Trojan coast.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Of the object aimed at by those who have complicated matters to the point of making their resolution almost impossible by ordinary methods I am aware; as also I am aware of the identity of the ringleader, despite the skill with which he has sought to conceal his share in the scandal.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

In private he was a warm friend; at the Bar an able advocate, and in Parliament a firm patriot.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I began now to repose myself, live after my old fashion, and take care of my family affairs; and for a while I lived easy enough, only that I was more vigilant than I used to be, looked out oftener, and did not go abroad so much; and if at any time I did stir with any freedom, it was always to the east part of the island, where I was pretty well satisfied the savages never came, and where I could go without so many precautions, and such a load of arms and ammunition as I always carried with me if I went the other way.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Admiral Dewey gave them arms and ammunition, as I did subsequently at his request.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I never loved him at all, Angel, as I loved you.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The successors of Clovis inflicted one hundred lashes on the peasants who refused to destroy their idols; the crime of sacrificing to the demons was punished by the Anglo-Saxon laws with the heavier penalties of imprisonment and confiscation; and even the wise Alfred adopted, as an indispensable duty, the extreme rigor of the Mosaic institutions.
— 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

There came also letters from Herod's friends at Rome, by the approbation and at the suggestion of Antipater, to accuse Archelaus and Philip, as if they calumniated their father on account of the slaughter of Alexander and Aristobulus, and as if they commiserated their deaths, and as if, because they were sent for home, [for their father had already recalled them,] they concluded they were themselves also to be destroyed.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At first, when I called him ‘St. Clair’ he would not take the least notice until I’d spoken two or three times; and then, when the other boys nudged him, he would look up with such an aggrieved air, as if I’d called him John or Charlie and he couldn’t be expected to know I meant him.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And if the State Legislature comes along and asks any impertinent questions, they can open their books and say: 'See, we have spent this much for improvements.
— from The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair

As an actor and interested witness of the marvelous changes which have occurred in the settlement and civilization of the “North-west Territory,” the author places before the reader this book, entitled, “ The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life .”
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones

And if you are sent for shall you go?' Widdowson seemed to mutter an affirmative, and added,— 'I shall hear what she has to tell me, as she promised.' 'Is it—is it possible—?' The lady's question remained incomplete.
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing

Toby's tears ran like rain down his face, and he kissed his dying pet again and again, as if he would take all the pain to himself.
— from Harper's Young People, April 19, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

There was also remaining in the establishment a man servant, an amphibious animal as it were, not because he lived partly on land and partly in water, but as living partly in the house and partly out of it.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

But first of all, I am an American, and in America every man who is not a policeman or a dude is a workingman.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Santlow, Hester, her first appearance as an actress, ii. 95; her manner and appearance, ii. 95; her character, ii. 96, note 1; her marriage with Booth, ii. 96, note 1.
— from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Colley Cibber

He was an artillerist and an inventor, and was a son of Lieutenant General Sir William Congreve; was distinguished as a military man, as a member of parliament, and as a business man; was an inventor of note, having invented a war rocket, a gun-recoil mounting, a time-fuse, a parachute attachment for rockets, a hydro-pneumatic canal lock sluice, a process for color painting, a new form of steam engine, a method of consuming smoke, a clock which measured time by a ball rolling down an inclined plane, besides other inventions and discoveries.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance