Hereupon Sosius dedicated a crown of gold to God, and then went away from Jerusalem, leading Antigonus away in bonds to Antony; then did the axe bring him to his end, 27 who still had a fond desire of life, and some frigid hopes of it to the last, but by his cowardly behavior well deserved to die by it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The circumstances occurred at the commencement of the Trojan war, and are as follows:—The fleet, collected by the Greeks for the siege of Troy, had assembled at Aulis, in Bœotia, and was about to set sail, when Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief, had the misfortune to kill accidentally a stag which was grazing in a grove, sacred to Artemis.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

I approached him; he ran away, then he came back again; and I bent down on one knee trying to coax him to approach me, with soft words.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I am afraid his Query has never been answered; for that age was not adorned and illustrated by any work like one in which we rejoice,—a work of which, lest a more unguarded expression of our feelings should be indelicate, and subject us to the suspicion of flattery, we will be content to say boldly, that, though less in size and cost, it is cotemporaneous with the Great Exhibition.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

There is a story, which may not be true, about an ignorant Boer farmer there who thought that this white flag was the national flag of England.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

He raised me, and, as I bent towards the door, led me to the stairs foot, and, saluting me there again, left me to go up to my closet, where I threw myself on my knees in raptures of joy, and blessed that gracious God, who had thus changed my distress to happiness, and so abundantly rewarded me for all the sufferings I had passed through.—And
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

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— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The stranger ran his arm down his waistcoat, and as if by a miracle the buttons to which his empty sleeve pointed became undone.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Her suppliant hands began to shake, When thus again Lord Indra spake: “O Rambhá, drive thy fears away, And as I bid do thou obey.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

My father is annoyed at its being such milk-and-water.
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

The neo-classicists, limiting the sense and application of Aristotle's definition of poetry as an imitation of life, regarded the fable as the medium of this imitation, and the more perfect according as it became more truly and more minutely an image of human life.
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

I could see when I first spoke to you how much you were astonished that I knew anything about it, but remember, every Pole in London knows all about his fellow-countrymen, and so it is very natural that I know something of Richard Gessner.
— from Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar by Max Pemberton

so very unnatural; they being poor, as they say they are, and I being rich as they think I am!
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The flowers are sometimes nearly half an inch long, of a bright rose or crimson colour, and are arranged in broken, one-sided racemes.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

Political science in this essay takes rank as an independent branch of philosophy, and the points which Dante seeks to establish are supported by arguments implying much historical knowledge, though quaintly scholastic in their application.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

Tyrone (171), a central county of Ulster, Ireland; is hilly, picturesque, and fertile in the lower districts; a considerable portion is taken up by barren mountain slopes and bogland, and agriculture is backward; coal and marble are wrought; Omagh is the capital, and Strabane and Dungannon are prosperous towns.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

“’Er own daughter was sitting there beside ’er with ’alf a dozen silver bangles on ’er wrist, and a sort of thing ’anging around ’er neck, as, ’ad it been real, would ’ave been worth perhaps a thousand pounds.
— from Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Your “local” must have been absent; and I beg the privilege in behalf of myself and many others of doing tardy justice to the successful efforts of the Aid Society at their debut February 22nd.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards