For a good while the Hellenes maintained a running fight (1); but at the passage of a gorge the enemy routed them, slaying Smicres himself and those with him to a man.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The impatient Trojans, in a gloomy throng, Embattled roll'd, as Hector rush'd along: To the loud tumult and the barbarous cry The heavens re-echo, and the shores reply: They vow destruction to the Grecian name, And in their hopes the fleets already flame.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Nikánat ug usa ka líbu ang gastu, The expenses reached a thousand pesos.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And do you think I'm always going to elect Republicans?
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

As the result thereof the company in question renounced the exclusive privilege, and the representative of France was informed that, understanding this relinquishment to be construed as granting the entire reciprocity and equal facilities which had been demanded, the opposition to the landing of the cable was withdrawn.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

There is a snow-belt extending around the south edge of the Great Lakes that annually gives the Eastern railroad men a good opportunity to sympathize with the Westerners.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Think of that, ye parsons who imagine that a large majority are going to eternal ruin.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

When a grenade drops into a German trench everybody runs.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[165] of Musgrave; but either by some infernal power, or else by chicanery and guile, the everlasting resources of your cursed nation.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

“And who is Alexander Gallus?” the emperor rejoined.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

There is no more graceful foliage than that of this plant, and gratefully the eye rests upon these waves of delicate green under a blazing, grape-ripening sky.
— from East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Crumple the whole of the silk into miniature waves, and glue the edges round the edges of the case and to the strip of wood fastened across the front 7 in.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables

He is then debauched and given to entering rooms not his own at any hour he chooses.
— from Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne