After describing extraction by means of a knife and scoop he says: ‘If, however, any part of the tumour be left behind, we take another polypus eradicator (ἕτερον πολυποξύστην), and with the end of it (ἐπάκμου αὐτοῦ ξυστηρίου) bring away what remains, by stretching, twisting, and scraping it strongly.’
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

But if thou comest to those abodes and to the land of Hellas, honoured and reverenced shalt thou be by women and men; and they shall worship thee even as a goddess, for that by thy counsel their sons came home again, their brothers and kinsmen and stalwart husbands were saved from calamity.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

But Crocale, 19 the daughter of Ismenus, more skilled than they, gathered her hair, which lay scattered over her neck, into a knot, although she herself was with her hair loose.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He never valued a soldier for his moral conduct or his means, but for his courage only; and treated his troops with a mixture of severity and indulgence; for he did not always keep a strict hand over them, but only when the enemy was near.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The king's daughter received him also kindly, and said he should be welcome to her friendship.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

She was greatly excited at first, and kicked and screamed herself into a sort of stupor, but when supper was brought she ate heartily and seemed brighter, although she refused to let me touch her.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he cast on either side to see whether any knew and shunned him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

She was ten years older than he was, and kept a sharp hand over him, so much so that he had to ask her permission when he went out of the house.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On his return he found the Vicomtesse gracious and kindly, as she had always been to him.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around; California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path; Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves; Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride; In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement, The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth, The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations, The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march, The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies; All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions, All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle; Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields, Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air, The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring, The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside, The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco, The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan; Evening—me in my room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is; The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners, Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers, Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties, The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity, In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands, O lands!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

On the 19th June the Goetzen towed off the steamer Cecil Rhodes , which was lying beached at Kituta, and sank her.
— from My Reminiscences of East Africa by General von (Paul Emil) Lettow-Vorbeck

His uncle writes to have the boy who was brought to Augsburg killed, and says he is marked with a cross.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

To his surprise Mrs. Wakeman started to enter the room from the adjoining kitchen, and seeing him, turned and began to beat a hasty retreat.
— from Northern Georgia Sketches by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

He did not like the idea of facing Aunt Kate again, so he slipped in through the back gate, and walked quietly around the house.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various

[After killing Aemilius Saturninus he took away all the most important prerogatives belonging to the minor officers of the Pretorians, his subordinates, in order that none of them might be so elated by his position of eminence as to lie in wait for the captaincy of the body-guards.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

She is also made to figure in the grand festivities at Kenilworth, although she had been dead fifteen years when these great doings took place.
— from Thames Valley Villages, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

In his ragged dress he certainly did not look like a king, and she had no idea that he was anything but a poor beggar.
— from Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. (John Henry) Haaren

7lb., Rassendyl showed himself improved out of all knowledge, and scored his fourth consecutive win out of four times out.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

When he shot an' killed a squirrel he let us race to see which could get him first, while he laughed at us.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration