However, owing to the dispute, nothing had been settled as to when they should start; and night coming on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd took fright in a moment in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable; and persuaded that an army many times more numerous than that which had really arrived was advancing and all but upon them, suddenly broke and fled in the direction of home, and thus compelled Perdiccas, who at first did not perceive what had occurred, to depart without seeing Brasidas, the two armies being encamped at a considerable distance from each other.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

At last, after passing through a long succession of rooms, young Von Rabbek and the officers came into a small room where there was a billiard-table.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

an sit natus conjugem habiturus, facile an difficulter sit sponsam impetraturus, quot conjuges, quo tempore, quales decernantur nato uxores, de mutuo amore conjugem , both in men's and women's genitures, by the examination of the seventh house the almutens, lords and planets there, a ☉d et ☾a &c., by particular aphorisms,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Pernambuca (tho’ mention’d last) is the second in Dignity, a large and populous Town, and has its rise from the Ruins of Olinda , (or the handsome,) a City of a far pleasanter Situation, six Miles up the River, but not so commodious for Traffick and Commerce.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

They also house in the dense black clouds, and send storms, hail, thunder and lightning, and poison the air with their infernal stench.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

My second and wisest one is to play my own game and speak as little as possible to anyone.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The terrible Rudra is represented in a vast number of beliefs, some of them perhaps survivals; in the rough sea and east-wind demon Oegir of the northern world, and Typhon in the south; and in Luther’s faith that ‘devils do house in the dense black clouds, and send storms, hail, thunder and lightning, and poison the air with their infernal stench,’ a doctrine which Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, [ 97 ] too, maintained against the meteorologists of his time.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Sed aliter leges, aliter philosophi tollunt astutias, leges, quatenus manu tenere possunt, philosophi, quatenus ratione et intellegentia.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I patiently endured his disdain, his brutality, and ill-treatment, as long as, perceiving them accompanied by ill-humor, I thought they had in them no portion of hatred; but the moment I saw the design formed of depriving me of the honor I merited by my faithful services, I resolved to resign my employment.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was at this time, in England, the reign of high heads: a sort of triangular cushion or edifice of horsehair, suppose nine inches diagonal, three inches thick, by seven in height, called I believe a toque or a system , was fastened on the female head, I do not well know how, with black pins a quarter of a yard long; and upon and over this system , the hair was erected, and crisped, and frizzed, and thickened with soft pomatum, and filled with powder, white, brown, or red, and made to look as like as possible to a fleece of powdered wool, which battened down on each side of the triangle to the face.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

(1) title: (2) “Ad Lectorem”, a preface to a new edition signed “Philip: Ludovicus Piscator”, the author’s son, 1 May 1629: (3–9) the author’s preface to Beza: 1–203, the treatise: (1–2) “Index [28] locorum communium”.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

Not counting that I'm a private trustee, and, like all private trustees, a fraudulent one.
— from Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

Her mother sat moodily watching her as she folded silks and laces, and packed them away securely in the great Saratoga trunk.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

If this is Miramichi, they ought to be very large,—in fact, the ship’ll bring as large a price there as anywhere; but if it’s the Magdalen Islands, why, of course we can’t expect to do quite so well.
— from Picked up Adrift Illustrated by James De Mille

I wander in and look about me a little, and perhaps take a cup of coffee with a friend at the Hôtel des Bains.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I can swim, of course, and row and paddle a little, and play tennis a little.
— from Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer

Under the system of recall you are not going to secure the men who will work well by looking ahead to preserve the real public interest, but men who are trimmers, devoting their time to politics and doing as little as possible to avoid criticism.
— from Ethics in Service by William H. (William Howard) Taft

Crouching down as low as possible to avoid being struck by the swaying yards and fluttering canvas, the men waited for deliverance--or would it be death?
— from Stories of the Lifeboat by Frank Mundell