1712 The mention of the Hyrini, or people of Hyrium or Hyria, is probably an error, as he has already mentioned Uria, the same place, among the Daunian Apulians, and as on the sea-shore.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In the description of Antioch, it is not easy to define a middle term between her ancient magnificence, under the successors of Alexander and Augustus, and the modern aspect of Turkish desolation.
— 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

For what else is going on in all his days, hours, and moments, until this slow-working death is fully consummated?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They are of the stock that great Jove gave to Tros in payment for his son Ganymede, and are the finest that live and move under the sun.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Sayun ang maglíbun ug tuluy sunug, It is easy to get all of your opponent’s stones when he has three empty holes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The 2d corps, followed by two divisions of the 5th corps, with the cavalry in advance and covering our left flank, forced a passage of Hatcher's Run, and moved up the south side of it towards the South Side Railroad, until the 2d corps and part of the cavalry reached the Boydton Plank Road where it crosses Hatcher's Run.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

And how the Chamberlain of the City did take them down, letting them know how much they were formerly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk’s letter that came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that which they did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no more applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the secluded members be brought in, or a free Parliament chosen.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Maybe the boy was a mutant, used to special food.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

They are most ungainly, tall, stiff, and column-like, much more so than similar works at Reims, 129 or at Amiens, where the sculpture has something of the vigour and warmth of life.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

He stared intently, and moved up the slope of the fort to get a better view, but the mist on the sea thickened again, and the beating of the screws grew fainter.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

“And I looked upwards, and there stood a man upon the summit of the rock; and I hid myself among the water-lilies that I might discover the actions of the man.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Yes, lie of the land is what has mattered to us since we were children, to our fathers and remotest ancestors; and its perception, the instinctive preference for one kind rather than another, is among the obscure things inherited with our blood, and making up the stuff of our souls.
— from Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee

The expedition started on Friday, June 10, from Cyprian Chouteau’s trading-post, near the mouth of the Kansas River, and marched up that stream.
— from Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell

I picked up the other gun and followed him, and in that order we came to the house, and marched up the steps and into the hall.
— from Dead Man's Love by Tom Gallon

“Straightway he quit....” Wind astern, moonlight and mist upon the sea, a serene and tender sky, with a multitude of stars benignantly peeping from its mystery: and the Good Samaritan dawdled on, wing and wing to the breeze, bound across from Sinners’ Tickle to Afterward Bight, there to deal for the first of the catch.
— from Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

As Mac used to sing: “‘’E aint’t no Anzac ’ero who gets ’is photo took, ’E is greasy but a white man is the old Battalion Cook.’
— from Australia at War A Winter Record Made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres, During the Campaigns of 1916 and 1917 by Will Dyson

For her he painted his pictures of them, as they wandered mile after mile up the shore of the Saskatchewan—the little world they would make all for themselves, how they would live, what they would do, the mysteries they would seek out, the triumphs they would achieve, the glory of that world—just for two.
— from The River's End by James Oliver Curwood