Nor less on either side tempestuous fell His arrows, from the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with eyes, and from the living Wheels, Distinct alike with multitude of eyes, One Spirit in them rul'd, and every eye Glar'd lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire Among th' accurst, that witherd all thir strength, 850 And of thir wonted vigour left them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

He sent envoys to the Achaeans, who were friends of the Romans, exhorting them to remain neutral; and on the other hand the Romans urged them to take up arms.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

I used at first to wonder how when I awoke in the early morning my chemise was drawn up close to my neck, and your mother’s was in the same state, and our two naked bodies closely united by the embracing arms of your mother.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

And when we have gotten a great deal of gold and silver, and any other thing that is of great value, and deserving regard, and see a beautiful woman, we leave all these things, and with open mouth fix our eyes upon her countenance, and are willing to forsake what we have, that we may enjoy her beauty, and procure it to ourselves.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Instead of the colourless air of the uplands, the atmosphere down there was a deep blue.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

d into talk about other things, and Margaret was soon deeply engaged in an account of her presentation at Court.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Their followers, in company with the chief’s henchmen, and other inhabitants of Omarakana, squatted all over the baku (central place), engaged in conversation.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

To the question why they broke the treaty, I answer by placing first an account of their grounds of complaint and points of difference, that no one may ever have to ask the immediate cause which plunged the Hellenes into a war of such magnitude.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

They had looked for it, but could not find it, and the fairies would never take any of them to it.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various

The arsenal of Cavite is being prepared for occupation by United States troops on the arrival of the transports.”
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis

Sometimes we knocked ourselves with painful abruptness against hard projections, at other times we sank to our knees in a mass of soft, wet guano teeming with animal life of various kinds, but mostly of the biting or stinging character.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

But a capital error is abroad concerning America on this very subject of commerce.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

When they have reached the age of two years, they start out and make a house of their own, the beavers born the spring before, becoming the medium size, and a new litter taking their place.
— from Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture by Elmer Harry Kreps

"'I am writing to the First Consul,' I replied, 'to convey to him the wishes of the council and of the condemned man.'
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Strangers still to the majority of those present, their close relationship to the Governor assigned to them at once the most prominent place, and it was but natural that they should form a centre of attraction round which all converged.
— from No Surrender by E. Werner

As regards this Atys then, the dream signified to Croesus that he should lose him by the blow of an iron spear-point: 35 and when he rose up from sleep and considered the matter with himself, he was struck with fear on account of the dream; and first he took for his son a wife; and whereas his son had been wont to lead the armies of the Lydians, he now no longer sent him forth anywhere on any such business; and the javelins and lances and all such things which men use for fighting he conveyed out of the men's apartments and piled them up in the inner bed-chambers, for fear lest something hanging up might fall down upon his son.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The position of the Kāyasths has greatly risen during the last century on account of their own abi
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

It will be seen at once that the scheme would have been impossible under Home Rule; for the English Government had by the end of March 1911, agreed to advance the enormous sum of nearly £118,000,000; an amount which no [pg 160] Irish Government could have raised except at such an exorbitant rate of interest that it would have been out of the question.
— from Is Ulster Right? by Anonymous