A s Athos and Aramis proceeded, and passed different companies on the road, they became aware that they were arriving near the field of battle.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

THE FIRST DROVE OF CAMELS The first drove of camels was, likewise, brought into this country by S. B. Howes, and, being broken to drive in harness, they also proved a powerful drawing card.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup

While at Marseilles, in 1793, Napoleon wrote and published a political dialogue, called "The Supper of Beaucaire"—a judicious, sensible, and able essay, intended to allay the agitation then existing in that city.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

Some good fighting Indians joined him there; and towards the end of June he felt strong enough to send Colonel McKay against the American post at Prairie du Chien.
— from The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood

Laticeps on the other hand, is largely arboreal (particularly adults), prefers dry cliffs, sunny hillsides and hilltops and lives in general above the habitat of fasciatus .”
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Who'll git up grange banquets and rummage sales, and paper and paint and put down carpets in the meetin' house, and git up socials and entertainments to help pay the minister's salary, and carry on the Sunday School? and tend to its picnics and suppers, and take care of the children?
— from Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley

That's a perilous shot out [5075] 185 of an elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can [5076] do against a monarch!
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun , that a poor and private displeasure can do against a monarch.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

His impetuous soul never wholly achieved the mastery of material which only a prolonged and patient drudgery can give, but the images [Pg 78] which hurtled from his imagination were so forceful and superabundant that mere fiery creation, the unburdening of the overloaded heart and brain, was the crying obligation which forced him ever onward, seeking relief often in the mere act of projection.
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge