After a tedious march, his Majesty with his army arriv'd at Worcester on the 22. of August, (being near three hundred miles from S. Johnstons in Scotland,) having left the Earl of Darby in Lancashire, as well to settle that and the adjacent counties in a posture of defence, against Cromwell and his confederates; as to raise some auxiliary forces to recruit his Majesties army, in case the successe of a battle should not prove so happy as all good men desired.
— from Boscobel Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester, 3. Sept. 1651 by Thomas Blount

The two centuries between were a period of development and change, a development in all that regards technique, a change in national ideals and in the artist's attitude toward life and toward his art.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

In 1738-39 the British at the three Presidencies were startled by the news that Nadir Shah had invaded India with a [32] large Persian army from the north-west, and had plundered the city and palaces of Delhi and carried away the spoil of Northern India.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler

Yet the very patents sought and granted for exclusive trades and manufactures, though tending to diminish commerce by fettering it, are proofs of demand and consumption, and of the industrial energy of the age.
— from London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

Galen said, as I pointed out just now, that the arteries dilate as bellows, which have an active power of dilatation and contraction, and not as bags which are blown out and collapse.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

This was a tragedy of the sea, a pantomine of danger and conflict and celebration.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

“Shall I speak English, Captain Grant?” he said, thrusting aside a pile of documents and clearing a space on the table at which he was busy.
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

Sebastian looked over a pile of designs, and chose a flat but lurid young woman, in a sphinx-like attitude against a background of purple trees.
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

He was asked by a certain Mr. Joseph Delaplaine, of Philadelphia, to paint a portrait of ex-President John Adams for half price, the portrait to be engraved and included in "Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters," and, from letters of a later date, I believe that Morse consented to this.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse