After first consulting the god at Delphi and receiving a favourable answer, they sent off the colonists, Spartans, and Perioeci, inviting also any of the rest of the Hellenes who might wish to accompany them, except Ionians, Achaeans, and certain other nationalities; three Lacedaemonians leading as founders of the colony, Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Thine enemy, King, am I. With thine own hand thou slewest my dear lord, A knight of Uther in the Barons' war, When Lot and many another rose and fought Against thee, saying thou wert basely born.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Thence down with Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Rider, who was there (going along with us from the East Indya house to-day) to discourse of my Lord Peterborough’s accounts, and then walked over the Parke, and in Mr. Cutler’s coach with him and Rider as far as the Strand, and thence I walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, where by agreement I met my wife, and there dined with the young ladies; my Lady, being not well, kept her chamber.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For, about the same time (in 1648), the Arctic Ocean was reached on the north shores of Siberia, and a fleet under the Cossack Dishinef Page 140 sailed from Kolyma and reached as far as the straits known by the name of Behring.
— from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs

At the present time we know which was the aim of the honourable board, and for which project three or four men have rushed the country into a great expense, and risked the reputation of our arms, and the life of many hundred men, had the general, your deceived friend, been as rash and foolish as they seem to have expected.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

At work all day, with a good hot dinner in the middle; then back to the shanties at dark, to as rousing a fire and tiptop swagan as anybody could ask for.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The attempt to put it into force merely shows the condition of racing at the time and the opposition which men who were honourable in their motives had to meet with in their efforts to guard it against reproach, as far as their sporting instincts allowed them.
— from The Portland Peerage Romance by Charles J. Archard

As regards any further attempt to stay the tide of defeat, all was now over.
— from The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Samuel Adams Drake

Come on, boy, and I'll give you a ride as far as the spring."
— from The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland by George Pattullo

He could roll up in a rug and find all the sleep that he needed.
— from The Seventh Noon by Frederick Orin Bartlett

What a glorious sight it was, no puling little affair, such as is called a spring at the North, but a basin two hundred feet across, the water boiling up in the centre in a jet as large round as a hogshead, and rising a foot above the surface, clear as crystal, and gleaming like gems, the irridescent waves spreading away from the central source in lines of glistening transparency, the sunlight reflected from every ripple, as from a thousand prisms.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

He growls and prowls, and roams and foams, about the stage, in every direction, like a tiger in his cage, so that I never know on what side of me he means to be; and keeps up a perpetual snarling and grumbling like the aforesaid tiger, so that I never feel quite sure that he has done , and that it is my turn to speak.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

HOW SUCH AS RISE AS FAR AS THE SOUL MAY ACHIEVE FAITH IN THE INTELLIGIBLE.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus