After the Athenians had retired from Argos with their fleet, and the Lacedaemonians also, the Argives made an incursion into the Phlisaid, and returned home after ravaging their land and killing some of the inhabitants.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In spite of imperfections and roughness, his Annals remained the foremost and representative Roman poem till Vergil wrote the Aeneid .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But a second cousin o' mine, a drovier, was a rare hand at remembering the Scotch tunes.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The same causes which, in the progress of improvement, gradually raise the price of butcher's meat, should have the same effect, it may be thought, upon the prices of wool and raw hides, and raise them, too, nearly in the same proportion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have a right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the courage of the troops you command justify us in expecting.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As the self-esteemed great man was holding the mother in conversation, he noticed with pride that the child, who reposed on the hearthrug with a school-slate tilted on her knee, was making furtive glances up at his face, and returning her attention regularly to the slate, on which she kept scrawling with a pencil.
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

At length she succeeded in doing so, and for the moment at any rate was safe, but, as she looked at the water all round her, and realized that even when the river was low she could not reach the bank unaided, she felt that it would be better to drown at once than to die a slow death from starvation, which seemed the only fate before her if she remained in the tree.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

The commander also represents himself as recapitulating to Spencer the arts he had used to seduce the crew.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Will whoever responds to this appeal insert in an early issue of the Boston Transcript under the head of personals, the following: ‘X. Y. Z.—The golden key has unlocked a responsive heart,’ and relieve the writer of this of a heavy burden?” “H’m!”
— from The Golden Key; Or, A Heart's Silent Worship by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

Many omit this last operation, but I think it takes away any remaining harshness, and renders the tobacco more mellow.
— from A treatise on the culture of the tobacco plant with the manner in which it is usually cured Adapted to northern climates, and designed for the use of the landholders of Great-Britain. by Jonathan Carver

The fair lady—with a wax doll’s beauty, not very young, confining herself to George Sand in literature, making three toilettes a day, and having a large account at the dentist’s—singled out the young poet with a romantic head, and rapidly traversed with him the whole route through the country of Love.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée

We are going to have a real hard and rough time of it until, at all events, we have turned the enemy out of the first objective.
— from The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon

A rumour had already run through the camp that the guide was in trouble, and the Ankoli wore an anxious look when he came up.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

You have my consent, therefore, to your entering a religious house, and remaining there until you shall hear, from the person whom you have informed me has undertaken to let you know what is passing there, that some change has taken place, either in his sentiments towards this girl, or in his health.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 1 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty