The conduct of a Regulus or a Decius was something confirmed beforehand, which had no claim to surprise them.
— from On Love by Stendhal

A register of all deaths which occurred in the city of Rome was kept in Page 184
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In running a race of any distance one man is said to LAP another when he is one entire circuit in front.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He got the hitcher instead, and reached over, and drew in the end of the tow-line; and they made a loop in it, and put it over their mast, and then they tidied up the sculls, and went and sat down in the stern, and lit their pipes.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Has early Christian history then preserved any record of a distinctly Gnostic school existing on the confines of the Apostolic age, which may be considered a legitimate development of the phase of religious speculation that confronts us here?
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Kanai Torofdar is a ryot of a different village; and as to our Babu he has no acquaintance with him.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Again, at the solemn entry of Louis XI. into Paris, a representation of a doe hunt took place near the fountain St. Innocent; "after which the queen received a present of a magnificent stag, made of confectionery, and having the royal arms hung round its neck."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The fruit is lobed and ribbed, of a dull orange colour, and contains several large black seeds, embedded in a succulent and slightly bitter arillus of a pale straw colour, which is eaten when cooked.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

"Do you remember, my dear Aylmer," said she, with a feeble attempt at a smile, "have you any recollection of a dream last night about this odious hand?
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I concluded the vision to be a result of a discussion in my presence of the many stories of burglary with which the newspapers had lately abounded, and reflected with a passing satisfaction that the only windows in the house divided into four panes, as were those of the crystal picture, were in the front attic, and almost inaccessible.
— from Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

He knew Devereux of old at their private school, and that what he hated above all else was getting into a row of any description.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

He looked in the stern eyes of the Girondins, and read only anger, doom, vengeance.
— from In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

That which is meant by “personality” being a limitation and a relation, or, as defined by Coleridge, “individuality existing in itself but with a nature as a ground,” the term cannot of course be applied to non-human Entities; but, as a fact insisted upon by generations of Seers, none of these Beings, high or low, have either individuality or personality as separate Entities, i.e. , they have no individuality in the sense in which a man says, “ I am myself and no one else” ; in other words, they are conscious of no such distinct separateness as men and things have on earth.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

No person who was ever quartered within the walls of Old Fort Snelling seems to have left an account of what was included in the tasks and recreations of a day.
— from Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858 by Marcus Lee Hansen

[477] The Dagger and Pie was in the seventeenth century the sign of a celebrated pie-shop in Cheapside, the Pie being added to the original sign; but from the trades tokens of this house we see that this was represented by a rebus of a dagger with a magpie on the point.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

Was there any reference or any discussion of it or anything said in your presence of the fact that Marina had lived apart, separate and apart from Lee?
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The squire was a clever fellow, and when he saw Erec and Enide, who were coming from the direction of the woods, he perceived that they must have spent the night in the forest and had had nothing to eat or drink; for within a radius of a day's journey there was no town, city or tower, no strong place or abbey, hospice or place of refuge.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

There is toward the center of that stamp a rectangle of a deposit of ink in a certain pattern, sort of a spotty mottled pattern of ink, and this corresponds to the pattern of the blank parts of the date stamp.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission