From either host, the mingled shouts and cries Of Trojans and Rutulians rend the skies.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

It seems to me that painters as a rule represent the Saviour, both on the cross and taken down from it, with great beauty still upon His face.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In all the temples bright and fair As white clouds towering in the air, In streets, and where the cross-ways met, Where holy fig-trees had been set, In open square, in sacred shade, Where merchants' shops their wealth displayed, On all the mansions of the great, And householders of wealth and state, Where'er the people loved to meet, Where'er a tree adorned the street, Gay banners floated to the wind, And ribands round the staves were twined.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

After half a year’s luxurious vagrancy in the islands, I took shipping in a sailing vessel, and regretfully returned to San Francisco—a voyage in every way delightful, but without an incident: unless lying two long weeks in a dead calm, eighteen hundred miles from the nearest land, may rank as an incident.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Lo, flag of truce and chamade; conjuration to halt: Malseigne and Denoue are on the street, coming hither; the soldiers all repentant, ready to submit and march!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The trumpets sound, the banners fly, The glittering spears are ranked ready: The shouts o' war are heard afar, The battle closes deep and bloody; It's not the roar o' sea or shore, Wad mak me langer wish to tarry!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

[A; a] repolish rice that still has some unhusked grains.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For guilt has been usually found to come home to its author; and rumour relates that such was the fate of Swerting.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

About the middle of the sixteenth century the German Stifel introduced the signs +, -, √, and Robert Recorde the sign =.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

"All right," returned the Senator; "when we get home you ask Bramley.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Yet wherefore heaving sway and restless roll This side and that, except to emulate Stability above?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Secession followed hard upon the election of Lincoln; the Southern senators and representatives resigned their seats in the councils of the nation; and that nation was a nation no more.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

The tubercle bursts through the wrapper as growth goes on, and soon above ground appears the well-known form of the mushroom, with a stalk supporting a fleshy head by the center, and on the under surface of this head radiating gills, which are at first covered by a veil that finally gives way and leaves only a ring round the stem.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, November 1883 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

Mr. Kendall enlarges somewhat on this point in a letter of June 22, 1855:— "Most heartily will I concur in a sale of all my interests in the Telegraph at any reasonable rate to such a company as you describe.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

The allied forces drew a ring round the south and east sides of the town, and the sea guarded it on the west, but by way of the north and north-east the Russians had free passage at all times, and could introduce fresh troops and provisions and all the material of war at will, and so the defence was in a state of continuous renewal, and fresh blood was always pouring in to replace the terrible waste inside.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham

Where are those of Toby Lamb and Robin Ram that sleep while the rest are a-feeding?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I heard many a whisper among the diplomatic circle, that this whirl of life, this hot and fierce dissipation, was, in all Russian reigns, the sure precursor of a catastrophe; though none could yet venture to predict its nature.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

In September, Lee and Robert returned to school, and I went to work.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission