23 These agricultural Scythians occupy the region which extends Eastwards for a distance of three days' journey, 24 reaching to a river which is called Panticapes, and Northwards for a distance of eleven days' sail up the Borysthenes.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

With a river, lake, and coastwise commerce estimated at over two thousand millions of dollars per year; with a railway traffic of four to six thousand millions per year, and the annual domestic exchanges of the country running up to nearly ten thousand millions per year; with over two thousand millions of dollars invested in manufacturing, mechanical, and mining industry; with over five hundred millions of acres of land in actual occupancy, valued, with their appurtenances, at over seven thousand millions of dollars, and producing annually crops valued at over three thousand millions of dollars; with a realm which, if the density of Belgium's population were possible, would be vast enough to include all the present inhabitants of the world; and with equal rights guaranteed to even the poorest and humblest of our forty millions of people—we can, with a manly pride akin to that which distinguish'd the palmiest days of Rome, claim," &c., &c., &c.— Vice-President Colfax's Speech, July 4, 1870 .
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The uncaused nature of will has been actually recognised, where it manifests itself most distinctly, as the will of man, and this has been called free, independent.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Walter and Una and Shirley and Di and Carl and Rilla went in a group.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This holds of all relatives with inflected form, such as quīcumque , quālis , quantus , &c., &c. 1803.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

the courts were kept in the king’s house, wheresoever he was lodged, as may appear by ancient records, whereof I have seen many, but for example set forth one in the Chapter of Towers and Castles.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

For as a sudden question addressed to an individual will sometimes startle him into a reply which is an unguarded expression of his genuine sentiments, so the figure of question and interrogation blinds the judgment of an audience, and deceives them into a belief that what is really the result of labour in every detail has been struck out of the speaker by the inspiration of the moment.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Climate, climate is not southern, a little glass, a bright winter, a strange supper an elastic tumbler, all this shows that the back is furnished and red which is red is a dark color.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

The dead emperor had been borne tenderly to the palace, and all Russia was in tears, either of joy or sorrow.
— from The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia by Allan Arnold

Again the sheriffs and remembrancer were instructed to go to Windsor and tender the court's acknowledgments of her majesty's favour and to assure her that they would discountenance to the utmost of their power and put a stop to "those malicious rumours which had been so industriously spread by evil disposed persons to the prejudice of credit and the imminent hazard of public peace and tranquility."
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

P. P. Bell at Rouen (Vol. viii., p. 448.; Vol. ix., p. 233.).—A portion of the great George d'Ambois is preserved in the Museum of Antiquities at Rouen, where I saw it four years ago.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

That is quite probable in view of the rebuilding and repairing which is now in progress.
— from Buddhism and Buddhists in China by Lewis Hodous

"It was all right when I left, an hour or so ago, lad.
— from Marching on Niagara; Or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier by Edward Stratemeyer

You set out when you will, and rest when it pleases you.
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

I swam round her twice, and the second time I spied a small piece of a rope, which I wondered I did not see at first, hang down by the fore-chains so low, as that with great difficulty, I got hold of it, and by the help of that rope got into the forecastle of the ship.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

Falsely when things are represented which in the real view would alter (as the picture objects cannot) in their mutual effects by advancing towards or retreating from them.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

He judged the work in the following words: “The music is slight and often trivial—in the style of Halévy and Meyerbeer; but in the more dramatic scenes there are already some traces of that language of force and realism which I have since striven to develop in my Russian music.”
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch

When Dr. Slop’s maid delivered the green bays bag with her master’s instruments in it, to Obadiah , she very sensibly exhorted him to put his head and one arm through the strings, and ride with it slung across his body: so undoing the bow-knot, to lengthen the strings for him, without any more ado, she helped him on with it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne