Now in the place where the journey is least and shortest from the Northern to the Southern Sea (which is also called Erythraian), that is from Mount Casion, which is the boundary between Egypt and Syria, the distance is exactly 137 a thousand furlongs to the Arabian gulf; but the channel is much longer, since it is more winding; and in the reign of Necos there perished while digging it twelve myriads 13701 of the Egyptians.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

We made our way to Brussels that night and spent two days there, moving on upon the third day as far as Strasburg.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Again and again I had to ask him whether he would give in and sign the documents.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But remember, Akela is very old, and soon the day comes when he cannot kill his buck, and then he will be leader no more.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Their contents were usually to the same effect: would I and mine come to the writer’s country-place in England on such and such a date, by such and such a train, and stay twelve days and depart by such and such a train at the end of the specified time?
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

well I am Sir Tristram de Liones, that by the grace of God shall deliver this woful Isle of Servage.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But they who pose as friends of the people, and who for that reason either attempt to have agrarian laws passed, in order that the occupants may be driven out of their homes, or propose that money [255] loaned should be remitted to the borrowers, are undermining the foundations of the commonwealth: first of all, they are destroying harmony, which cannot exist when money is taken away from one party and bestowed upon another; and second, they do away with equity, which is utterly subverted, if the rights of property are not respected.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Travellers quoted by Ritter notice Chinars of great size and age at Shahrúd, near Bostam, at Meyomid, and at Mehr, west of Sabzawar, which last are said to date from the time of Naoshirwan (7th century).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

After, the squire pushed him in for that he stood as one in amaze, and shut the door on all that sorrow.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

Even the Greeks had their Zeus Apomuios ("Zeus the averter of flies"), and some Greek tribes worshipped Zeus Ipuktonos ("Zeus the slayer of vermin"), and Zeus Muiagros and Apomuios, and Apollo Smintheus ("the destroyer of mice").
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

I'll make haste, and supersede the design of his errand, if possible;—it would be a pity he should come before I had
— from The Politician Out-Witted by Samuel Low

From the farther clumps came the calling of the male quail, and around sounded the different murmurs of clucking, of twittering, of the ruffling of feathers: in a word, the divers voices of the small inhabitants of the plains.
— from Sielanka: An Idyll by Henryk Sienkiewicz

On the contrary, Don Gabriele Tontoli, an eye-witness of these disasters, assures us that the great man in this crisis, while the mob were battering and howling at the doors of the church, forgot nothing which was due to his exalted position, but climbed out nobly on the roof of the church and addressed the people in affectionate accents, seeking to draw them back to the duteous loyalty which they seemed for the moment to have forgotten.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

My love is languishing, and starved to death; And would you give me charity—in breath?
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

He elbowed and shouldered them down the aisle, and sent after them one of his own shoes.
— from Excuse Me! by Rupert Hughes