Right glad were all the Romans Who, in that hour of dread, Against great odds bare up the war Around Valerius dead, When from the south the cheering Rose with a mighty swell; "Herminius comes, Herminius, Who kept the bridge so well!" XXVII Mamilius spied Herminius, And dashed across the way.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Right , a. True; real; genuine. Obs. or arch.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

59 From his dream of pride, Alexius was awakened by the siege of Zara, and the rapid advances of the Latins; as soon as he saw the danger was real, he thought it inevitable, and his vain presumption was lost in abject despondency and despair.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

All the rules of rhetoric are mere waste of words to those who do not know how to use them for their own purposes.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For, as you truly observe, there are Cretans of Argive descent; and the race of Cretans which has the highest character at the present day is the Gortynian, and this has come from Gortys in the Peloponnesus.
— from Laws by Plato

A group of my American students, garbed in Hindu ceremonial clothes, chanted the ancient hymns as an offering was made of flowers, water, and fire-symbols of the bodily elements and their release in the Infinite Source.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Capitulation of Mantua, by Wurmser, with 13,000 men (and 6000 in hospital), but he, his staff, and 200 cavalry allowed to return.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Could it be possible that the will had set things right at last and that Richard and Ada were going to be rich?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He therefore crossed the river with a part of his army and entered Sogdiana, leaving Polysperchon, Attalus, Gorgias, and Meleager there among the Bactrians, with instructions to guard the land, to prevent the barbarians of that region from making any revolutionary change, and to reduce those who had already rebelled.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
— from Five Pebbles from the Brook by George Bethune English

Godfrey must be back in an hour or so; I believe he was only going to lunch at the Rabys.
— from Waynflete by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

deputation from the Hebrew community, headed by their Ecclesiastical Chief, and the representatives of their schools and charitable institutions, waited on Sir Moses to report on the state of their Synagogues, &c. Sir Moses, with his usual liberality, contributed towards the funds of all their charities.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Wood edited Vanity Fair , and all the rest contributed to it.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

It is true that there was small pox in the City, and among the prisoners at Danville; but that any consideration for our safety should have led them to order general inoculation is not among the reasonable inferences.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

After giving my order to one of the clerks I immediately turned my attention to renewing my acquaintance with Tabby, the store cat.
— from Stories Worth Rereading by Various

The Inneskilling Fusiliers and the Somersets at Tientsin retain their traditional territorial peculiarities.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

Sister Anne turned resolutely to the table.
— from Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

We have seen in the last section, what classes of ideas may be conveyed by art, and we have been able so far to appreciate their relative worth as to see, that from the list, as it is to be § 1.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

The latter repudiated the title, because they did not acknowledge him as their standard of belief, though they loved and reverenced his character, and stood by him as the representative of liberty of conscience.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child