But Hiketes who had obtained his post of commander-in-chief with a view, not to the liberation of Syracuse, but the establishment of himself as despot there, had already had secret negotiations with the Carthaginians, though in public he commended the Syracusans, and sent ambassadors of his own with the rest to Peloponnesus: not that he wished that any assistance should come thence, but, in case the Corinthians, as was probable, should refuse their help because of the disturbed state of Greece, he hoped that he should more easily be able to bring matters round to suit the Carthaginian interest, and to use them as allies either against the Syracusan citizens, or against their despot.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

When the breeze is fresh and the sea choppy, the boat starts in to trawl.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Pelleas and Ettarre King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall at old Caerleon, the high doors Were softly sundered, and through these a youth, Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fields Past, and the sunshine came along with him. 'Make me thy knight, because I know, Sir King, All that belongs to knighthood, and I love.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Suppose he annexed the same consciousness to different souls, | should we, as WE realize OURSELVES, be any the worse for that fact?
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

The popular almanac which chiefly wields sway in Amoy and the surrounding country, regularly stigmatises a certain number of days as tîng-sng jít : 'days of reduplication of death,' because encoffining or burying a dead person on such a day will entail another loss in the family shortly afterwards.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until they were naked, and then continued the frolic far away up the shoal water of the bar, against the stiff current, which latter tripped their legs from under them from time to time and greatly increased the fun.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The reigning emperor, though he had usurped the sceptre by treason and murder, immediately assumed the sacred character of vicegerent of the Deity.
— 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

The explorers had been much struck with the marks of a more advanced civilization than that existing in the Antilles, with the superiority of the architecture, the skilful cultivation of the land, the fine texture of the cotton garments, and the delicacy of finish of the golden ornaments worn by the Indians.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

"He's one of the rising men, Graeme, one of the cleverest they ever had at the Staff College, they tell me; did well, too at last cold weather manoeuvres."
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor,—curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin,—curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

The officers present are Generals Hunter and Dyer and two staff captains.
— from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend

At the beginning of the century, delicate shafts of marble, highly polished, were employed rather freely, but as these seldom carried weight, and were mainly ornamental in character, they were gradually eliminated, yet, without sacrificing any of the beauty of structure since combinations of light and shade were secured by the composition of various forms, and the use of delicately rounded mouldings alternated with hollows, so as to produce forcible effects in high light and deep shadow.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The residue, heated a little above its melting-point, and then slowly cooled, is amorphous, of a lig
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

And then she caught Dorothy and made her dance too.
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose

Thus many species of Cerceris and the splendid Chrysidæ or golden wasps feed upon insects of their own order.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

It does not need you or anybody else to convince me I am the superarchangelic creature I was reported to you.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins