ii., p. 139] The Emperor Augustus,—[This story is taken from Seneca, De Clementia, i. 9.]—being in Gaul, had certain information of a conspiracy L. Cinna was contriving against him; he therefore resolved to make him an example; and, to that end, sent to summon his friends to meet the next morning in counsel.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Debating together and comforting themselves after this manner, they pushed on their war measures as actively as ever; and the ten envoys sent to Samos by the Four Hundred, learning how matters stood while they were still at Delos, stayed quiet there.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Although through these earlier Shewings the Saviour's bodily pain is felt by Julian so fully in "mind" that she feels it indeed as if it were bodily anguish she bore, it is in this very experience that the shewing of Joy is made to her spirit.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The memory of the great Constantine, whom the British legions had given to the church and to the empire, suggested the singular motive of their third choice.
— 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 Government was dilatory, but finally concluded to re-enforce the fort, and to that end secured the steamer "Star of the West," and began the work of provisioning her for the voyage.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

Away to the east stretched the swampy brush-grown country that had bordered the line of progress for many miles.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

The splendid Marlbury breeding flock is as renowned as ever, and, to the eye, seems the same in every particular that it was in earlier times; but the animals which composed it on the occasion of the events gathered from the Justice are divided by many ovine generations from its members now.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

It was now as far to the interior as to the exterior surface, thus showing the shell of the earth to be at the pole at least 500 miles in thickness.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

“To every man one egg and to the excellent Schweppermann two.” Schweppermann was one of his generals, {26} and it seems probable that he was a Nuremberg citizen.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam