He served his first campaign while yet a youth, when Tarquin, the exiled King of Rome, after many battles and defeats, staked all upon one last throw, and assembled an army to attack Rome.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

And demon pipes that wail— In long, outlandish garments, Torn, though of antique worth, With Druid beards and Druid spears, As a resurrected race appears Out of an elder earth.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

They got scorched out by and by, and drearily set about getting breakfast.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

To another, the exclusion of the House of Representatives, whose numbers alone could be a due security against corruption and partiality in the exercise of such a power, is equally obnoxious.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

That so soon as informed of it, Captain Amasa Delano used all his authority, and, in particular with his own hand, struck down Martinez Gola, who, having found a razor in the pocket of an old jacket of his, which one of the shackled negroes had on, was aiming it at the negro's throat; that the noble Captain Amasa Delano also wrenched from the hand of Bartholomew Barlo a dagger, secreted at the time of the massacre of the whites, with which he was in the act of stabbing a shackled negro, who, the same day, with another negro, had thrown him down and jumped upon him; * * *—that, for all the events, befalling through so long a time, during which the ship was in the hands of the negro Babo, he cannot here give account; but that, what he has said is the most substantial of what occurs to him at present, and is the truth under the oath which he has taken; which declaration he affirmed and ratified, after hearing it read to him.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

I 'd rather not say what might be related Of her exploits, for this were ticklish ground; Besides there might be falsehood in what 's stated: Her late performance had been a dead set At Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

For between a despotic state and a hand-mill there is, to be sure, no similarity; but there is a similarity in the rules according to which we reflect upon these two things and their 250 causality.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

They seemed to be a different species, and he looked at them and they at him with distrust and hostility.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Or the bouillon may be followed by a dish such as sweetbreads and mushrooms, or chicken pâtés, or broiled chicken (a half of a chicken for each guest) or squab, with salad such as whole tomatoes filled with celery.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Had his left arm amputated after the battle, and d. shortly after.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

She left him, and thereafter with Wolverstone, leaning upon the rail, he watched the approach of that boat, manned by a dozen sailors, and commanded by a scarlet figure seated stiffly in the stern sheets.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Marcelline's old eyes, nearly as bright and dark still as Jeanne's own, had a half-mischievous look in them as she replied, solemnly shaking her head, "I know, Mademoiselle, and that is all I can say.
— from The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance by Mrs. Molesworth

It has been a declaratory statute, although, perhaps, every man who was initiated could not read and write, yet I believe every man who could read and write was initiated, these arts being taught to the initiated only in very early times.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

When the metal is to be drawn tapering on two opposite sides, it should be held to the proper angle on the anvil to establish the taper desired on the bottom, while the hammer blows are delivered so as to form a similar taper on the upper side.
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen

And love well stored) Shall brave all danger, scorn all fear, The roaring wind, the raging sea, In hopes, on shore, To be once more Safe moored with thee.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The stuff dug up by our friends was so nuggety that many lumps remained in the upper box, where they were detained by their weight, while the lighter stuff passed through, and the smaller lumps were held by a deeper slat at the further end of the bottom of the box.
— from Klondike Nuggets, and How Two Boys Secured Them by Edward Sylvester Ellis

As soon as the ship was secured, I went ashore, accompanied by Mr Banks and Dr Solander, and we were met upon the beach by some Indians, who carried us immediately to a man, who, they said, was their king.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

The boy was carried home in what was thought to be a dying state, and although his fine constitution had enabled him to pull through the long and dangerous illness, he had remained permanently crippled, unable to do more than trail himself painfully from room to room, or occasionally in warm weather to take a little very gentle exercise on the back of a quiet and well-trained horse, which would be content to pace sedately without prancing or curvetting.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green

And didn’t have to work or anything, I’d go and buy a dimun’ stud and ring And open up a swell hotel somewhere And be head clerk myself, and have my hair All curled and fixed like Morton’s is, and fling On agony as though I’d be a king And had a throne behind the counter there.
— from Thrills of a Bell Boy by Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth) Kiser