Gaza has been already mentioned in a Note 3610 to C. 12, p. 423.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

20 For instance, if there is to be paralysis of the right arm, the pin is stuck into the right arm of the image; if madness is to result, it is driven into the head, and so on, appropriate mantras being chanted over the image, which is buried at midnight in a neighbouring cremation ground.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

JOHNNY has an evident moment of hesitation, and before it is over MR MARCH comes in again, followed by a man in a neat suit of plain clothes.
— from Plays : Fifth Series by John Galsworthy

Thither, I trust, my own children have gone before me, for I also have been a mother; I am no longer so," she added, in a faltering tone, "and your son will have all my care.
— from Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I conceived great designs; but fate 'has been against me; I am no longer a conqueror, nor can I be one.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

There was the old gentleman of seventy years of age, who had been a mayor in a north-country manufacturing town, and who had forged and defrauded his nieces out of some £360,000.
— from Millbank Penitentiary: An Experiment in Reformation by Arthur Griffiths

boy, a man is a narrow, calloused creature until he has been shook up a few times by love affairs.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

It had been a momentary impulse, and now the impulse had died away.
— from The Call of the Blood by Robert Hichens

Philopoemen, who was born at Megalopolis in Arcadia (not far from the spot from which old Evander started for Italy), during the first Punic war, just before Hamilcar appeared upon the scene, raised himself to fame, first by improving the armor and drill of the Achćan soldiers, when he became chief of the ancient league, and then by his prowess at the battle of Mantinea, in the year 207, when Sparta was defeated.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

At 6.30 A.M. weighed, with a light breeze from the southward, and steered to pass between the Bird and Macarthur Islands; at noon abreast of the latter; P.M., after passing Hannibal Isles, hauled in for the shore, for the purpose of picking up the whaleboat.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

She shall have new gloves, and bonnet, and mantle, and boots, and money in a new purse.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon