Now the Dionysos who is said to have been born of Semele the daughter of Cadmos, was born about sixteen hundred years before my time, and Heracles who was the son of Alcmene, about nine hundred years, and that Pan who was born of Penelope, for of her and of Hermes Pan is said by the Hellenes to have been born, came into being later than the wars of Troy, about eight hundred years before my time.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Then, when he saw dawn breaking over beach and sea, he yoked his horses to his chariot, and bound the body of Hector behind it that he might drag it about.
— from The Iliad by Homer

This then I lay upon you, calling upon the gods of the royal house to witness it,—upon you and most of all upon those of the Achaemenidai who are present here,—that ye do not permit the return of the chief power to the Medes, but that if they have acquired it by craft, by craft they be deprived of it by you, or if they have conquered it by any kind of force, by force and by a strong hand ye recover it.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of sumach bushes and said: “Here you are!
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

“And how many brothers and sisters have you got?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But then she reflected on the danger of doing so, and other thoughts came into her head; so she went up to the bed and said: “Have you ever seen the Devil?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

As a beverage, its use probably dates back about six hundred years.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“An that be all,” said he, “you shan't go to the bilboes this bout.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The books are safer here you see for the present, for Stephen lives alone, and is a good deal away, for he edits a paper at Mowbray, and that must be looked after.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Suppose you had to go without all these things unless your father and mother or brothers and sisters helped you to make them.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

It was built about six hundred years ago, by Shah Shem Ghuzan , (the successor of Shah Mahomed Khodabendeh , whose tomb has been described at Sultaniéh ,) but it has been destroyed by an earthquake within thirty years.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

Scipio's face grew grave at these words, and he asked with commanding brevity and sharpness: "Has your sister black hair and is she taller than you are, and did she wear a golden fillet in the procession?
— from The Sisters — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

The captain walked over to the bishop, and said: "Here, your Reverence, the ship has to stop.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"And how many brothers and sisters have you?"
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

[5481] 10 For my good Lord, she is so idely kingd, Her scepter so fantastically borne, So guided by a shallow humorous youth, That feare attends her not.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

“And how many brothers and sisters have you?”
— from The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

I can scarcely make it out, the Ru—ru—something of Omar Kay—y—Well, anyway it's a book, and she hopes you will read Emerson's 'Essay on Friendship' over before you are married, because it's a helpful utterance, and adjusts the mind to mutual conditions."
— from Clover by Susan Coolidge

"Dear mother, I wrote all this a week ago, and when I look over it I think I'm writing stuff and nonsense; but just now I feel as if I was sitting with you before Jacob the blacksmith's house at the well, and people passing by and saying, 'Ha' ye good counsel?'
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach