In the north of Byzacium, near the Bagrada and the confines of Numidia.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Saint-Antoine is a-foot: "Bread and the Constitution of Ninety-three," so sounds it; so stands it written with chalk on the hats of men.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In this country, lying between the rivers Cophen and Indus, which was traversed by Alexander, the city of Nysa 621 is said to be situated.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

[ The three gods in the Koran (c. 4, p. 81, c. 5, p. 92) are obviously directed against our Catholic mystery: but the Arabic commentators understand them of the Father, the Son, and the Virgin Mary, an heretical Trinity, maintained, as it is said, by some Barbarians at the Council of Nice, (Eutych.
— 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 marriage of Edwin, king of Northumbria, and the Kentish princess, Ethelberg, brings about the conversion of Northumbria [pg xxv] through the preaching of Paulinus.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The Black Pearl A violent ringing of the bell awakened the concierge of number nine, avenue Hoche.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

But as the charm of novelty went off, I grew more fastidious; and besides, I discovered that she was of a peevish temper.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Perhaps Nature sported or blundered, and this combination ought not to have existed; I only know it did exist.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But as the changes of neurosis are never absolutely discontinuous, so must the successive psychoses shade gradually into each other, although their rate of change may be much faster at one moment than at the next.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The building of the North British and Mercantile Assurance Company, the Savings Bank at the corner of Newgate Street, and the Empire Theatre were wrecked.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

Its other 143 appendages were so abundant and satisfying that we felt the absence of dead or wounded game to be a trifling circumstance of no account.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

But at the commencement of November things were so far advanced that I was in the unusual position of being secretly courted by my own wife!—I reciprocating her attentions with equal secrecy!
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

The right branch, which earned commonly about two thirds of the water, proceeds by a tortuous course of nearly forty miles, in a direction a very little west of south, to its junction with the Dizful stream, which takes place about two miles north of the little town of Bandi-kir.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

The Prussian general’s great hope was that he might be able to cut off Napoleon’s communications with France, but he was far too cumbersome in his movements to catch so nimble an adversary.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

c. 55.; but, assuming the correctness of Nobbs' statement, is it generally known that this tax originated in the year, and under the circumstances, above recorded?
— from Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The ditch passed, he perceived a low wall, which had been hidden from his view by a thick copse of nopals and wild apricot trees.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, October 1850 by Various

In 1805, when the domains of the Order at Heitersheim were secularised and incorporated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Baron de Ferrette was indemnified by a pension of 60,000 livres for life and made Minister of Baden at the Court of Napoleon I., and thereafter at that of Louis XVIII.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

Early in the spring, Captain Farragut, with a fleet of forty-four vessels, carrying eight thousand troops under General Butler, attempted the capture of New Orleans, which commands the mouth of the river.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

Mr. Hanbury announces that he was informed by the Eskimo of Ogden bay that caribou are found on Kent peninsula, at Cape Barrow, and near the coast of Victoria Land, throughout the winter, but that none remained during that season between Cape Barrow and the Coppermine or near Ogden bay.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers