Observing the excitement in the camp, and wishing to divert the attention both of his own men and of those in the city from what was going on, the king ordered an advance; and delivered an attack upon the gates on the other side of the town, called the Persian gates.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

To lure the demon out of the body of her offspring, she offers a sacrifice of food; and while the devil is bolting it, she attaches iron rings and small bells to her child’s ankles and hangs iron chains round his neck.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

If Max rose to greater heights of fame it would be because of his own unaided efforts.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Military France is everywhere full of sour inflammatory humour, which exhales itself fuliginously, this way or that: a whole continent of smoking flax; which, blown on here or there by any angry wind, might so easily start into a blaze, into a continent of fire!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail, Tom will make them weep and wail; For, with throwing thus my head,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Hence the West country proverb— “A woman, a whelp, and a walnut tree, The more you BASH ’em, the better they be.” BAT, “on his own BAT ,” on his own account.—
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Thus did the affection of Allworthy for his nephew betray the superior understanding to be triumphed over by the inferior; and thus is the prudence of the best of heads often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

109 For a man inspired by Love needs not Ares to help him when he goes out as a warrior against the enemy, but at the bidding of his own god is 'ready' for his friend 'to go through fire and water and whirlwinds.'
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

we Continue building our houses of the Streightest & _____ logs, Sent out 2 men to Split timber to Covet the Cabins, and I am glad to find the timber Splits butifully, and of any width H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Such a pre-eminence could not be enjoyed without exciting the malevolence of envy and detraction, in the propagation of which none were so industrious as the brethren of his own order, who had, like him, made a descent upon this island, and could not, without repining, see the whole harvest in the hands of one man, who, with equal art and discretion, avoided all intercourse with their society.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In 1785 he essayed the crossing of the English Channel in a balloon of his own design, in which he sought to combine the principles of the gas and hot-air balloons.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

Now I suppose you would turn your back on him, or on me, because I am partly German.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Even the enraptured travellers, who stood gazing from the summit of Mont Blanc, were not more delighted than the enthusiastic trio who looked from the brow of Hambleton on that memorable morning.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 by Various

Such a thing as a horse I suppose had never been seen here, although I would gladly have bought or hired one, for I was very weary of our delay.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

For tribulation seemeth generally to signify nothing else but some kind of grief, either pain of the body or heaviness of the mind.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

This—the sexual relation —on a physical basis, shows, on its one side, subjectivity remaining in an instinctive and emotional harmony of moral life and love, and not pushing these tendencies to an extreme universal phase, in purposes political, scientific or artistic; and on the other, shows an active half, where the individual is the vehicle of a struggle of universal and objective interests with the given conditions (both of his own existence and of that of the external world), carrying out these universal principles into a unity with the world which is his own work.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When this had been done, the young men sullen, sheepish, and silent, and viewing with awe the still body of Hobart on the ground, I looked round upon the circle till I found the man I wanted.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

I suppose she had lived thus long upon the hopes, which from the execution of Sejanus she had conceived; but, feeling afterwards no relaxation of cruelty, death grew her choice: unless she were bereaved of nourishment, and her decease feigned to have been of her own seeking.
— from The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus