Then, with the regularity which they had observed on the march, he draws the entire army in a long column around the enemies' camp, and directs that, when the signal was given, they should all raise a shout; and that on the shout being raised, each man should throw up a trench before his post, and fix his palisade.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

A voice which did not belong to Ma’am Bougon replied:— “Excuse me, sir—” It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, roughened with brandy and liquor.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The 2nd, Thomas Bokerel, Ralph Eiland; mayor, Serle Mercer.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The second morning after commencing the use of your medicines I awoke refreshed in body and mind, and this experience has been repeated every morning since.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

“They’re big rascals, every mother’s son of them; and I’d give my right hand to be allowed to stop, if I thought that they’d be doing you any mischief; but I don’t think they’ll dare to work you harm.
— from The Gilpins and their Fortunes: A Story of Early Days in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston

“I might,” said Stella, calmly, “if I thought any one would listen to me; but I fear you would all run away, except Ladybird; she, I believe, really enjoys my songs.”
— from The Staying Guest by Carolyn Wells

SEE Bergman, Ray. EVERETT, MILLARD S. The hygiene of marriage; a detailed consideration of sex and marriage.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

As he did so, he stumbled against a small boy, running even more swiftly in the same direction.
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

December the 5th, they divided the plunder which had been reserved, each man's share of which amounted to 328 pieces of eight.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

They loomed through the river fog like giants—rank behind rank, each man stiff and upright and silent in his saddle—as it were a vale full of mounted ghosts awaiting the dreadful trumpet, and in my terror I forgot to tremble at the nearness of our escape (for we had all but blundered into them).
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

She answers with low voice, She longs for death alone—death is her choice; Death is the king who never did think scorn, But rescues every meanest soul to sorrow born.
— from How Lisa Loved the King by George Eliot

Arbutus, fragrant with its clean, wholesome odors, gave forth its thousand dewy pink blossoms, and the trailing Linnea borealis hung its pendent twin bells round every mossy stump and old rock damp with green forest mould.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe