Of which state of things, if a tedium can at length enter your minds, and if ye are willing to resume the modes of acting practised by your forefathers, and formerly by yourselves, I submit to any punishment, if I do not rout and put to flight, and strip of their camp, those ravagers of our lands, and transfer from our gates and walls to their cities this terror of war, by which you are now thrown into consternation."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

If you had come a little earlier you would have seen the disgusting filth with which the floor was covered.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The black Fates joyed to see Their conflict, Ares laughed, Enyo yelled Horribly.
— from The Fall of Troy by Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century

♂.—Length about 11 mm.; black, except as follows: first abdominal segment strongly greenish; clypeus and labrum entirely yellow; mandibles fulvous apically (but base black); antennæ, except the first two joints, ferruginous beneath; hind tarsi, and apex of hind tibiæ, dusky red; hair of head and thorax ferruginous, paler below, no admixture of dark hairs; eyes reddish; mesothorax shining, but distinctly punctured; tegulæ clear ferruginous; wings dusky hyaline, nervures reddish fuscous; legs with pale hair, conspicuously plumose on hind tibiæ; abdomen with four broad dense ochraceous hair-bands, that on fourth segment broadly excavated in middle posteriorly, on fifth broadly interrupted; sixth segment with a small patch of fulvous hair on each side; apical part of abdomen dorsally, except for the bands and patches, with very dark fuscous hair.
— from Bees from British Guiana Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXVIII, Art. XX, pp. 685-690 by Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison) Cockerell

CHICK ( at length ) Enjoyed yo’se’f at dat dance at de Mawnin’ Star, did’n’ yo’?
— from Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life by Ernest Howard Culbertson

The 'Wimpole Theatre' opened in 1796 with 'The Secret,' with Lady Anne, Lady Catherine and Lady Elizabeth Yorke and Viscount Royston as the caste.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

" "But, sir, will it be RIGHT for me to carry in an account so greatly exceeding in amount what is my due?" "My lad," replied the captain, a little embarrassed, "You must not be so scrupulous in these trifling matters, or you will never make your way through the world at any rate you will never do for a sailor.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

"Ah, Talleyrand," exclaimed Napoleon, "if you had come a little earlier, you would have witnessed a very touching scene.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It was here that the old prince lived, comfortably and luxuriously enough, you may take my word for it.
— from The Princess Elopes by Harold MacGrath

If you had come a little earlier you would have seen the disgusting filth with which the floor was covered."
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain by Giacomo Casanova