Thirdly, there are ambassadors of foreign states; these are to be honourably received by the generals and commanders, and placed under the care of the Prytanes and of the persons with whom they are lodged.
— from Laws by Plato

Hermann waited for the next deal, took a card and placed upon it his forty-seven thousand roubles, together with his winnings of the previous evening.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Since, then, we are now gotten clear of such great misfortunes, and are only accountable to one another, [which form of government affords us the best assurance of our present concord, and promises us the best security from evil designs, and will be most for our own glory in settling the city in good order,] you ought, every one of you in particular, to make provision for his own, and in general for the public utility: or, on the contrary, they may declare their dissent to such things as have been proposed, and this without any hazard of danger to come upon them, because they have now no lord set over them, who, without fear of punishment, could do mischief to the city, and had an uncontrollable power to take off those that freely declared their opinions.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

They will do anything to escape it,—even tolerate bad companions, and put up with the feeling of constraint which all society involves, in this case a very burdensome one.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

As Jos came creaking and puffing up the final stairs, and was speechless when he got to the landing, and began to wipe his face and then to look for No. 92, the room where he was directed to seek for the person he wanted, the door of the opposite chamber, No. 90, was open, and a student, in jack-boots and a dirty schlafrock, was lying on the bed smoking a long pipe; whilst another student in long yellow hair and a braided coat, exceeding smart and dirty too, was actually on his knees at No. 92, bawling through the keyhole supplications to the person within.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

‘How can I assist you, child?’ said Ralph, rising from his chair, and pacing up and down the room in his old attitude.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Then we fell to weeping abundantly, but at the last I roused up my company, and propped up our ship and struck fire.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

But Catherine did not know her own advantages—did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Because he should have swallowed me too; and when I had been in his belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he should never have left, till he cast bells, steeple, church and parish up again.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Pompeius then became sole consul, and proceeded, under threat of his army, {120} to introduce a series of laws almost openly aimed at Cæsar.
— from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

The wounded man was lifted carefully and placed upon the mattress.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

They burned the bridges over the Chickahominy, destroyed three large trains of provisions in the rear of Lee's army, drove in the Rebel pickets to within two miles of Richmond, and have lost only one lieutenant and thirty men, having captured and paroled upwards of three hundred prisoners.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

If these long-horned Spanish cattle chased a person up a tree they would lie under the tree all day on guard.
— from A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager

The Chinese are perhaps unusually affected by climatic conditions.
— from The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu by Qi Wu

The waking world seemed to breathe again, and from every side there came a chorus of quick exclamations; but without turning to note who made them, nor what they signified, I walked back to the carriage, and picked up my cigar.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

An heiress and more so if she is an only child, is generally a very disagreeable person, headstrong, capricious, and puffed up with her own importance.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

The loaded train hurtled down the mountain, failed to make a bridge on a curve, and piled up in a gulch.
— from The Pinos Altos Story by Dorothy Watson

Had Marshall dealt with this subject after the fashion of his greatest opinions he must also have considered and passed upon certain serious suggestions arising out of the arrangements of our own constitutions and the exigencies of the different departments.
— from John Marshall by James Bradley Thayer