“All very well, my lord,” replied the earl, who ever treated Lord de Mowbray with a certain degree of ceremony, especially when the descendant of the crusaders affected the familiar.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Few recovered their senses so far as to attempt to resist Camillus, and those few fell where they stood; but most of them were slain as they lay helpless with wine and sleep.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

So appointing another day for further part of my accounts, I with Gibson to my bookseller, Martin, and there did receive my book I expected of China, a most excellent book with rare cuts; and there fell into discourse with him about the burning of Paul’s when the City was burned; his house being in the church-yard.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There are very few persons, however strongly and widely sympathetic, who are so constituted as to feel for the pleasures and pains of mankind generally a degree of sympathy at all commensurate with their concern for wife or children, or lover, or intimate friend: and if any training of the affections is at present possible which would materially alter this proportion in the general distribution of our sympathy, it scarcely seems that such a training is to be recommended as on the whole felicific.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Similarly in Wales, for the sake of ensuring good luck to the dairy, people used to give a branch of mistletoe to the first cow that gave birth to a calf after the first hour of the New Year; and in rural districts of Wales, where mistletoe abounded, there was always a profusion of it in the farmhouses.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Such verdicts assign the crown to Shakespeare and Molière, to Homer and Cervantes; we should not clamorously anticipate this favourable judgment for Bryant or Emerson, nor for the greatest of our own contemporaries.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

They bound and gagged him; then he was led to a dark cavern, at the foot of Mount Franklin, where the convicts had taken refuge.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

She drew away, and they sat silent and motionless while the brougham struggled through the congestion of carriages about the ferry-landing.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

But above all, the warm and joyful thoughts that they had about their own dwelling there, with such company, and that for ever and ever.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Afterwards, as a youth he became so proficient at school that friends proposed to provide for his support at the university (he was the eldest of nine children, and the family, while not indigent, was not rich), but he declined the offer because he could not conscientiously belong to the Church of England.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

This is brought about by holding the curds at temperatures favorable to the growth of the bacteria in the same.
— from Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

He took out his cigar case and turned from Laura to light a cigar.
— from Nightfall by Anthony Pryde

But letting passe this hole, from the which I gat out by stooping, let vs come on forward to the sweet liberties which I next beheld and that was a thicke wood of Chestnuts at the foote of the hill, which I supposed to be a soile for Pan or some Siluane God with their feeding heards and flockes, with a pleasant shade, vnder the which as I passed on, I came to an auncient bridge of marble with a very great and highe arche, vppon the which along winning to eyther sides of the walls, there were conuenient seats to rest vppon, which although they were welcome to my wearye bodie, yet I had more desire to go on forwarde, vppon which sides of the bridge, iust ouer the top of the arche, there was placed a porphirit table with a gorgeous border of curious workmanship, one table on the one side and an other on the other side, but that one the left side was of Ophite .
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna

Such, however, was the delay produced in the first instance by adverse weather of unusual violence and continuance and such the circumstances attending the final movements of the army, that the prospect, at one time so favorable, was not realized.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Madison

The claim was held to be baseless and treasonable; so far from being abandoned or weakened, it was enforced and asserted by the arms of the Volunteers, and in less than a century after the fall of Limerick the Renunciation Act of 1783 enacted that the people of Ireland should be “bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the parliament of that kingdom in all cases whatever.”
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

The soldiers, inspirited by the steadfastness which characterized and the fame which attended this victory, cried out that "nothing could resist their valor; now was the time to penetrate into the heart of Caledonia, and in a continued series of engagements at length to discover the utmost limits of Britain."
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Lacking literary culture and the fine art of discrimination, they left us only the bare materials of history instead of the historical structure itself.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

And as when wolves overcome a horse, and he, lying yet on his back, defends himself desperately with his hoofs, and they cover him completely and tear from him lumps of living flesh, so those wagons and the infantry were covered completely with a whirling mass of horses and riders.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Of this new cite, and thir frendly wallis, 20 Glaid wolx Troiane Acestes, and, but mair, Did mak proclame thar merkattis and thar fair; And all the hedismen gadderis and set down, Stabillis thar lawys and statutis for that town.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil