Note: M. Guizot states, that the acts of Tarachus and his companion contain nothing that appears dictated by violent feelings, (sentiment outre.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I certainly could not tell him, nor did he expect me to—his conversation being uniformly answered by himself.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

So Cambyses hearing this very readily sent to Samos to ask Polycrates to send a naval force with him against Egypt: and Polycrates selected of the citizens those whom he most suspected of desiring to rise against him and sent them away in forty triremes, charging Cambyses not to send them back. 45.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

According to Haywood, an aged Cherokee chief, named the Little Cornplanter (Little Carpenter?), stated in 1772 that the Shawano had removed from the Savannah river a long time before in consequence of a disastrous war with several neighboring tribes, and had settled upon the Cumberland, by permission of his people.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Should a crow come near the house, and caw in its usual rapid raucous tones, it means that calamity is impending.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

If it be so they cannot come near to dally, have not that opportunity, familiarity, or acquaintance to confer and talk together; yet if they be in presence, their eye will betray them:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, And learn me how to lose a winning match, Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For if anyone will make himself acquainted with the writings of Aristotle and Theophrastus, these will appear to him to consist of commentaries on the Nature-lore [physiology] 196 of Hippocrates—according to which the principles of heat, cold, dryness and moisture act upon and are acted upon by one another, the hot principle being the most active, and the cold coming next to it in power; all this was stated in the first place by Hippocrates and secondly by Aristotle.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The next minute she had swept down the stairs—and not until she reached the first floor did it suddenly occur to her that she had gone up into the attic to find a white wool shawl in the cedar chest near the east window.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

That is why he comes and goes and the carabinieri can never trace him.
— from The Net by Rex Beach

The fellow is as long-headed and quick-witted as any one I know; he has managed to hoodwink you, but from the first I saw through him, and knew him to be a designing—” “Sir,” broke in Frithiof, turning to Mr. Boniface—his bewildered consternation changing now to passionate earnestness—“this is more than I can endure.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

"Then why speak of cabriolets in this connection?" "Canst not take the hint?"
— from The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Maturin Murray Ballou

As different are they as the current of our individual lives; now quietly gliding in, but not off, the racket on either side; now confidently asserting themselves by a semi-turbulent merriness; now all babble and bubble and surface; now dark, deep, and masterful through hidden force under a calm countenance; now tearing, and dashing, and running away with quickly scattered impulse.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

The right to become States was one which Congress could not take from the old Territories.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

A short distance on the following morning brought us to some Indian lodges which belonged to an old Chipewyan chief named the Sun and his family consisting of five hunters, their wives and children.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Cairns could not think in this furious stress.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

When the inquest was over, and the jurymen were leaving the house along with the rest of the crowd, Clarice noticed the girl again.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

Here the construction corresponds not to the perception, which is, of the pupil's talents.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown