VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to Brutus PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius CALPHURNIA, wife to Caesar PORTIA, wife to Brutus The Ghost of Caesar Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

80 Asinius Pollio is a name which stands high in Roman literature; according to the remark of Alexandre, “Vir magnus fuit, prono tamen ad obtrectandum ingenio, quod arguunt ejus cum Cicerone simultates,” Lemaire, i. 30.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

benn bēn I. f. (±) prayer, request , Lk ; AO, 36b CP: compulsory service , LL 447 (v. 2·418, Fron.).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Thence to the Exchange for something for my wife, and then home and to the office, and then home to our flageolet, and so to bed, being mightily troubled in mind at the liberty I give myself of going to plays upon pretence of the weakness of my eyes, that cannot continue so long together at work at my office, but I must remedy it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Come, come,” said La Ramee, “that’s not a bad idea.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

: la hwure , at least, S. Laas , sb. snare, C, C3; see Las .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

he informed that they had more Corn collected for us than our Canoes Could Carry Six load of which he brought down.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

From somewhere in the city came sounds like the distant beating of drums, and beyond, far beyond, a vague muttering, now growing, swelling, rumbling in the distance like the pounding of surf upon the rocks, now like the surf again, receding, growling, menacing.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

When I pass to and fro, different latitudes, different seasons, beholding the crowds of the great cities, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore—when I mix with these interminable swarms of alert, turbulent, good-natured, independent citizens, mechanics, clerks, young persons—at the idea of this mass of men, so fresh and free, so loving and so proud, a singular awe falls upon me.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

[Colonel Chabert.] SPENCER (Lord), about 1830, at Balthazar Claes's sale, bought some magnificent wainscoting that had been carved by Van Huysum, as well as the portrait of President Van Claes, a Fleming of the sixteenth century,—family treasures which the father of Mesdames de Solis and Pierquin was obliged to give up.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

“And this is a Christian country!” said Lord Fotheringay solemnly, after a pause of considerable duration.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I, II and III: Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

The second case contains several lovely specimens.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen

To make it a fitting centennial celebration, St. Louis voted Five Million Dollars in bonds; there was a stock subscription of Five Million Dollars; the Government appropriated Five Million Dollars; and the State of Missouri donated One Million Dollars, making a total of the exact sum that was originally paid for a territory, out of which fourteen states and two territories have since been carved, that now contain the homes of 18,222,500 people, nearly a fifth of the 92,972,267 population of the United States, a population that in 1804 was but 6,081,040.
— from Colorado—The Bright Romance of American History by F. C. Grable

This was another mortal blow for Andrew, who assumed that the stranger could carry so large a sum about him for no other purpose than to purchase possession of the beloved object.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Catholic catechism says: " L'église est la société de fidèles établie par notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, répandue sur toute la terre et soumise à l'autorité des pasteurs légitimes, principalement notre Saint Père—le Pape ," meaning by " pasteurs légitimes " a human institution, which has the Pope at its head and which is composed of certain persons who are connected among themselves by a certain organization.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Though the fear of being dethroned obstructed his following the dictates of his pity, yet he in some measure moderated the rigour of Haroun Alraschid’s orders, causing coarse sacks, like smocks with sleeves, to be made of horse-hair, for Ganem’s mother, and his sister Alcolomb, or Ravisher of Hearts.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous