Poenitet me nunc mei consilii, quod non statim ab initio, … eiecerim cuncta disticha diversis a sloco vulgari metris composita.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The steel-clad champion death drops all around As glaciers water.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Before the removal of Wright's corps from our right, after dark on the 31st, the two lines, Federal and Confederate, were so close together at that point that either side could detect directly any movement made by the other.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I had no opportunity of seeing Madame Lalande closely during daylight; and, at her musical soiree, my silly weakness in refusing the aid of glasses effectually prevented me from making a discovery of her age.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The first man who leaped out when the lifeboat touched the pier was the coxswain, dripping, dirty, and dishevelled.
— from The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

What its name was, I no longer recollect, but that the celebrated dancers Duport , and mesdames Bigottini and Petit Aimée , whom Count Palffy had sent for from Paris, danced in it.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

I am no drinker, as we know, but when the womenfolk and youngsters have gone home we can drop down across to the Quiet Woman, and strike up a ballet in front of the married folks' door.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

These brave demi-brigades moved onwards, singing the chant du départ , and drove Lusignan back by the road which Rey was coming up with the reserve.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

of those who were not there, {177} we should chance to forget some who may fancy themselves quite as worthy of having their presence recorded, and their court dresses described, as those who do figure in this Court Calendar of Nature.
— from Mirror of the Months by P. G. (Peter George) Patmore

Soldiers in barracks with chronic digestive disturbances, and even with dysentery, have shown no higher percentage of typhoid during an epidemic than others.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

The constable had already heard that Charlot de Dueilly and other captains were in great force toward Dammartin: therefore he made the king and his army retreat, in order of battle toward Paris, ordering a sufficient number of his ablest combatants to his rear, to prevent the enemy from giving them any disturbance.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet