Then they rowed with all the ships up the river, until they came in sight of each other, and then King Inge turned off from the river current under the island.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I suppose they have, but they just go on calmly in spite of everything.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

None but those who have experienced it can form an idea of the delicious throng of sensations which rush into an American’s bosom, when he first comes in sight of Europe.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

82 Cum igitur statuisset opus esse ad eam rem constituendam pecunia, Alexandream se proficisci velle dixit remque integram ad reditum suum iussit esse, isque celeriter ad Ptolomaeum, suum hospitem, venit, qui tum regnabat alter post Alexandream conditam.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rain still continuing I set out early and proceeded on as fast as possible.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Soon after they saw the sails of Erling's fleet, and both fleets came in sight of each other.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

As long as the whole, or the greater part of the gold which the first adventurers imported into Europe was got by so very easy a method as the plundering of the defenceless natives, it was not perhaps very difficult to pay even this heavy tax; but when the natives were once fairly stript of all that they had, which, in St. Domingo, and in all the other countries discovered by Columbus, was done completely in six or eight years, and when, in order to find more, it had become necessary to dig for it in the mines, there was no longer any possibility of paying this tax.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

At Long Branch the bulk of the day, stopt at a good hotel, took all very leisurely, had an excellent dinner, and then drove for over two hours about the place, especially Ocean avenue, the finest drive one can imagine, seven or eight miles right along the beach.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Of course, in speaking of experiences, I do not refer to the ordinary external events of life, but to those fatalities and convulsions which occur in the course of the most solitary and quiet life which has some leisure and glows with the passion for thinking.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They little thought that this was the last convention they would hold for five years, that a long and terrible war would cast its shadow over every household before they met again, that differences would arise in their own ranks, and that never more would they come together in the old, fraternal spirit that 213 had bound them so closely and given them strength to bear the innumerable hardships which so largely had been their portion.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

[Pg 22] The familiar term, 'God could not be everywhere so He made mothers' has its modern scientific application, as no amount of education and care given to children in school or elsewhere outside the home can take the place of mothering in the home.
— from The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson

The church is seldom open, except on its festival (Jan. 20), and during its station in Lent.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

The groans of the dying in the gloaming, the uncertainty as well as the unexpectedness of the attack, frightened them so much that they fled in confusion, in spite of every attempt on the part of Fowlis, who was in front in charge of the spoil and its guard, to stop them.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

This unhappy youth, who, while he was at the university, discovered the finest fancy and the soundest understanding, either from a malignant and inveterate species of scrofula, with which he had been periodically tortured from his earliest infancy, or from too close an application to study, fell very early in life into a state of bodily infirmity and mental langor, which terminated in the month of December, 1777, in a total derangement of his faculties; and he has now continued, in spite of every endeavor to restore him, a perfect idiot for more than twenty years.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

The Grecians derive their own origin from unsettled tribes, whose frequent migrations are a proof of the rude and infant state of their communities; and whose warlike exploits, so much celebrated in story, only exhibit the struggles with which they disputed the possession of a country they afterwards, by their talent for fable, by their arts, and their policy, rendered so famous in the history of mankind.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson

She had come by a pathway from her home, and the two paths met just as we came in sight of each other.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

In this way, Strauss's art, one of the most literary and descriptive in existence, is strongly distinguished from others of the same kind by the solidarity of its musical fabric, in which one feels the true musician—a musician brought up on the great masters, and a classic in spite of everything.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

I shall live very comfortably in Switzerland or England or anywhere else that shall please me, and I hope y
— from The Black Ghost of the Highway by Gertrude Linnell

Then I resolved in my mind never to comply with your command, in spite of everything.
— from Fires of St. John: A Drama in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann