Right so came in Sir Persides and Sir Tristram and so they did fare that they put the King of Northgalis aback.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Sinope lies on the right-hand shore of the Pontus as one sails to Phasis, and is built upon a peninsula jutting out into the sea: it is on the neck of this peninsula, connecting it with Asia, which is not more than two stades wide, that the city is so placed as to entirely close 329 it up from sea to sea; the rest of the peninsula stretches out into the open sea,—a piece of flat land from which the town is easily accessible, but surrounded by a steep coast offering very bad harbourage, and having exceedingly few spots admitting of disembarkation.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country; he seldom exercises each selected character in some peculiar and fitting manner; he feeds a long and a short beaked pigeon on the same food; he does not exercise a long-backed or long-legged quadruped in any peculiar manner; he exposes sheep with long and short wool to the same climate.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The liver was cut in small pieces and eaten raw, with salt, the women and children getting their share.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I had an hour's painful struggle with myself to settle the course I should pursue, and decided not to allow the step I had taken in regard to her to be looked upon as an ill-considered and excusable vagary.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The Ettu ceremony is similarly performed at any time after the third day, and is attended with a curious ritual.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The text of the second edition is a reprint of the first edition except for a few minor corrections in style, punctuation, and spelling, which have been revised to conform to current American usage.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

I might here, before I take my leave of the Salmon , tell you, that there is more then one sort of them, as namely, a Tecon , and another called in some places a Samlet , or by some, a Skegger :
— from The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton

Before entering upon the commercial statistics of Louisville, it may be well to consider its social position, and to endeavor to convey some idea of the advantages offered by this city as a place of residence, aside from its character as a commercial emporium.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

Cubert is still peaceful and primitive, being a little too far from Newquay to be overrun by the summer visitors.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

I can imagine some people arguing that Mark’s Gospel might be a religious novel, of which the scene is laid in Jerusalem and Galilee among Jews; that it was by a literary artifice impregnated with Jewish ideas; that the references to Sadducees and Pharisees were introduced as appropriate to the age and clime; that the old Jewish Scriptures are for the same reason acknowledged by all the actors and interlocutors as holy writ; that demonological beliefs were thrown in as being characteristic of Palestinian society of the time the writer purported to write about; that it is of the nature of a literary trick that the peculiar Messianic and Apocalyptic beliefs and aspirations rife among Jews of the period B.C. 50– A.D. 160 and later, are made to colour the narrative from beginning to end.
— from The Historical Christ; Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith by F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis) Conybeare

Before a message is about to be delivered the commutator is so placed as to ring a bell, which is done by the same arrangement as in a common alarm-clock, but the action is set in motion by a peculiar contrivance, which depends upon the property a bar of soft iron has of becoming magnetic when a wire is wound round it and a current of electricity passed through this wire; this magnetic property exists only as long as the current passes, and stops the instant it is cut off.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

Add the tomatoes, cut into small pieces also, the onions, in small pieces, and the rice.
— from Simple Italian Cookery by Mabel Earl McGinnis

After seven days Neipperg’s army made off, attended by a Prussian corps in seeming pursuit, and at the time appointed the strong fortress was surrendered.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

It certainly was a wild day; the wind shrieked in the rigging, the waves curled and broke against the quay, the little boats close in shore pitched and jarred, throwing the spray from them, and the masts of the smacks and yachts in the anchorage waved jerkily against the racing sky.
— from A Floating Home by Cyril Ionides