Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, Which, like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from Hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

However, Solon supported his case by quoting certain oracles from Delphi, in which the god addresses Salamis as Ionian.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The breadth was defined by the vague computation of fifteen days' journey; but, from the proposal of Attila to remove the situation of the national market, it soon appeared, that he comprehended the ruined city of Naissus within the limits of his dominions.
— 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

In their emigrations, perhaps in their expeditions, the host was accompanied by thousands of sheep and oxen which increased the cloud of formidable dust, and afforded a constant and wholesale supply of milk and animal food.
— 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

] VERT (Michel-Jean-Jerome), nick-named Vermichel, formerly violinist in the Bourgogne regiment, was occupied, during the Restoration, with the various callings of fiddler, door-keeper of the Hotel de Ville, drum-beater of Soulanges, jailer of the local prison, and finally bailiff's deputy in the service of Brunet.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Having thus defeated them, they set the cities on fire, dispersed the country people, and pursued the victory till they had reduced all Norway, as also Dacia, under the dominion of King Arthur.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Hope swings her anchor like a toy, Love laughs and shows the silver arrow We knew so well as man and boy,— The shaft that stings through bone and marrow; Again our kindling pulses beat, With tangled curls our fingers dally, And bygone beauties smile as sweet
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Simultaneously I was conscious of feeling disappointed in young Harvey-Browne.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

It was no time for conversation or for dog-patting.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

Are we really at war for conquest or seizure, or for the benefit of commerce, or for defense against aggressions 49 that have not yet been made?
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

Their great parties are said to be collected by supernatural authority, communicated by the jugglers; and they are preceded, like their wars and hunts, by a course of fasting, dreaming, and other means of propitiating fortune.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

Aulosphæra quadrifurca , n. sp. Radial tubes cylindro-conical, straight, about as long as the smooth, cylindrical, tangential tubes; studded with numerous irregular lateral branches in the distal half, and armed at the distal end with a cross of four divergent, forked, terminal branches.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

"They often have to camp out for days at a time.
— from The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch; Or, Little Folks on Ponyback by Howard Roger Garis

Though brick construction made Ostia more nearly fireproof than a modern city of frame dwellings, the grain for the dole stored in the city’s numerous warehouses was too valuable a commodity to risk, so a cohort of firemen detached from the main corps in Rome was kept at the ready in barracks behind the Baths of Neptune ( Reg. II,v).
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

And on the following evening, after a captivity of fifteen days, Pedro rode once more into the city of Jerez.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman