Before the gates of the city Alcmæon encountered the Thebans under the command of Laodamas, the son of Eteocles.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

And in the year 1408, Robert Rikeden, of Essex, and Margaret his wife, confirmed to Richard Whittington, and other citizens of London, the said manor of Leaden hall, with the appurtenances, the advowsons of St. Peter’s church, St. Margaret’s Pattens, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

2 My Soul doth long and almost die Thy Courts O Lord to see, My heart and flesh aloud do crie, O living God, for thee.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

That the shadow should be deep as it came on, like the shadow of an actual presence, was in accordance with the laws of the physical world, for all the Light that shone on Betty Higden lay beyond Death.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

On the view of each organic being and each separate organ having been specially created, how utterly inexplicable it is that parts, like the teeth in the embryonic calf or like the shrivelled wings under the soldered wing-covers of some beetles, should thus so frequently bear the plain stamp of inutility!
— 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

In the crusade of Louis the Seventh, the Greek clergy washed and purified the altars which had been defiled by the sacrifice of a French priest.
— 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

The city of Limerick, the siege of which was begun under his majesty king William himself, the year after I went into the army—lies, an' please your honours, in the middle of a devilish wet, swampy country.—'Tis quite surrounded, said my uncle Toby, with the Shannon, and is, by its situation, one of the strongest fortified places in Ireland.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In case of loss the shareholder to renew his share. 6.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Upon this the bishop, looking up to the ceiling of the room in which there were several large chinks, began calling out lustily to some unseen person above, and immediately was replied to in a shrill voice of objurgation, demanding in peremptory words, interlarded with many oaths, what he wanted.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It is one, doubtless, to be outgrown by the human race; but how slowly that growth creeps onwards, let this success in the stencilling of St Paul’s teach us, to our confusion.
— from Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays by Alice Meynell

In consideration of lies, the sentence is often admittedly reduced.
— from Some Conditions of Child Life in England by Benjamin Waugh

The construction of lighthouses, the shortening of the passage to and from Europe by the adoption of the route viâ the Straits of Belleisle, and the development of the magnificent water powers of the Ottawa, were all matters that received his attention during his tenure of office.
— from The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4) by John Charles Dent

Commencing operations at the castle of Liddel, the Scots took that stronghold, put the garrison to the sword, and beheaded Walter Selby, the governor, in their king's presence, without so much as suffering him to be confessed.
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

Imitate her example, be faithful to the opinions we have defended, and to the glory we have acquired: any other course can only lead to shame and confusion."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

To illustrate its course, she drew with her paddle a long line, with sundry curves and broader spaces, some longer, some smaller, with bays and inlets, which she gave them to understand were the chain of lakes that she spoke of.
— from Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

They entered into conversation with them, but could only learn that some 450 of the militia from Philadelphia and the counties of Gloucester and Salem had arrived on the spot.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty