All the Pyrates who were found at this Colony of Rogues, submitted, and received Certificates of their Pardon, except Captain Vane and his Crew; who, as soon as they saw the Men of War enter, slipp’d their Cable, set Fire to a Prize they had in the Harbour, and sailed out with their pyratical Colours flying, firing at one of the Men of War as they went off.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Damonico , or Monicon, is an iron ochre, being a compound of raw Sienna and Roman ochre burnt, and having all their qualities.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Take a passage like this from p. 19, at the very outset of his chapter on "Reconnaissance, Screening, and Raids": "The very essence of Cavalry lies in the offensive.
— from German Influence on British Cavalry by Erskine Childers

They have outstood centuries of raging storm and rending earthquake.
— from The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Handy Solomon, with a cry of rage, seized another rifle and emptied the magazine at him as fast as the lever could be worked.
— from The Mystery by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Her smoothly turning shoulders, filmed in lawn, and low bodice crowned an extravagant circumference of ruffled silk and rosettes.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

Jupiter, however, again proved conqueror, chasing from heaven his father and his king, who took refuge in that part of Italy known as Latium; Janus, monarch of this city of refuge, succoured and received him, and Saturn, to recompense his hospitality, granted to him the gift of memory, and of looking into the future.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

We left the Ras, which will be remembered by me as long as I am sensible to the charms of romantic scenery, and rode for about one hour over uneven barren ground, with slight ascents and descents, till we came to a steep declivity, to walk down which occupied us half an hour, and double that time would be necessary for ascending it.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt