A third detachment was more fortunate, reaching the Cape in May; but it was delayed there two months by the wretched condition of the ships and crews.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

you shall be convinced of the strength and constancy of my passion, your heart must soften into pity and repentance.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

This is what he said: some lawyers lead their clients on a thread until judgement is passed, but there are others who immediately lift their clients onto their shoulders and carry them all the way to the judgement and beyond.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Such new claims of the synod and conclave were disputed; three kings, of Germany, Hungary, and Naples, adhered to the cause of Gregory the Twelfth; and Benedict the Thirteenth, himself a Spaniard, was acknowledged by the devotion and patriotism of that powerful nation.
— 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

After seven years of mission work, owing to the combined labour of carrying on the service and collecting funds for the maintenance of the mission, his health broke down and he gave up the work.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The successive speeches in praise of love are characteristic of the speakers, and contribute in various degrees to the final result; they are all designed to prepare the way for Socrates, who gathers up the threads anew, and skims the highest points of each of them.
— from Symposium by Plato

{109} Angling This most delightful of outdoor pastimes requires for its enjoyment no elaborate or expensive paraphernalia: a rod cut on the spot, a cork float, an ordinary hook baited with angleworm, grasshopper, grub, may-fly, or any of a dozen other handy lures, will answer for most occasions.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

They might act as so many fences to protect the tender blade from the piercing winds of the spring; or, by multiplying the reflexion of the sun, they might increase the warmth, so as to mitigate the natural chilness of the soil and climate—But, surely this excessive perspiration might be more effectually checked by different kinds of manure, such as ashes, lime, chalk, or marl, of which last it seems there are many pits in this kingdom: as for the warmth, it would be much more equally obtained by inclosures; the cultivation would require less labour; and the ploughs, harrows, and horses, would not suffer half the damage which they now sustain.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We supplied the necessary money, fifteen hundred dollars (five hundred dollars each), and Bestor carried on the store at Coloma for his share.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

So the two travellers held a consultation on this subject, and concluded what to have.
— from Rollo on the Rhine by Jacob Abbott

Roll up each slice of veal, cover with a sheet of buttered paper, put the cover on the stewpan and cook for three-quarters of an hour in two ounces of butter on a slow fire.
— from The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.

A couple of savage dogs greeted their arrival, which the police would have shot in their tracks, only that the old man came on the scene, and chased the ugly brutes away.
— from The Boy Scouts for City Improvement by Robert Shaler

The characters of this specimen agree closely with those of the specimens from Lagoa Santa.
— from Speciation in the Brazilian Spiny Rats by João Moojen

2. A later movement of people whose stone structures tended to take the form of pyramids, who had bird totems, practised a cult of the sun and cremated their dead.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

At Reno we began the climb over the Sierras and Chili said we were in California.
— from The Story of Captain, the Horse with the Human Brain by George Wharton James