Thus the capital of the world at length submitted to the yoke of slavery it had imposed on others, and the very day of its fall was the eve of that on which it conferred on one of its citizens the title of Arbiter of Good Taste.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we treat of the special expressions of man, the latter part of our first Principle, as given at the commencement of this chapter, will be seen to hold good; namely, that when movements, associated through habit with certain states of the mind, are partially repressed by the will, the strictly involuntary muscles, as well as those which are least under the separate control of the will, are liable still to act; and their action is often highly expressive.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Then they, who were before supposed to be half-dead or lifeless phantoms, seemed to obey the cries of the women, and, leaping suddenly up from their seats, attacked the strangers with furious onset.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

[263] It chanced at length, Perithous came, to attend This worthy Theseus, his familiar friend: Their love in early infancy began, And rose as childhood ripened into man, } { Companions of the war; and loved so well, {
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

for head and foot margins —and if the space were not sufficient, the lines might be made a little closer, or the writing a little smaller (or, if necessary, the blank lines might be left out between the verses; p. 123 ).
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

But when he had come hither, Robert himself issued suddenly from the cover of the wood” ( a latebris silvæ ); “and the aforesaid Henry, seeing that he could not resist the crowd of Scots, and wishing to retire to his friends, turned his horse; but Robert withstood him, and with the axe which he carried in his hand, smashed in his skull.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

Hagar poured out the boy's cup of tea, waited a little space, then returned it to its steaming pot again.
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

Under that shelter they carry on their work, and lie secure against after-reckonings.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

Our general course of travel was a little south of east.
— from Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer, Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Jacob Hamblin