The panic (due to the strange appearance of the barbarians and their unwonted method of fighting) which alone had caused the defeat, struck so deep into their minds that for centuries afterwards the name and the sight of Gauls inspired them with terror.’—Ihne. 83 D 24 THE INVASION OF THE GAULS, 390 B.C. (3) Roman Dignity and Courage.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

That day Varenka came to dinner and told them that Anna Pavlovna had changed her mind and given up the expedition for the morrow.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk, Ere you can take due orders for a priest; Say you consent and censure well the deed,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And this day will come, shall come, must come; the day of death and the day of judgement.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

They began to chase the deer, and followed it right over the island.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter .
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

There was no way of going around it, for it seemed to extend to the right and left as far as they could see; and, besides, they did not dare change the direction of their journey for fear of getting lost.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

When [Antonius] Primus heard of this, he raised up his men immediately, and made them put on their armor, and led them against those that had revolted; hereupon they put themselves in order of battle, and made a resistance for a while, but were soon beaten, and fled to Cremona; then did Primus take his horsemen, and cut off their entrance into the city, and encompassed and destroyed a great multitude of them before the city, and fell into the city together with the rest, and gave leave to his soldiers to plunder it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I recommend that measures be enacted promptly to accomplish these results and I suggest that the Congress should consider the development of such a plan through the Federal Reserve Banks.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

But the first was indisposed to marry, and only consented to do so after being mollified by ardent devotions and great austerities enacted by the second.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

There was such a telegraph line between Dover and London at the time of Waterloo; and this telegraph began relating the news of the battle, which had come to Dover by ship, to anxious London, when a fog set in and the Londoners had to wait until a courier on horseback arrived.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson

Following him closely on the 12th came the divisions of General Tucker and General Kelly-Kenny.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree by Louis Creswicke

How could them darn tourists tell'what was goin' on in Patmos?
— from Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

He went directly to his room, and debated within himself whether or not he should go down and interrupt by a frank and full confession the discussion which he thought was probably taking place between Mr. and Mrs. Grayson.
— from The Graysons: A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston

"As soon as I had the least intelligence that they were our treacherous enemies I have given out commissions to destroy them all," he said.
— from Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

[Pg 340] by his marvellous use of conversation that Dumas attains his actual mastery of story-telling; and so this characteristic of his is of double importance and requires a Benjamin's allowance of treatment.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury