The proximity of these rivers has suggested the practice, or at least the idea, of wafting the precious merchandise of India down the Oxus, over the Caspian, up the Cyrus, and with the current of the Phasis into the Euxine and Mediterranean Seas.
— 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 conqueror upbraided the conquered with the victory.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

As you utter the last words give the end of the line three twists ( pioh ) and then clench the teeth upon it ( katup di gigi ) thrice, holding your breath as you do so; then jerk it ( rentak ) thrice and haul upon it ( runtun ); if you feel much resistance slack it off again and repeat the ceremony, using the “crippling charm” as before, “until you break all the bones in his body.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“Ah! ah!” said Gondy, reflecting, “you are right, sir; some one who could raise the legion of paupers who choke up the crossings of Paris; some one who would know how to cry aloud to them, that all France might hear it, that it is Mazarin who has reduced them to poverty.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The Author gives some account of himself and family—His first inducements to travel—He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life—Gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput—Is made a prisoner, and carried up the country.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

They were just then sending off thirty ships and a thousand heavy infantry for his country under the command of Archestratus, son of Lycomedes, with four colleagues.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Quid tain dextro pede concipis, ut te Conatus non poniteat, votique peracti?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

All our standing rigging, fore and aft, was set up and tarred; the masts stayed; the lower and top-mast rigging rattled down, (or up, as the fashion now is;) and so careful were our officers to keep the rattlins taut and straight, that we were obliged to go aloft upon the ropes and shearpoles with which the rigging was swifted in; and these were used as jury rattlins until we got close upon the coast.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

[14] Since, however, to every difference in the end accepted at least some difference in method will generally correspond: if all the ends which men are found practically to adopt as [9] ultimate (subordinating everything else to the attainment of them under the influence of ‘ruling passions’), were taken as principles for which the student of Ethics is called upon to construct rational methods, his task would be very complex and extensive.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

But I do not clearly understand the change in the order.
— from The Republic by Plato

The captain reported his discovery to General Butler, who failed to notify the commanding general, and, at sunrise, the Indians made a furious charge upon the camp of the militia.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Many ancient clocks upon the continent exhibit processions of saints and various other religious automata; but the most singular of all, perhaps, is one in the cathedral of St. John at Lyon.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Richly woven robes are cast upon the couches in the hall, and light is shed upon the banquet-tables from blazing torches in the hands of golden boys.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

"Not much to be seen here," said Redgrave, as he came up the companion-way, "and I don't think it would be safe to go out.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

“I ask your pardon, sir,” said James; “but i' faith there's many a true word said in jest; and it seems to me that there's a moral in the parable of the young woman who took the flying-fish of the South Seas for her model rather than the herring of the three-fathom coast-line of the Channel; and that moral touches close upon the complaint made by our good mother against Mr. Garrick.”
— from Fanny's First Novel by Frank Frankfort Moore

He rubbed the cent upon the cuff of his coat to make it shine, and held it up a moment in the stream of wintry sunshine that poured through the office window and lay in a golden square on the bare floor.
— from John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Long after the service was over the remnant of the Battalion stood in solemn reverie, unable it seemed to leave their comrades, until the Colonel of the 3rd King's Royal Rifle Corps gave them positive orders to retire, when, led by Lieut.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

There was now a terrible medley, a continuous uproar, the crashing fire of hundreds of rifles, the shouts of the Indians, and the cries of the wounded.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

And then, as the sunlight was filtering through and turning the brook from blue to crystal, we came upon the Celebrity.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The human soul which rules this region has established five ways of communication under the care of a watchman who takes whatever comes along them and passes it on to a treasurer who presents it to the King.
— from Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field