Had he, too, been out before dinner, and been late in getting back?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

This produced mutual distrust, and before long both parties surrendered 549 themselves and the acropolis.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Nagmad-as ang pilapilan nga walà na makultibar, The rice paddies are dry after being left uncultivated.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘I dare be bound for that,’ he said, darting a bitter look at the grandfather.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

There was no battle during the day, and but little firing except in Warren's front; he being directed about noon to make a reconnoissance in force.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He then raised the axe again, and made a blow at Orm, the King-brother, who was lying on a bench, and the blow was directed at both legs; but Orm seeing the man about to kill him, drew in his feet instantly, threw them over his head, and the blow fell on the bench, in which the axe stuck fast; and then the blows at the Birkebein came so thick that he could scarcely fall to the ground.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Their rear was again pressed by a herd of two hundred thousand, the most stupid and savage refuse of the people, who mingled with their devotion a brutal license of rapine, prostitution, and drunkenness.
— 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

From that time there was a perpetual cry of horror and indignation against a judicial institution which thus interpreted its duties, and before long the State undertook the suppression of these secret tribunals.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Once, indeed, during a brief lull in the storm, I ventured out, and succeeded in boiling a pot of coffee and in frying a little pork, and these two smoking dishes somewhat dispelled the chill that was creeping over us.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

There is much to be done, and but little time to do it, for tomorrow the Spaniard will be in front of your walls."
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In making this, the stroke is begun with the feeling of painting and reproducing the hard nature of a tack and then continued to depict a rat's tail, which grows small by degrees and beautifully less.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

It is, perhaps, worth noting here that Shakespeare lends Cleopatra, as he afterwards lent Coriolanus, his own delicate senses and neuropathic loathing for mechanic slaves with “greasy aprons” and “thick breaths rank of gross diet”; it is Shakespeare too and not Cleopatra who speaks of death as bringing “liberty.”
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

Would that such scientific men as Tyndall and Huxley might see Christ in nature, and, doing his will, might learn of the doctrine and be led to the Father!
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

"You mustn't feel bad 'bout it, Toby," said Ben, consolingly, "for, you see, monkeys has got to die jest like folks, an' your Stubbs was sich a old feller that I reckon he'd died anyhow before long.
— from Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis

Oh loved Sister, He speaks now of as brave a Knight as e'er Did spur a noble Steed: surely the gods Would have him die a batchelor, lest his race Should show i'th' world too godlike: his behaviour So charm'd me, that methought Alcides was To him a Sow of Lead: if I could praise Each part of him to th' all I have spoke,
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher