Anno 1527, when Rome was sacked by Burbonius, the common soldiers made such spoil, that fair [2345] churches were turned to stables, old monuments and books made horse-litter, or burned like straw; relics, costly pictures defaced; altars demolished, rich hangings, carpets, &c., trampled in the dirt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Here again, as in the case of the reconciliation of the State Department and Defense broadcasts, it is impossible to draw a doctrinal rule which would prescribe on one hand that all propaganda broadcasts should be unofficial or that they should all be official.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Chia Yün upon hearing this propitious language, hastily drew near one step, and designedly asked: "Does really uncle often refer to me?"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

With one swing of his mighty longsword he laid a dozen corpses at his feet, and so he hewed a pathway before him until in another moment he stood upon the platform beside me, dealing death and destruction right and left.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The skill and strength that were exerted in wrestling and boxing bear a distant and doubtful relation to the merit of a soldier; but the tournaments, as they were invented in France, and eagerly adopted both in the East and West, presented a lively image of the business of the field.
— 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 Peasantry.] SODERINI (Prince), father of Madame d'Argaiolo, who was afterwards the Duchesse Alphonse de Rhetore; at Besancon, in 1834, he demanded of Albert Savarus his daughter's letters and portrait.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

So Man, as is most just, Shall satisfie for Man, be judg’d and die, And dying rise, and rising with him raise His Brethren, ransomd with his own dear life.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Manila pharmacist, D. Anacleto del Rosario, sent to the Paris Exposition of 1899 a specimen of this gum obtained on the plantation of D. P. P. Roxas, in Batangas.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

He turn'd him now from Teviotside, And guided by the tinkling rill, Northward the dark ascent did ride, And gained the moor at Horslichill; Broad on the left before him lay, For many a mile, the Roman way.= 175 "A moment now he slack'd his speed, A moment breathed his panting steed; Drew saddle-girth and corslet-band, And loosen'd in the sheath his brand.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

Instead, he drew a dingy, ragged dress from the bundle beneath the thwart and in this disguised himself as an old woman, drawing a cotton wimple low over his head and forehead to hide his short hair.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Small majorities may give way or abstain; but after so determined a demonstration, repentance will be suicidal.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

As for the girl who was named as vice-president— He saw her, day after day, riding through town in the same automobile that he had helped re-tire on the Denver road.
— from The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Despair and deductive reasoning had brought Lucien to this pass, but both varieties are curable; it is only the pathological suicide that is inevitable.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

As soon, therefore, as it became quite dark, Colonel Clive landed with the troops, and took up a position between the Mahrattas and the fort; where, to his great disappointment and disgust, Ramajee Punt found him in the morning.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

His early ambition, his ill-omened marriage, the causes of his after-rise in the wrong-judging world, the first dawn of his reputation, his rapid and flattering successes, his present elevation, his aspiring hope of far higher office, and more patrician honours,—all these phantoms passed before him in checkered shadow and light; but ever with each stalked one disquieting and dark remembrance,—the loss of his only son.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

[53] Down the quiet street came the roll of drums, and David rushed to the gate, wishing with all his heart that he might follow the soldiers.
— from The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Elma Ehrlich Levinger