But while fully alive to these points, they yet saw that Carthaginian aggrandisement was not confined to Libya, but had embraced many districts in Iberia as well; and that Carthage was, besides, mistress of all the islands in the Sardinian and Tyrrhenian seas: they were beginning, therefore, to be exceedingly anxious lest, if the Carthaginians became masters of Sicily also, they should find them very dangerous and formidable neighbours, surrounding them as they would on every side, and occupying a position which commanded all the coasts of Italy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Another time I remember me that, without any other in my company than a serving-man of mine, I passed yonder alongside the Cemetery of the Minor Friars, a little after the Ave Maria, albeit there had been a woman buried there that very day, and felt no whit of fear;
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

She left Boldwood's side, and he walked up and down alone for nearly a quarter of an hour.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The navigation of this coast by the shortest route takes a merchantman four days and four nights with a wind astern the whole way: by land an active man, travelling by the shortest road, can get from Abdera to the Danube in eleven days.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Our sum-engines never drop a figure, nor our looms a stitch; the machine is brisk and active, when the man is weary; it is clear-headed and collected, when the man is stupid and dull; it needs no slumber, when man must sleep or drop; ever at its post, ever ready for work, its alacrity never flags, its patience never gives in; its might is stronger than combined hundreds, and swifter than the flight of birds; it can burrow beneath the earth, and walk upon the largest rivers and sink not.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Incipit Comoedia Dantis Alagherii, Florentini natione, non moribus.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

With an Editorial Preface by Maurice Parmelee , Associate Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri, and an Introduction by Arthur C. Train , formerly Assistant District Attorney for New York County. 7. Criminology.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Abigail returned from her interview with David, and found Nabal "very drunken; wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Natives of the South Sea Islands have been driven as far north as this in their frail canoes.
— from Summer Cruising in the South Seas by Charles Warren Stoddard

—Total, 351, distributed as follows: Nebraska : Adams County : Bladen, 10 (AMNH).
— from Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23 by Henry W. Setzer

Even thus stand ye dazed, and fight not.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Cato at this question cried out aloud, "Hush, my son; I approve of all that you have done, and find no fault with you: I only desire to leave behind me more sons of my race, and more citizens
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Flotilla leader— Tipperary Destroyers— Ardent Fortune Nestor Nomad Shark Sparrowhawk Turbulent The larger German vessels known to have been sunk were the following:— Lutzow , Pommern , Frauenlob , Wiesbaden , Elbing , Rostock .
— from A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War by R. P. P. Rowe

It reached Washington soon after tidings that Norfolk, Virginia, had been burned (Jan. 1st) by Lord Dunmore, as Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, had been, Oct 17, 1775, by ships under Admiral Graves. *
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

I caught a spar an’ floated three days an’ four nights, makin’ at last Andros Isle, where a fisherman pulled me ashore more dead’n alive.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum