Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He told me that he and his wife lived on eight dollars a week in New York, during a large part of this time, and that, by saving and investments, they laid up $117,000.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

In the first place he shook down a large piece of the wall; and when the breach appeared to be sufficiently wide, he ordered the vessels conveying the military e
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

[A Man of Business.] CROTTAT (Monsieur and Madame), retired farmers; parents of the notary Crottat, assassinated by some thieves, among them being the notorious Dannepont, alias La Pouraille.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

During a long period of decay, his impregnable city repelled the victorious armies of Barbarians, protected the wealth of Asia, and commanded, both in peace and war, the important straits which connect 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

ch'era fiera divenuta, suffolando si fugge per la valle, e l'altro dietro a lui parlando sputa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Then, at the points at which the parallel lines cut the line called the horizon, the letter S is to be on the right and the letter V on the left, and from the extremity of the semicircle, at the point G, draw a line parallel to the axis, extending to the left-hand semicircle at the point H.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

146 About three months later, on April 2, a large body of Cherokee approached the fort at Nashville (then called Nashborough, or simply “the Bluff”), and by sending a decoy ahead succeeded in drawing a large part of the garrison into an ambush.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

She looked very much astonished, as she had reason for doing, and looked particularly hard at me.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Let’s get a ball and do a little practising out in the lots.”
— from Baseball Joe at Yale; or, Pitching for the College Championship by Lester Chadwick

The Discovery of a Statue called Chac-Mool, and the Communications of Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon concerning Explorations in the Yucatan Peninsula.
— from The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury

Of the water which filters downwards, a large portion enters open ditches near the surface, before the fertilizing elements have been strained out; whereas, in covered drains of proper depth, the water is filtered through a mass of soil sufficiently deep to take from it the fertilizing substances, and discharge it, comparatively pure, from the field.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

We have been compelled to quote some strange passages, of most difficult and laborious perusal; but our task is drawing to an end.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

An excess of water is a pure luxury, and it should be remembered that sewage difficulties are largely proportionate to the amount of water which has to be dealt with.
— from The Dwelling House by George Vivian Poore

The master of all these strode through the kitchen, opened a door, passed down a long passage, and ushered his relative into a room full of stacked papers, driving whips, favourite bits and bridles.
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Yet neither of these sounds has place in their thoughts; instead, only the memory of one different and less pleasant.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

Whose soul compacts All earth's divinity, and leaves profane All space where it is not!
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan