After this, being ruler of these two nations and both of them strong, he proceeded to subdue Asia going from one nation to another, until at last he marched against the Assyrians, those Assyrians I mean who dwelt at Nineveh, and who formerly had been rulers of the whole, but at that time they were left without support their allies having revolted from them, though at home they were prosperous enough.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Following the memorandum as our guide, we next laid my stick in the necessary direction, as neatly as we could, on the uneven surface of the rocks.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Speculative philosophers drew along, not always with wrinkled foreheads and hoary hair as in framed portraits, but pink-faced, slim, and active as in youth; modern divines sheeted in their surplices, among whom the most real to Jude Fawley were the founders of the religious school called Tractarian; the well-known three, the enthusiast, the poet, and the formularist, the echoes of whose teachings had influenced him even in his obscure home.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

And when a ram-tortoise had approached to batter down the wall, they let down a noose, and when they had caught the ram with it, winding it over a drum by turning a capstan, having raised the head of the ram, they did not allow the wall to be touched, and finally they destroyed the entire machine by glowing fire-darts and the blows of ballistae.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

"Fear not, till Birnam Wood Do come to Dunsinane," and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But, [ 284 ] whatever may be the meaning of the word, there is little doubt that the Twins of Vedic Mythology—Yama and Yami—parted into genii of Day and Night, and were ultimately spiritualised in the Spirit of Light and Spirit of Darkness which have made the basis of all popular theology from the time of Zoroaster until this day.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

How we marched into the city of Tlascalla, and were received by the old caziques; of the present they made us, and how they brought us their daughters and nieces; and what further happened 176 Chap.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Two thousand miles of ceaseless rush and rattle and clatter, by night and by day, and never a weary moment, never a lapse of interest!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

They go, they come, they gallop and dance, and not a word of death.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

We went into the buttry, and there stayed and talked, and then into the hall again, and there wine was offered and they drunk, I only drinking some hypocras, which do not break my vowe, it being, to the best of my present judgment, only a mixed compound drink, and not any wine.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Quietly drawing as near as we dared, we dropped upon the bank and listened in spellbound silence to our unseen melodist.
— from Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller

They looked up the canal, and finally discovered a naked arm waving frantically from behind a barn that stood near the water.
— from Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Not long after that he yielded to a temptation that haunted him day and night, and went to call upon Amy, who was still living with her mother at Westbourne Park.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Dharma Dhwaj answered not a word to this, but promised to be wiser another time.
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Thus six of these damsels take their turn for three days and nights, and wait on him when he is in his chamber and when he is in his bed, to serve him in any way, and to be entirely at his orders.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Rooms all shut up," Ellen declared, "and not a word left behind nor nothing, and little Alfred come down with a messenger boy, in such a mess as never was!"
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"Let us drive as near as we can, and get a good view before he flies."
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

Then fell I upon my face and I called upon the Lord in my sore trouble, and besought him that he would send me help from heaven; and I repeated over and over again his comfortable words, how he bade us not fear them that could slay the body, and how he promised that, though we should be slain, yet not one hair of our heads should perish; and I bethought myself of my beloved teacher Paulus, how he also had lain in just such another dungeon for nine days and nights, and with what a constancy he had 291 held fast to the faith of the Lord Jesus; and I also called to mind the last words of the elder Philochristus, how he had bidden me play the man and fight the good fight for Christ.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott