For that on the 10 th of February last, in a Ship ye were possess’d of called the Royal Fortune, of 40 Guns, ye did maintain a hostile Defence and Resistance for some Hours, against his Majesty’s Ship the Swallow, nigh Cape Lopez Bay, on the Southern Coast of Africa.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Already at the clatter of the shop bell Mrs Neale, blackleading the parlour grate, had looked through the door, and rising from her knees had gone, aproned, and grimy with everlasting toil, to tell Mrs Verloc in the kitchen that “there was the master come back.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

And when the country was at peace Sir Bors departed, and rode forth into a forest until it was midday, and there befell him a marvellous adventure.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The lowest grades of the objectification of will are to be found in those most universal forces of nature which partly appear in all matter without exception, as gravity and impenetrability, and partly have shared the given matter among them, so that certain of them reign in one species of matter and others in another species, constituting its specific difference, as rigidity, fluidity, elasticity, electricity, magnetism, chemical properties and qualities of every kind.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

As for Bulger, I never pretended to lay down any rules for him.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Persuade the Persians to revolt, and march any army against the Medes: and whether I shall be appointed leader of the army against thee, or any other of the Medes who are in repute, thou hast what thou desirest; for these will be the first to attempt to destroy Astyages, revolting from him and coming over to thy party.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The Commission will receive, administer, and distribute all receipts from Germany in cash or in kind.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Per avaritaim aximi ducis, ad rebellionem fame coacti sunt, (in Chron.)
— 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

He had discovered another reason for her interest in his fortunes.
— from A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine

Dennis also rushed from the place, followed by the coarse, jeering laugh of those who witnessed the scene.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

It was manifest the young gentleman, if a Quaker, as his coat showed him to be, was quite a free one; and, indeed, the first words I heard him utter (which were also the first that I distinguished after rousing from my long sleep of insensibility) set the matter beyond question.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

She opened the studio door, and repeated, for the twentieth time at least, that she was sorry she could not sit to him.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

“Yes, unless the herr likes to sit down and rest for half an hour first.”
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

The hours of this day are rapidly flying, and this occasion will soon be passed.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Officers retained their side arms, mounted men their horses, which in our service were private property; and public stores, ordnance, commissary, and quartermaster, were to be turned over to officers of the proper departments and receipted for.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

However, their sense of decency and respect for the general restrained them for a while, though such ties are soon broken when troops are disinclined for danger and indifferent to disgrace.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

He expressed great appreciation for all that I had done, and regretted for my sake that he could not accept my advice.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

There we disembark and remain for a while till we have obtained the necessary servants, some of whom I have employed before.
— from Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton