It struck the bottom of the guitar and pierced it through and through; Rykov dodged and thus escaped death, but he was frightened; with a cry of “Yagers!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Here will I not keep silence of thy hard death-doom and thine excellent deeds (if in any wise things wrought in the old time may win belief), nor of thyself, O fitly remembered!
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The rage of the soldiers, whom he had provoked by his indiscretion, was the cause and the excuse of his death; and the emperor, deeply wounded by his own reproaches and those of the public, offered some consolation to the family of Ursulus, by the restitution of his confiscated fortunes.
— 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

[Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c. n.; in bad repute &c. n.; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. inglorious; nameless, renownless[obs3]; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted[obs3], unhonored, unglorified[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

During a “thaw,” every dismembered cake was marked by a glittering white border which was superbly shaded inward by aurora borealis rays, which were a flaming yellow where they joined the white border, and from thence toward their points tapered into glowing crimson, then into a rich, pale carmine, and finally into a faint blush that held its own a moment and then dimmed and turned black.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

He directed that every son should receive three times as much as a daughter, and that every daughter should have twice as much as their mother.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

the principal der Ausdruck the expression der Barpreis der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

We define the "engraphic effect" of a stimulus as the effect in making a difference between the primary and secondary indifference-states, and this difference itself we define as the "engram" due to the stimulus.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And this took place at the end of the twelfth day after the eightieth day, from the time Adam and Eve came out of the garden.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

You don't seem to realize it, but there are loads of obligations I get dreadfully tired of, like the Social Service when it is my month to follow the accounts, and visits to Annie Hazard who has a cancer of the stomach and is dying, and thinking every day what to get you and the children and the servants to eat.
— from Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer

“Well, not of ten exactly: but bears do attack travellers every day.
— from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

The credit of the defences, and the excellent disposition of marksmen, artillery, and reserves, belongs to Johnson, who, unfortunately, was wounded in the hips in the first part of the battle, and had to leave the field for shelter.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

The dusk was drawing down apace, the earth dark about them, and seaward that window in the west pale and lovely.
— from Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant

Specific Drugs and Their Effects Drug Enforcement Administration.
— from What Works: Schools Without Drugs by United States. Department of Education

"And to go from a paradise like this to such a den as that," exclaimed Dopsy, still harping on the unloveliness of the Pimlico lodging.
— from Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In spite of these discoveries, and the eager discussions to which they led, the question of the antiquity of man and of his presence amongst the great Quaternary page 11 animals made but little progress, and it was reserved to a Frenchman, M. Boucher de Perthes, to compel the scientific world to accept the truth.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

I would wear A long loose gown, down to the feet and hands, With plaits here, close about the throat, all day; And all night lie, the cool long nights, in bed; And have new milk to drink, apples to eat, Deuzans and junetings, leather-coats ...
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning