218 B 57 CIVIL WAR, 49-45 B.C. (8) Pompeius ill-advised at Pharsalus, 48 B.C. Inter duas acies tantum erat relictum spatii, ut satis esset ad concursum utriusque exercitus.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

You will be thrown into the world some day, and then every rational satisfaction of your nature that you deny now will assault you like a savage appetite."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In the second place, certain trees or shrubs, by reason of their resistance to drought, and their elaborate root system, which enables them to gather water from the deeper layers of the soil, will produce succulent fruits without needing artificial supplies of water.
— from Modern Geography by Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin

This heavy task was entered on by the British forces with unbroken determination; and the effort relaxed scarcely any of its vigour till 18th Sept., while the last big British attack on the Ancre began on 13th Nov.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

But despite all these everlasting revolutions, stagnation reigns supreme throughout the most priest-ridden land under the sun.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

The walls were so loopholed for musketry, the bastions and cannon were so numerous, the ditch around it was so deep, and the earthen rampart so high, that all marvelled how it came to be so easily captured on the preceding day.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

The admirers of his poetry have applied to him, after the Italian manner, the surname of the divine ; and this epithet, rendered so equivocal by its application to Pietro Aretino, was never bestowed on any other Spanish poet.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

The Royal Welsh at once rushed to our assistance; every rock and stone was hotly disputed, and the enemy received such a warm reception that they were compelled to fall back for a time.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing