Shakespeare's dramas are usually divided into three classes, called tragedies, comedies, and historical plays.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The explanation is, that in the former chapter, where the offensive and defensive are under discussion, it is said that if the enemy is fully prepared, one cannot make certain of beating him.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

During an usigola , dancing is done in full dress, that is, with facial painting, floral decorations, valuable ornaments, and a head-dress of white cockatoo feathers (see Plates XIII , XIV ).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I hope it may be Diomed and Ulysses driving in horses from the Trojans, but I much fear that the bravest of the Argives may have come to some harm at their hands.
— from The Iliad by Homer

She knew the people, and she took a daily and unwearying delight in the kindness and simplicity of their bearing toward herself.
— from Conjuror's House: A Romance of the Free Forest by Stewart Edward White

And yet we are asked, we who speak the same language as the men, our full brothers who have fought so nobly in the trenches in Flanders, whose defence of the Verdun forts is the finest and most glorious event of the present horrible war, to forego our French language and all that it carries with it, we are told that our children cannot learn it, and must despise it and allow it to die an unnatural death in Canada.
— from Bilingualism: Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club At Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916 by N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt

He the King of all the beavers, 100 "Let yourself slide down among us, Down into the tranquil water."
— from The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cossack rebellions under Kaledin and Kornilov broke out on the Don and under Dutoff in the Urals; and Scherbachev collected a mixed anti-Bolshevik force on the borders of the Ukraine.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

Vows or habits of perpetual chastity, the monastic life itself, have found in our days an unexpected defender in M. Renan.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

“Yes!” replied Ahmeek, the beaver, He the king of all the beavers, “Let yourself slide down among us, Down into the tranquil water.”
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 4 [April 1901] by Various

Compared with the probability of plunging down an unknown depth into a boiling hell of waters, all other peril seemed too trifling to attract notice.
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

The equal annihilation of the wicked ( dhvamsanti ) and unorthodox ( dhvamsate ) is to be noticed.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

To these assessors should all the old rates, parish books, poor rates, and highway rates, also be delivered; and upon due inquiry to be made into the manner of living, and reputed wealth of the people, the stock or personal estate of every man should be assessed, without connivance; and he who is reputed to be worth a thousand pounds should be taxed at a thousand pounds, and so on; and he who was an overgrown rich tradesman of twenty or thirty thousand pounds estate should be taxed so, and plain English and plain dealing be practised indifferently throughout the kingdom; tradesmen and landed men should have neighbours’ fare, as we call it, and a rich man should not be passed by when a poor man pays.
— from An Essay Upon Projects by Daniel Defoe