For man must to his kindred dust return; Submit to the destroying hand of fate, As ripen’d ears the harvest-sickle wait.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The emperor Maurice derived his origin from ancient Rome; 29 but his immediate parents were settled at Arabissus in Cappadocia, and their singular felicity preserved them alive to behold and partake the fortune of their august son.
— 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

The emperor Maurice derived his origin from ancient Rome; but his immediate parents were settled at Arabissus in Cappadocia, and their singular felicity preserved them alive to behold and partake the fortune of their august son.
— 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

Let no man hesitate or look askance, For from the devastated homes of France And ruined Belgium the cry is hurled.
— from Hello, Boys! by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Wait for me, Sharkey,” he added, as with nervous fingers he detached his overcoat from a rack on the wall.
— from A Vendetta of the Hills by Willis George Emerson

"Truth is stranger even than detective fiction, and in the number of his adventures of mystery, danger and excitement he has all the detective heroes of fiction and reality beaten easily.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

The association of "The Devil and his Dam" has only few and remote parallels in the "Bear's-son" folk-tale.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

It meant that the Babe was going to try and drag him out for a run.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Ben Jonson describes his own face as rocky: the bark of the maple being uncommonly rough, and the grain of one of the sorts of the tree, as Evelyn expresses it, “undulated and crisped into a variety of curls.”
— from Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 by George Daniel

Hence the irritation in the nervous system of the Czarina; the hysterical fancy she caught all at once of "entertaining a bad opinion" of Lord North, of "disliking" him, of feeling a "rooted aversion" against him, of being afflicted with "a total want of confidence," etc.
— from Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx

At last he proposed going to Wales instead of returning to Carlisle; but every other officer declared his opinion for a retreat.
— from Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

To-day being new-year's-day, most of the officers were invited to the governor's table: Manly dined heartily on fish and roasted pork; he was seated on a chest near a window, out of which, when he had done eating, he would have thrown his plate, had he not been prevented: during dinner-time a band of music played in an adjoining apartment; and after the cloth was removed, one of the company sang in a very soft and superior style; but the powers of melody were lost on Manly, which disappointed our expectations, as he had before shown pleasure and readiness in imitating our tunes.
— from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench