[In Patna district, IGI , xxi. 72.] 38 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Such is that description in Xenophon: “A man who has fallen, and is being trampled under foot by Cyrus’s horse, strikes the belly of the animal with his scimitar; the horse starts aside and unseats Cyrus, and he falls.”
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

See Manly, Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama , I, xix.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Whose Excellency in the art of Education made him so famous all over Europe, as to be solicited by several States and Princes to go and reform the Method of their Schools; and whose works carried that Esteem, that in his own Life-time some part of them were not only translated into 12 of the usual Languages of Europe, but also into the Arabic , Turkish , Persian , and Mogolic (the common Tongue of all that part of the East-Indies ) and since his death, into xxx the Hebrew , and some others.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

[The inscription on the pillar proves the falsity of the legend, and the name Delhi is older than the Tuar dynasty ( IGI , xi. 233).] 21 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

”—Dante, Inferno, xi
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Galen also mentions a nasal syringe (ῥινεγχύτης), though he does not describe it (xi. 125).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Examples of his use of classical constructions are: the ablative absolute, as, which doen (IV, xliii ); the relative construction with when , as, which when (I, xvii ), that when (VII, xi ); the comparative of the adjective in the sense of "too," as, weaker (I, xlv ), harder (II, xxxvi ); the participial construction after till , as, till further tryall made (I, xii ); the superlative of location, as, middest (IV, xv ); and the old gerundive, as, wandering wood (I, xiii ).
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

(Dante, Inf. , XXVIII, 117.)
— from On Love by Stendhal

300; Lenten fire-custom in, x. 118; Easter fires in, x. 140; wells decked with flowers on Midsummer Day in, xi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Wolf and Devil, i. xxxi.
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

23 Rufinus, son of Silvanus, sent as an envoy to the Persians, I. xi. 24 ; slanders Hypatius, I. xi. 38 ; sent as ambassador to Hierapolis, I. xiii. 11 ; treats with Cabades at Daras, I. xvi.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius

Deucalion, i. xxix , 35 ; ii. 7 , 319 .
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

[habuit] socam et commendationem et omnem consuetudinem de illis xxx. tantum; et iiii.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Dante, Inf. xxxiv.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Here they caught, through a frame of leaves, a glimpse of Washington in the sunrise, a great congregation of marble temples and trees and sky-colored waters, the shaft of the Monument lighted with the milky radiance of a mountain peak on its upper half, the lower part still dusk with valley shadow, and across the plateau of roofs the solemn Capitol in as mythical a splendor as the stately dome that Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

If the door is shut and difficulties hedge the way, God will go before the man He calls, and open the door and sweep away the difficulties (Isaiah xlv.
— from When the Holy Ghost is Come by Samuel Logan Brengle

7. Diomed, Il. xiv.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone