rable alternative, of remaining in the province, or of returning to the capital, was indeed submitted to the discretion of Belisarius; but he wisely concluded, from intercepted letters and the knowledge of his sovereign's temper, that he must either resign his head, erect his standard, or confound his enemies by his presence and submission.
— 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

So up, and to the Office till noon, and then home to a little dinner, and thither again till night, mighty busy, to my great content, doing a great deal of business, and so home to supper, and to bed; I finding this day that I may be able to do a great deal of business by dictating, if I do not read myself, or write, without spoiling my eyes, I being very well in my eyes after a great day’s work.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

—Ur, Urū, meaning village, is the name of a division of Bēdar, Bōya, Golla, Korava, Kuruba, Mādiga, and Oddē.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Granted we have obtained in this way an approximation to the strength of the power to be contended with, we can then take of our own means, and either increase them so as to obtain a preponderance, or, in case we have not the resources to effect this, then do our best by increasing our means as far as possible.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

de Montcornet, was prefect of a department of Burgundy between 1820 and 1825.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

We supposed him capable of assuming the most unexpected disguises; of being, by turns, the highly respectable Major Rawson or the noble Marquis de Raverdan, or even—for we no longer stopped with the accusing letter of R—or even such or such a person well known to all of us, and having wife, children and servants.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

+ bētendnes f. amendment , OEG 58 6 . betēon 1,2 to cover, surround, enclose , AO ; Æ, CP: dispose of, bestow, bequeath : impeach, accuse .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I deturmined any Self to proceed on to the falls and take the river, according we all Set out., I took my Servent & one man Chabono our Interpreter & his Squar accompanied, Soon after I arrived at the falls, I perceived a Cloud which appeared black and threaten imediate rain, I looked out for a Shelter but Could See no place without being in great danger of being blown into the river if the wind Should prove as turbelant as it is at Some times about 1/4 of a mile above the falls I obsd a Deep rivein in which was Shelveing rocks under which we took Shelter near the river and placed our guns the Compass &c. &c. Under a Shelveing rock on the upper Side of the Creek, in a place which was verry Secure from rain, the first Shower was moderate accompanied with a violent wind, the effects of which we did not feel, Soon after a torrent of rain and hail fell more violent than ever I Saw before, the rain fell like one voley of water falling from the heavens and gave us time only to get out of the way of a torrent of water which was Poreing down the hill in the rivin with emence force tareing every thing before it takeing with it large rocks & mud, I took my gun & Shot pouch in my left hand, and with the right Scrambled up the hill pushing the Interpreters wife (who had her Child in her arms) before me, the Interpreter himself makeing attempts to pull up his wife by the hand much Scared and nearly without motion—we at length retched the top of the hill
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

At the other end of the scale come the villages which were deliberately obliterated by Brother Boche during one of his great retreats.
— from The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England by Ian Hay

[Sidenote: Relation of the City-Stats of the Netherlands to the Dukes of Burgundy] Beginning in 1384 and continuing throughout the fifteenth century, the dukes of Burgundy, who as vassals of the French king had long held the duchy of that name in eastern France, succeeded by marriage, purchase, treachery, or force in bringing one by one the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands under their rule.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

His wife was a daughter of Bora Bora—the most beautiful woman of that island; she was the delight of his heart, and they had many children.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

One day the gasoline tank of an automobile took fire, and Jessie was in danger of being burned to death when Dave came to her rescue.
— from Dave Porter's Great Search; Or, The Perils of a Young Civil Engineer by Edward Stratemeyer

We do our best, but it's bad—very bad.
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

It received recruits not only from the recruit depot of Beverloo, but also from the depot at Warsaw.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

The Assyrian and second Chaldean kingdoms, founded about 1290 B.C. , and extending down to the destruction of Babylon by Cyrus, 538 B.C. , comprising all the buildings of Nimroud, Koyunjik, Khorsabad, and those of the second Babylon.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

A kite was devouring the liver of the Titan, drops of black blood trickled down his side; the great chains rattled, and the whole body shuddered with pain.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky