But a more dangerous one lay in another direction.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The weather is like our hot July, except that it is drier than the August drought on Long Island.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Then leaving this on the right, he pitched his camp in the territory of Helos, which of all the districts of Laconia is the most extensive and most beautiful.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

However, I was resolved to profit by this behaviour, and treat her in my turn with less ceremony; accordingly, I laid close siege to her, and, finding her not at all disgusted with the gross incense I offered, that very night made a declaration of love in plain terms.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Bering's determinations of longitude in East Siberia were the first made there, and through them it was ascertained that the country extended thirty degrees farther toward the east than was supposed.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Laws 1. 631 C]; a division of labour, ibid.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

His published works were: "Dawning of Light in the East" (1854), being an account of his work in Persia, Kurdistan and Mesopotamia; "Wanderings amongst the Falashas in Abyssinia" (1862); and "The Captive Missionary" (1868), both narratives of his Abyssinian experiences.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Hyrcanus took also Dora and Marissa, cities of Idumea, and subdued all the Idumeans; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, 25 and of the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[Note 49: The allusions in the foregoing stanza are in the first place to a poem entitled "The First Snow," by Prince Viazemski and secondly to "Eda," by Baratynski, a poem descriptive of life in Finland.]
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Allah protect thee, senor.” These were the words and contents of the second paper, and on hearing them, each declared himself willing to be the ransomed one, and promised to go and return with scrupulous good faith; and I too made the same offer; but to all this the renegade objected, saying that he would not on any account consent to one being set free before all went together, as experience had taught him how ill those who have been set free keep promises which they made in captivity; for captives of distinction frequently had recourse to this plan, paying the ransom of one who was to go to Valencia or Majorca with money to enable him to arm a bark and return for the others who had ransomed him, but who never came back; for recovered liberty and the dread of losing it again efface from the memory all the obligations in the world.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In three days or less I intend calling Carmen Montijo my wife.
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

If ladies, who are ever purchasing new clothes, were aware that disease often lurks in these, they would be less anxious to enter dressmakers' shops.
— from A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The descriptions of life in the Quartier Latin are distinguished for their freshness and liveliness."— St. James Gazette (London).
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai

Thus, in “Twelfth Night” (iv. 1), the clown sings: “I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, I’ll be with you again In a trice, Like to the old Vice, Your need to sustain; Who, with dagger of lath, In his rage and his wrath, Cries, Ah, ha! to the devil,” etc.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

And certainly that wise and great man, whoever he was (some say he was St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, in Italy), who wrote the Te Deum , thought the same; for how does he end the Te Deum ? ‘O Lord, in Thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded,’ that is, brought to shame.
— from Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley

37 Weismann, The Duration of Life , in “Essays on Heredity” (English translation), Oxford, 1889. 38 Oustalet, “ La Longévité chez les Animaux vertébrés ,” La Nature , May 12, 1900, p. 378.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

On a wednesdaie (saith he) at S. Andrews tide, Iohn Wallise of Grimsbie fought in lists with Martilet of Nauarre esquier, at Westminster, in presence of K. Richard & of Iohn the good duke of Lancaster: in so much that the said Iohn Wallise slue his aduersarie, whervpon at the kings cōmandement being made knight, he was inriched with manie gifts, as well of the kings and the dukes bestowing, as also of other great men and peeres of the realme.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

Parigné l'Eveque Paris, cafés in; riots in; elections in; early in the war; defensive preparations; fugitives and refugees; wounded soldiers in; Anglo-American ambulance in; army and armament of; Hugo's return to; German advance on; last day of liberty in; live-stock in; customary meat supply of; clubs in; defence of Châtillon; siege begins; attempts to leave; first couriers from; balloon and pigeon post; siege jests; spyophobia and signal craze in; amazons of; reconnaissances and sorties from; news of Metz in; demonstrations and riots in; plebiscitum in; food and rations in; English people leave; state of environs of; steps to relieve; bombardment of; health of; deserters in; affray in; capitulation of; author returns to; aspect after the armistice; Germans enter; rising of the Commune, See also Revolution.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

"By the will of his holiness the pharaoh," began Pentuer, "and with consent of the supreme priestly power, we are to initiate the heir to the throne, Ramses, into some details of life in Egypt, details known only to the divinities who govern the country and the temples.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

Bruno, like many another, was better than his system; and at that time the Church herself had not reached those depths of legalised iniquity wherein she afterwards plunged.
— from Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt