But the generous Diomedes' steeds, according to Weber, disdained such scoundrel-burden; and, flinging up their royal heels, did soon project most of it, in parabolic curves, to a distance, amid peals of laughter: and were caught.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And when they were all gone but Mrs. Jervis, I said, And now, dearest sir, permit me, on my knees, thus to bless you, and pray for you.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent—those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth’s primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

When Tacitus surveyed the primitive simplicity of the Germans, he discovered some permanent maxims, or customs, of public and private life, which were preserved by faithful tradition till the introduction of the art of writing, and of the Latin tongue.
— 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 law of 1844 was at once attacked, and was made the basis of an attempt to defeat several prominent members of the legislature who had voted for it.
— from The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918 by Various

He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent— those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Edictum de Synodo Parisiensi , 24: “In ipsum capitali sententia judicetur, qualiter alii non debeant similia perpetrare” (Migne, op. cit. lxxx.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The last danger encountered was when some dismounted men came near driving some pack mules over me.
— from The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron

Col. Wibb Cooper, the Philippine Dept. Surgeon, picked me out of some one hundred medical officers because I had just enough time to do on my tour in the Philippines, not too little, not too much medical training and experience, just enough responsibility, personality, sociability, etc.
— from Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book by Eugene C. Jacobs

Did she practice medicine, or matrimony?
— from Gypsy's Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

—Diagram showing possible motions of the airplane camera: three of translation and three of rotation, and their combinations.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

But she was not intimidated by them nor by the illustrious Monsieur Dauphin, so perfectly master of his faculties.
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett