It was a patient siege laid to the truth, which was approached blindly and without a general, as by an army of ants; it was not stormed imaginatively as by the ancient Ionians, who had reached at once the notion of nature's dynamic unity, but had neglected to take possession in detail of the intervening tracts, whence resources might be drawn in order to maintain the main position.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The five kilometers to Station One disappeared unnoticed beneath his feet as he walked, and he looked up in surprise to see the white walls and red roofs of the station looming before him.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c. Against terrible dreams; not to sup late, or eat peas, cabbage, venison, meats heavy of digestion, use balm, hart's-tongue, &c. Against ruddiness and blushing, inward and outward remedies.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He had lost the best part of his income by the evidence of his wife, and yet was daily upbraided by her for having, among other things, been the occasion of depriving her of that benefit; but such was his fortune, and he was obliged to submit to it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Of the issue of the business, there are two different accounts: some say, that the city was taken by storm; and that Vitruvius fell alive into the hands [of the conquerors]: others maintain that the townsmen, to avoid the extremities of a storm, presenting the rod of peace, surrendered to the consul; and that Vitruvius was delivered up by his troops.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The term, as it occurs in the document used by Hippolytus, plainly denotes the whole mundane region.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Neither is the teacher of the art to be deemed unjust because his pupils are unjust and make a bad use of the lessons which they have learned from him.
— from Gorgias by Plato

So thus he sorrowed till it was day, and he heard the birds sing; then was he somewhat comforted, and departing from the cross on foot, he came into a wild forest, and to a high mountain, and there he found a hermitage; and, kneeling before the hermit down upon both his knees, he cried for mercy for his wicked works, and prayed him to hear his confession.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

It was very comical to see, because he had the other guy pulling the target down, you know, and he will take and maybe gum it once in a while or run the disk up; but he had the other guy pulling it up and bringing it down, you know.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

'I feel the time to be now come,' the Duchess explained, in a letter obviously drawn up by her own hand, 'that what has been done should be put to some test, that if anything has been done in error of judgment it may be corrected, and that the plan for the future should be open to consideration and revision....
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

The idol is set upon his seat of mats within a dark recess above the people's heads, and the curtain is drawn up before him. § 30.
— from The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

[222] I must not forget to tell you that as at this table there were musicians, so they were not those of the country, nor yet of the town of Mansoul; but they were the masters of the songs that were sung at the court of Shaddai.[223] Now after the feast was over, Emmanuel was for entertaining the town of Mansoul with some curious riddles of secrets drawn up by his Father's secretary, by the skill and wisdom of Shaddai; the like to these there is not in any kingdom.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

She wore a white hat, with a sweeping, white ostrich plume, which hid her face with the exception of a retreating chin and prominent, carmine lips; while a fat, unwieldy body was covered by a waist of Scotch plaid silk—lines and squares of black and primary colors—and a short, scant skirt of blue broadcloth that, drawn up by her knees, exposed small feet in white kid and heavy ankles.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

Treating the vote of November 15th as an act of rebellion on the part of those concerned in it, the King dissolved the Assembly (December 5th), and conferred upon Prussia a Constitution drawn up by his own advisers, with the promise that this Constitution should be subject to revision by the future representative body.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

"Oh!" she panted, as Le Breton drew up beside her.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

And yet your duffing Uncle Bob Has never told you what befell When all his team got out for blob.
— from More Cricket Songs by Norman Gale