Alexander had just passed through the Syrian gate in order to march against Darius, at the very time that Darius was descending into Cilicia by the Amanic gate, and occupying Issus with his advanced guard.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

But these people seem, in the first place, to be unaware that there are certain drugs for drawing out inflammation and different ones for drawing out embedded substances; and surely if it was on the cessation of an inflammation that the abnormal matters were expelled, then all drugs which disperse inflammations ought, ipso facto , to possess the power of extracting these substances as well.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Whether this whisper ever reached the father of the Marchioness, and, if it did, whether the difficulty of obtaining proof deterred him from prosecuting the Marquis de Villeroi, is uncertain; but her death was deeply lamented by some part of her family, and particularly by her brother, M. St. Aubert; for that was the degree of relationship, which had existed between Emily's father and the Marchioness; and there is no doubt, that he suspected the manner of her death.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Thence he proceeded to consider her various parts,—commending her hair, which he accounted of gold, her brow, her nose, her mouth, her throat and her arms, and above all her breast, as yet but little upraised,—and grown of a sudden from a churl a judge of beauty, he ardently desired in himself to see the eyes, which, weighed down with deep sleep, she kept closed.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"He would be wanting in wits, senora countess," said the duke, "who did not perceive your worth by your person, for at a glance it may be seen it deserves all the cream of courtesy and flower of polite usage;" and raising her up by the hand he led her to a seat beside the duchess, who likewise received her with great urbanity.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Increase of years only strengthened this folly: as she lost her relish for the pleasures of the world and youth, she replaced it by an additional fondness for secrets and projects; her house was never clear of quacks, contrivers of new manufactures, alchemists, projects of all kinds and of all descriptions, whose discourses began by a distribution of millions and concluded by giving you to understand that they were in want of a crown-piece.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh dem!’ ‘What do you want, man?’ demanded Ralph, sternly.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The consequence of a defeat was death to the person accused, or to the champion or witness, as well as to the accuser himself: but in civil cases, the demandant was punished with infamy and the loss of his suit, while his witness and champion suffered ignominious death.
— 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

“I DINED OUT to-day,” would express the same among the very lower classes that “dining with Duke Humphrey” expresses among the middle and upper.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Vinland and Greenland and the White Sea and the other Norse discoveries were discoveries made by a great race for itself; unconnected as they were with the main lines of trade or with religious sentiment, they were unrealised by the general consciousness of the West.
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

The cub, however, kept his distance, watching Dale with bright little eyes.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

The watchwords of the bloody-minded in that region, and in those days, were, "Damn the abolitionists!"
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Then will xy = sine of (AB + BC): for if upon OB as a diameter we describe a circle, it will manifestly pass through the points x and y , (since the angles
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various

One sunny day with Dick and Dot.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“And I want you to lay off on Skinner, because what he did was done in fear and trembling, and under duress.
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

If so, why was his body not found; if he was not dead, why did he not reappear on the scene.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth;
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

They confessed to each other that it was all as sweet and beautiful as it used to be; and in fact they had seen palaces, in other days, which did not give them the pleasure they found in a woodcutter's shanty, losing itself among the shadows in a solitude of the hills.
— from Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells

By the time the last crossing was made the storm was clearing and the day was drawing to a close.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer