His conquests were to endure for five centuries, until the Treaty of Berlin, in 1878: some of them have survived the cataclysm of the recent Balkan wars.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

The Scotts were at the time building engines for four corvettes under construction at the Woolwich and Deptford [51] yards for the British Navy; and the Admiralty agreed to have fitted in one of them water-tube boilers and engines similar to those built for the French boats.
— from Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

; Carries hersen like a queen when shoo drives to markit i' t' cart: Noan o' yon scraumy-legged(2) painters sal iver git howd o' her brass Picturs is reight enough for fowks cluttered up i' Leeds, Fowks that have ne'er hannled beasts, can't tell a tup frae a yowe ; But the art for coontry lads is the art that breathes an' feeds, An' t' finest gallery i' t' worrld is a Yorkshire cattle-show.
— from Songs of the Ridings by F. W. (Frederic William) Moorman

I, who knew Beetham well, and who though turned the hill of middle life had still an eye for female charms, used to declare to myself that Alice, though she was decidedly village and not county, was far, far away the prettiest girl in that part of the world.
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

There the light leaves heaven for earth; and walks the streets, with much else far from celestial, until the small hours move towards the dawn and usher in the decencies of day.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

The actual history of Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most tragic episodes of a struggle that lacerated the Roman Empire for four centuries, until it finally destroyed it, the struggle between Orient and Occident.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero

The present consul was sometimes employed in the front of the line, sometimes in keeping back the legions in reserve, that they might not, through eagerness for fighting, come up to the attack until the signal was given.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy