The besieging force also fared hardly for stores and provisions, until relieved by the effects of a brilliant victory which Sir John Fastolfe, one of the best English generals, gained at Rouvrai, near Orleans, a few days after Ash Wednesday, 1429.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

How she wooed an Englishman? Garments gay and rich as may be, Decked with jewels, had she on.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

Thus, for example, Galen gives a recipe for the collyrium which Phlorus used in the case of Antonia, the mother of Drusus; for the “ collyrium Harmatium ,” which King Ptolemy used, etc.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

I believe one of our budding Hazlitts is preparing a volume to be entitled ‘Great Guildensterns and Remarkable Rosencrantzes,’
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

She suddenly made an enigmatic, emphatic exclamation, "Goodness gracious !" and reaching out her long arms, pulled Sylvia up on her lap, holding her close.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

His death excited great grief at Rome, where he was buried with solemnity in A.D. 20.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith

Instead of eating, Mrs. Duff kept her wonderful eyes going, going all round the table from one face to another.
— from Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends by Marshall Saunders