It is Frode, too (though Saxo has carved a number of Frodes out of one or two kings of gigantic personality), that made the Saxons pay a poll-tax, a piece of money per head, using, like William the Conqueror, his extraordinary revenue to reward his soldiers, whom he first regaled with double pay.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

They saw the boys still dancing around the townhouse, and as they watched they noticed that their feet were off the earth, and that with every round they rose higher and higher in the air.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This member of the faculty was aged fifty, about five feet high, and ten round the belly; his face was as capacious as a full moon, and much of the complexion of a mulberry: his nose, resembling a powder-horn, was swelled to an enormous size, and studded all over with carbuncles; and his little gray eyes reflected the rays in such an oblique manner that, while he looked a person full in the face, one would have imagined he was admiring the buckle of his shoe.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Only this enforcement restrains the rovings of that freedom, through Thy laws, O my God, Thy laws, from the master's cane to the martyr's trials, being able to temper for us a wholesome bitter, recalling us to Thyself from that deadly pleasure which lures us from Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The 1st ed. reads "torches ray" and supply;" corrected in the Errata to read as in the text.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

No, don Juan, en poder mío Don Juan, it’s no longer in me resistirte no está ya: to own the power to resist you: no, yo voy a ti como va I turn to you as the river flows sorbido al mar ese río. that runs down to the sea.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

we have made use of every remidy to restore him without it's haveing the desired effect.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It was for thee that young Sarpedôn died, And Memnôn’s manhood was untimely spent; It was for thee gold-crested Hector tried With Thetis’ child that evil race to run, In the last year of thy beleaguerment; Ay!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

It happened that Mettus was then fighting on horseback; he was on that account the more easily repulsed: the Romans pursue him when repulsed: and the rest of the Roman army, encouraged by the gallant behaviour of their king, routs the Sabines.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The remainder of the business before the assembly was hurried through, and then old Nathanson, the white-bearded dean of the left wing of the Socialist Revolutionaries, his voice trembling and tears in his eyes, read the report of the “wedding” of the Peasants’ Soviets with the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Soviets.
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

'As I read of what you say so wisely and truly, and dear Joan and Fan and Aunt James and all, of my having expected results too rapidly at Mota, I had sitting with me that dear boy Tagalana, who for two months last winter was in the great sacred enclosure, though, dear lad, not by his own will, yet his faith was weak, and no wonder.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Failing access to gopher, send your email requests to roswell@fox.nstn.ns.ca .
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Because the report was untraceable it was the more disquieting, and the Stock-Exchange is ever ready to rock to an alarm.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

He asked him what he supposed to be the meaning of the expression, "ripin the ribs [51] ."
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Adverse events reveal the real man, So Horace wrote, refute this truth who can.
— from Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees by Wilhelm Busch

He had every reason to regard England as the best place in which to live.
— from Handel by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) Dent

[Pg 177] LONDON AND ITS GOVERNMENT Growth and expansion rather than reconstruction was the leading feature of London in the period with which we are now concerned.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves