So Joab, when he had thus overcome the enemy, returned with great joy to Jerusalem to the king.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

This constitution found many of the Peloponnesians ready enough to adopt it of their own accord: many were brought to share in it by persuasion and argument: some, though acting under compulsion at first, were quickly brought to acquiesce in its benefits; for none of the original members had any special privilege reserved for them, but equal rights were given to all comers: the object aimed at was therefore quickly attained by the two most unfailing expedients of equality and fraternity.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It was true that her early radiance was gone.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

We three walked along the excellent road which goes along the foot of the mountain.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But the old man doubted these advantages, while he could have no doubts as to the child's existence; and he replied with emphatic repetition, without giving any further explanation: “I will not have it!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

4 This fable, from the Aryan side, may be regarded as showing the reason of the evil repute which gathered around the name of Dehak or Zohak.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In the latter, as far as it meerly regards Conversation, the Person who neglects visiting an agreeable Friend is punished in the very Transgression; for a good Companion is not found in every Room we go into.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He and Elizabeth Russell were great cronies, all their lives, but they never had any notion of sweet-hearting.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He shall not win her without contest; yet, if he be victorious and escape death, and if the deathless gods who dwell on Olympus grant him to win renown, verily he shall return to his dear native land, and I will give him my dear child and strong, swift-footed horses besides which he shall lead home to be cherished possessions; and may he rejoice in heart possessing these, and ever remember with gladness the painful contest.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Certain European relatives, with golden or otherwise variegated foliage that looks sickly after the first resplendent outburst in spring, receive places of honor with monotonous frequency in American shrubbery borders.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

Thus nearly all the principal generals of the early Republic were guillotined.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 by Various

They may be brought low in the view of man, as in Israel's case on the present occasion, but faith ever recognizes what God has imparted; and hence David, as he beheld his poor brethren fainting in the view of their terrible enemy, was enabled to acknowledge those with whom the living God had identified Himself, and who ought not, therefore, to be defied by an uncircumcised Philistine.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

But the old man doubted these advantages, while he could have no doubts as to the child's existence; and he replied with emphatic repetition, without giving any further explanation: "I will not have it!
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant

The Empress remembered with great pleasure every detail of her visit to the East.
— from A Turkish Woman's European Impressions by hanoum Zeyneb

He even relates with grim humor an encounter with a girl of the streets who in pity offers to take him home with her although he has no money, while he simulates virtue to conceal his abject state: "I am Pastor So-and-so. Go away and sin no more."
— from Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen

Mrs. Brinkworth, a timid, dove-eyed, little wisp of a woman, with a clinging, pathetic, almost childish manner, her soft eyes red with grief, her mobile mouth a-quiver with pain, the marks of tears on her lovely little face; and, last of all, Colonel Murchison, heavy, bull-necked, ponderous of body, and purple of visage a living, breathing monument of Self.
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

1888 Emerson, Ralph W. Garnett, R. Life of Emerson 1888
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn