Next day he obtained a wind in the right quarter, and about ten o’clock in the morning actually sailed into the harbour in the full view of the enemy, who looked on with amazement at his audacity.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Anon after Pellinore made him ready, and his lady, [and] rode toward Camelot; and as they came by the well there as the wounded knight was and the lady, there he found the knight, and the lady eaten with lions or wild beasts, all save the head, wherefore he made great sorrow, and wept passing sore, and said, Alas!
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

" Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Elliott were living comfortably and harmoniously in the green house.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG Our experience would lead us to quite an opposite conclusion.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Again, that the world is an animal, and that it is endued with reason, and life, and intellect, is affirmed by Chrysippus, in the first volume of his treatise on Providence, and by Apollodorus in his Natural Philosophy, and by Posidonius; and that it is an animal in this sense, as being an essence endued with life, and with sensation.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Those elected were Lucius Manlius Capitolinus, Quintus Antonius Merenda, Lucius Papirius Mugillanus.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

not the gentleman with the sword on.—Sir, I had rather play a Caprichio to Calliope herself, than draw my bow across my fiddle before that very man; and yet I’ll stake my Cremona to a Jew ’s trump, which is the greatest musical odds that ever were laid, that I will this moment stop three hundred and fifty leagues out of tune upon my fiddle, without punishing one single nerve that belongs to him—Twaddle diddle, tweddle diddle,—twiddle diddle,—twoddle diddle,— 58 twuddle diddle,——prut trut—krish—krash—krush.—I’ve undone you, Sir,—but you see he’s
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The ministers of the tyrant, by the orders, and in the presence, of their master, beat him on the neck with leather thongs armed at the extremities with lead; and when he fainted under the violence of the pain, he was removed in a close litter, to conceal his dying agonies from the eyes of the indignant city.
— 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

But lusty Enterprise, with looks of glee, Approached the drooping youth, as he would say, Come to the high woods and the hills with me, And cast thy sullen myrtle-wreath away.
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles

Unlike his brother, Lord Stowell clung fast to his literary friendships, as 'Dr. Scott of the Commons' priding himself more on his membership in the Literary Club than on his standing in the Prerogative Court; and as Lord Stowell evincing cordial respect for the successors of Reynolds and Malone, even when love of money had taken firm hold of his enfeebled mind.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

“Men are not like us females who love everything we love at all, with our whole hearts.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Ein wandernd Leben / Gefällt der freien Dichterbrust —A wandering life delights the free heart of the poet.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

[Pg 633] so ardently, that the glance of his eye was lighted with the flame of eternal fire, and that the fond words of love he spoke were hot breathings from the regions of the accursed.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The contest was altogether one-sided, for the English ships were both superior in speed and equipped with longer range artillery.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

His streaky hair was all down over his forehead and his eyes were like a couple of camp fires.
— from Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Time after time, each lead ended without location of the fabled damsel.
— from The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon

The stars and stripes were triced up above and around a picture of Washington, and he had painted a majestic eagle, with lightnings blazing from his beak and his foot just clasping the whole globe, which his wings overshadowed.
— from If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale