A great many were overtaken in the pursuit by the swift-footed and light-armed Aetolians, and fell beneath their javelins; the greater number however missed their road and rushed into the wood, which had no ways out, and which was soon fired and burnt round them by the enemy.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Nov. 10th, she ply’d to Windward as far as Bassam , rather as an Airing to recover a sickly Ship’s Company, and shew herself to the Trade, which was found every where undisturb’d, and were, for that Reason, returning to her Consort, when accidently meeting a Portuguese Ship, she told her, that the Day before she saw two Ships Chace into Junk , an English Vessel, which she believed must have fallen into their Hands.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The woman Cassy—for it was she,—set down her lantern, and, pouring water from a bottle, raised his head, and gave him drink.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

And this is true not only of those who are classified by their friends as being respectively imaginative or unimaginative, but of those whose gifts or habits are not well known.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

And I can tell you I felt a bit relieved to see things turning out so well, in spite of the weight on my shoulders and feet.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As [3668] he said of that great river Danube, it riseth from a small fountain, a little brook at first, sometimes broad, sometimes narrow, now slow, then swift, increased at last to an incredible greatness by the confluence of sixty navigable rivers, it vanisheth in conclusion, loseth his name, and is suddenly swallowed up of the Euxine sea: I may say of our greatest families, they were mean at first, augmented by rich marriages, purchases, offices, they continue for some ages, with some little alteration of circumstances, fortunes, places, &c., by some prodigal son, for some default, or for want of issue they are defaced in an instant, and their memory blotted out.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

At Centreville, on the 18th, Richardson's brigade was sent by General Tyler to reconnoitre Blackburn's Ford across Bull Run, and he found it strongly guarded.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Don't follow any blind rules.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

The winding track at length led him into a deep valley, down which flowed a broad river whose glistening waters rippled laughingly over a shallow bed of grey boulders.
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

Just as that which was past was ineluctable memory and stored in him still, and this storage of the replicas to the incidents of his life could never be made right as it was all distant and unalterable and as feral as brothers running along the banks and sand bars of the Chao Phraya River, he would always be under impulses to avoid the painful past by clogging his mind in amusements or urgencies of interaction with other beings.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills

Under these circumstances the witches had recourse to the stoats and polecats, who were a fierce and bloodthirsty race, and might be of essential service if they could be persuaded to undertake the matter.
— from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron

It was impossible to feel anything but regret that he sat convicted of such pitiful fraud and falsity.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Before reaching home, she had freed Mrs. Wititterly’s soul from all bodily restraint; married Kate with great splendour at St George’s, Hanover Square; and only left undecided the minor question, whether a splendid French-polished mahogany bedstead should be erected for herself in the two-pair back of the house in Cadogan Place, or in the three-pair front: between which apartments she could not quite balance the advantages, and therefore adjusted the question at last, by determining to leave it to the decision of her son-in-law.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

, 102-103 , 493-494 ; Sentiment, 26-28 , 77 ; Sentiments, ( a ) difficulties of admitting or rejecting them as motives, 365-367 [523] , ( b ) theory of their derivation from experiences of pleasure and pain, 461 , 462 ; and Quasi-moral Sentiments, 28 , 173 , 174 ; Motive, 77 , 204 seq. , 223 ; Motive, varying forms of:—( a ) Reverence for Authority, ( b ) Religious Sentiment, ( c ) Self-respect, ( d ) sentiment of Freedom, ( e ) Admiration or Aspiration, 39-40 ; instincts and crude Utilitarian reasonings—discrepancy between, 466 , 467 ; Intuitions, 211-216 passim ; Intuitions, existence of, 211 , 212 , 337 ; Intuitions, connexion between ( a ) Existence and Origin of, 211 , 212 , ( b ) Origin and Validity of, 34 note 1, 212-213 , 212 note 2, 214 ; Intuitions, Particular and General, 99-102 , 214-216 ; Rules, imperative and indicative forms of, 101 note 1; Rules and Axioms, importance of, 229 ; Axioms, abstract but significant, 379-384 , 505 ; Axioms, Kant’s view of, 385-386 , 386 notes 1 and 2; Maxims, 337-361 passim ; Maxims which are , and which are not , directly self-evident, distinction between, 383 ; Responsibility, 59-60 ; Obligation, 217 ; and non-moral excellence distinguished, 426 , 427 ‘Moral’ (in narrower sense) and ‘Prudential’ distinguished, 25-26 Moral Courage, 333 note 3 Moral Philosophy, some problems of modern, 374 Morality—‘inductive’ and ‘intuitive,’ double ambiguity of antithesis between, 97-99 ; a priori and a posteriori (or inductive and intuitive), 97 ; and growth of Sympathy, 455-456 , 455 note 1 Morality of Common Sense (Intuitionism), 85 , 102 , 229 , 263 Note, 337-361 passim ; and Positive Morality, 215 ; and Egoism, 498-499 (cf. Happiness and Duty ); development of, not perfectly Utilitarian, 455-456 ; axiomatic character of its maxims questioned, 338 , 342 , 343 ; furnishes valuable practical rules but not ultimate axioms, 360 , 361 ; and Utilitarianism, 361 note 1, 423-457 passim , 461 , 498 , 499 ; first principles of, as “middle axioms” of Utilitarianism, 461 ; Mill’s view of, 461 note 1; not to be accepted by Utilitarianism without modification, 461 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

From a bare record of facts contemplate we now our planet as it must have been when inhabited by the monstrous birds and reptiles and quadrupeds which preceded the advent of man.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE RAID.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The same prince testified his esteem for the fine arts, by riding forth in state from his capital, to welcome the arrival of Zaryab, a far-famed musician, whom the jealousy of a rival had driven from Bagdad, and who founded in Spain a famous school of music; and in his convivial habits, and the freedom which he allowed to the companions of his festive hours, his character accords with that assigned in the Thousand and One Nights , though not in the page of history, to Haroon-Al-Rasheed.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various