After dinner come several persons of honour, as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving of them salutes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

With voice repressed he breathed the prayer, Bathed duly in the river fair, And gave good offerings that remove The stain of sin, as texts approve.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

To the restitution of his ample patrimony, Theodosius added the free and generous gift of the countries beyond the Alps, which his successful valor had recovered from the assassin of Gratian.
— 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

A knotty lance of well-boil’d oak he bore; The middle part with cork he cover’d o’er: He clos’d the child within the hollow space; With twigs of bending osier bound the case; Then pois’d the spear, heavy with human weight, And thus invok’d my favour for the freight: ‘Accept, great goddess of the woods,’ he said, ‘Sent by her sire,
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

On the Friday, Mrs. Cameron, who by universal consent had constituted herself organizer of the various joint expeditions, sent out invitations for a grand gathering of the Clan to go and view the [295] ruins of the villa of Tiberius.
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

We demand the union of all Germans to form a Great Germany on the basis of the right of the self-determination enjoyed by nations.
— from Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various

Son of Lieutenant-General Fielding and great grandson of the third Earl of Denbigh, was born at Sharpham, in Somersetshire.
— from Biographical Outlines: British History by Anonymous

Denmark and Finland supplied the natural background for the quaint fancies and growing genius of their gifted son, who was story-teller, [iv] playwright, and poet in one.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

First a greenish glow on the southern horizon, brightening into lemon and then into clear primrose, invades the deep purple of the starry heavens.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

He wore, not the garb of the noble Persian race, which, close and simple, was but a little less manly than that of the Greeks, but the flowing and gorgeous garments of the Mede.
— from Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters An Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Near the top of it is a cave, containing, it is said , a chest of money,—a great iron chest, so full, that when the sun shines bright upon it, the gold can be seen through the key-hole; but it has never yet been stolen, because, in the first place, a huge black cat (and wherever a black cat is there is mischief, you may be sure) guards the treasure, which bristles up, and, fixing a gashful gaze on the would-be marauder, with fiery eyes, seems ready to devour him if he approach within a dozen yards of the cave; and, secondly, whenever this creature is off guard, (and it has occasionally been seen in a neighbouring village,) and the treasure has been attempted to be withdrawn from its tomb, no mortal rope has been able to sustain its weight, each that has been tried invariably breaking when the coffer was at the very mouth of the cave; which, being endowed with the gift of locomotion, has immediately retrograded into its pristine situation!
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 by Various

To argue in this way is clearly not praiseworthy;" for as Galileo goes on to show, if the Scriptures are the word of God, the heavens themselves are his handiwork.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson

There is nothing that will more surely and quickly bring a stranger into the fellowship and good graces of the ladies than to join them in their pet habit of snuff-rubbing.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings