So the ship ran on its course and came to Arena and lovely Argyphea and Thryon, the ford of Alpheus, and well-placed Aepy and sandy Pylos and the men of Pylos; past Cruni it went and Chalcis and past Dyme and fair Elis, where the Epei rule.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

There were free-trade clubs after 1868, though few ever wanted to establish real free trade.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

But the period of the body might also be less than that of the earth, provided it were some aliquot part of a year , so as to revolve just twice, or three times, for example, while the earth revolves once.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

If it reminds us of anything, it is of the early romantic work of Byron, who was the first Englishman whom the East really inspired, and who painted with singular poetic power the dark unbridled passion of its souls of fire—‘with whom revenge was virtue.’
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 2 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

And so for days we pushed on incessantly, often going many miles out of our course to visit one of the many pans we now came across frequently, but failing in every case to find enough water to even replenish our water-skin.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell