Note: Fallmerayer (Geschichte des Kaiserthums von Trapezunt, p. 6, &c) assigns a very ancient date to the first (Pelasgic) foundation of Trapezun (Trebizond)—M.]
— 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

Here is the racquet-court—four are playing racquets and four playing fives.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

To some great work, thy glory, 680 And peoples safety, which in part they effect: Yet toward these thus dignifi'd, thou oft Amidst thir highth of noon, Changest thy countenance, and thy hand with no regard Of highest favours past From thee on them, or them to thee of service.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive maids whom they themselves brought across the sea from their forays in Thrace; for the terrible wrath of Cypris came upon them, because for a long time they had grudged her the honours due.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

61 The nobles of France pressed forwards with the vain and thoughtless ardor of which their nation has been sometimes accused.
— 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

Comparative Superlative citerior , hither ( citimus , hithermost ) interior , inner ( intimus , inmost ) prior , former prîmus , first propior , nearer proximus , next, nearest ulterior , further ultimus , furthest 316.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Nor less on either side tempestuous fell His arrows, from the fourfold-visaged Four Distinct with eyes, and from the living wheels Distinct alike with multitude of eyes; One Spirit in them ruled; and every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered all their strength, And of their wonted vigour left them drained, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

There were four of them: Father Iosif and Father Païssy, Father Mihaïl, the warden of the hermitage, a man not very old and far from being learned.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

our Shoshonee Indian Guide employed himself makeing flint points for his arrows H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from thrashing around, famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of the animals; and crippled with rheumatism.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

She had a passion for order, for precision, for symmetry.
— from In Our Convent Days by Agnes Repplier

She turned to go upstairs, still feeling pity for him in the pain she had unavoidably caused him.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Lamme freely paid for drink for everyone, for his mother gave him three patards every Sunday and feast day.
— from The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles de Coster

Get up, this is no fit place for rest."
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

This arrangement gives a bright field and dark wires; but there is also a method of reversing matters; for near the edge of the ring-shaped reflector are fixed prisms for reflecting the light, and when the reflector is placed square with the axis of the telescope the small prisms on the reflector send the light down through apertures in the diaphragms, so that the mirror in this position no longer sends the light down with the rays from the star, but through holes in the diaphragms themselves, to two small reflecting prisms, one on each side of the wires in the eyepiece.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

From the United States had come large contributions of money and grain; and as, during the year after my arrival, there had been a recurrence of the famine, about forty thousand rubles more had been sent me from Philadelphia for distribution.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

"Still, I ask you, for my sake, to be more careful," says Lilian, anxiously, partly frightened, partly filled with remorse at his words, though in her heart she is vexed with him for having used them.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

At length he lay still in the centre of a bush that grew behind a stone not five paces from where they were talking, whence he listened intently to every word that passed their lips.
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard