In the first place, Lycaon derided their pious supplications.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The objective being determined upon, the army will move toward it by one or two lines of operations, care being taken to conform to the fundamental principle laid down, and to avoid double lines, unless the character of the theater of war makes it necessary to use them, or the enemy is very inferior either in the number or the quality of his troops.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The fourth Princess Loque ( Dud ), as we guess, is already in the Nunnery, and can only give her orisons.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Vraca figui piu longui dun palmo et altri piu picoli piu ſaporiti et dui cochi alhora nõ haueuano alt o ne fecoro ſegni cõ La mano q̃ in fino aquatro giorni portarebenno vmay
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

O Monarch of the giants, well Upon my counsel think, Lest thou for ever in the hell Of Ráma's vengeance sink: A hell, where deadly shafts are sent From his tremendous-bow, While his great arms all flight prevent, Like deepest mire below: Where the wild floods of battle rave Above the foeman's head, And each with many a feathery wave Of shafts is garlanded.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He, far away, the chief who throws A glory o'er the marshalled rows That ranged behind their captain stand Exulting on the ocean strand, Is Vinata the fierce in fight, Preëminent like Dardur's height.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It was formed by a beam diffracted by passing through a netting of fine wire, or by reflection from a polished surface of steel, having fine parallel lines drawn on it.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

If you bring an answer back, that purse in your hand has a twin-brother, as like him as ever he can look; there are fifty pieces lie dormant in it, for more charities.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

Without professing to give the exact wording, I am able to say that the first principle laid down was the necessity of avoiding giving a friend the ram, or firing into him either by gun or torpedo.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore

{78} THE FIFTH CANTO G REAT bulk, huge mass, thesaurus; Ecbatan, the clock ticks and fades out; The bride awaiting the god’s touch; Ecbatan, City of patterned streets; again the vision: Down in the viae stradae, toga’d the crowd, and arm’d, Rushing on populous business, and from parapets Looked down—I looked, and thought: at North Was Egypt, and the celestial Nile, blue-deep, cutting low barren land, Old men and camels working the water-wheels; Measureless seas and stars, Iamblichus’ light, the souls ascending, Sparks, like a partridge covey, From the “ciocco,” brand struck in the game, “Et omniformis”: Air, fire, the pale soft light.
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound

More curious and suggestive is the citation, in the bye-going, by Jean le Bel, Canon of Liège, of a “history made by the said King Robert” ( en hystoire faitte par le dit roy Robert ), that is the King Robert whom, he tells us, Edward I. had chased by hounds in the forests.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

Friedmann, P. : Les Depêches de G. Michieli, 1554-1557.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright