As to the famous passage produced here by Dr. Bernard, out of Herodotus, as the most ancient heathen testimony of the Israelites coming from the Red Sea into Palestine, Bishop Cumberland has shown that it belongs to the old Canaanite or Phoenician shepherds, and their retiring out of Egypt into Canaan or Phoenicia, long before the days of Moses.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It was at this moment that Fyodor Pavlovitch played his last prank.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the people of Ephesus were planning to build the temple of Diana in marble, and debating whether to get the marble from Paros, Proconnesus, Heraclea, or Thasos, Pixodorus drove out his sheep and was feeding his flock in that very spot.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

For the amende honorable in figuris --that is to say, in public--the condemned, in his shirt, barefooted, the rope round his neck, followed by the executioner, and holding in his hand a wax taper, with a weight, which was definitely specified in the sentence which had been passed upon him, but which was generally of two or four pounds, prostrated himself at the door of a church, where in a loud voice he had to confess his sin, and to beg the pardon of God and man.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

II DISHES OF FISH, VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND SO FORTH PATINÆ PISCIUM, HOLERUM & POMORUM
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He said he knew he was a thief from that fact, for it was exactly the sum he had lost and which Father Peter pretended he had “found.”
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

For practical purposes, his employer was a slave trader—or would have been if the natives were human.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

"Well, in the first place, Pete," Harry began, "you will be glad to hear that we have struck it rich—the biggest thing I have ever seen.
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

A. F. Pollard: Political History of England 1547-1603 .
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

He has not counted it; but when they have gone a few paces beyond the box for poor Prisoners, he hastily returns and drops it in.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

At present any of the inhabitants can seize the maroons and the proprietor of the slave pays four piastres per head, besides the food.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

For billet or note-paper, some new styles of fine Parisian papers have just been introduced, and, for the extreme neatness of the design, or figure, in the paper, have become very fashionable.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

She was right; Franz proudly presented his blonde and buxom bride, and she was hardly kissed and blessed when Emil led up his bonny English Mary, with the rapturous announcement: 'Uncle, Aunt Jo, here's another daughter!
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

We wants that fellow here, as John Bull has a great deal of fighting to do, and as there is a colored Captain in this city, I would seek to have that fellow Promoted, Provided he became a soldier.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Dividing the length of road occupied by houses by the total number of the inhabitants of the town, the average length of road per head was 4.37 ft, and assuming five people per house and one house on each side of the road we get ten people per two houses opposite each other.
— from The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry Charles Adams