Accordingly, the multitude of those that therein perished exceeded all the destructions that either men or God ever brought upon the world; for, to speak only of what was publicly known, the Romans slew some of them, some they carried captives, and others they made a search for under ground, and when they found where they were, they broke up the ground and slew all they met with.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

" Forthwith uprose great Ajax the son of Telamon, as also mighty Diomed son of Tydeus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

How come they to dig up fish bones, shells, beams, ironworks, many fathoms under ground, and anchors in mountains far remote from all seas?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

C H A P. XXXVII W HICH shews, let your reverences and worships say what you will of it (for as for thinking ——all who do think—think pretty much alike both upon it and other matters)——Love is certainly, at least alphabetically speaking, one of the most A gitating B ewitching C onfounded D evilish affairs of life——the most E xtravagant F utilitous G alligaskinish H andy-dandyish
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

One part thereof shall fall upon Grangousier and his forces.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“So swelling surges, with a thundering roar, Driv’n on each others’ backs, insult the shore, Bound o’er the rocks, encroach upon the land, And far upon the beach heave up the sand; Then backward rapidly they take their way, Repulsed from upper ground, and seek the sea.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He might nevertheless have been so urbanely filling up gaps, at present, for the very reason that his instinct, sharper than the expression of his face, had sufficiently served him—made him aware of the thin ice, figuratively speaking, and of prolongations of tension, round about him, mostly foreign to the circles in which luxury was akin to virtue.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

The turkeys being small, and the pigs queer little creatures, all at large, and far away from the village, feeding upon grass and acorns in such places, and under such circumstances, as naturally led our men to suppose they were running wild, and that they had as much right to them as any one else, they hunted them as much for the fun of catching as for that of eating them.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Anschauungen und Gebräuche der deutschen Ewe-Neger,” Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten , v. Heft 4 (Berlin, 1892), p.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

The English forces under General Allenby were carrying everything before them.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

1 s. 6 d. German Ballads from Uhland, Goethe, and Schiller.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

He moved his forces under General Atkinson, and caught the Indians opposite the mouth of Upper Iowa r., as they were preparing to cross the Mississippi; the battle of Bad Axe was fought, the hostiles were defeated, and their organization was broken up.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

He went on: “The shock caused by the firing of this gun was distinctly perceptible five feet under ground at a distance of five miles, and the miniature earthquake thus created was clearly registered by the new seismograph at Kenilworth, the pendulum of which remained perfectly stationary during the firing of the smaller guns, or the passage of the most heavily laden trains or vehicles at very close quarters.”
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree by Louis Creswicke

This last expression of the Times has more particular reference to the expense incurred for Ireland, but will no doubt be acknowledged to be equally true as bearing upon the enormous general increase of convict expenditure; and the more I reflect on this subject, the more do I feel convinced that the employment of convict labour in the Rocky Mountains,[see Note 22 ] and at several other points of the Line of this proposed great National work, would produce a most beneficial result, as a means of reducing the amount of crime, as even an immediate saving of transport expense to England (unless indeed all distant penal settlements are to be finally abandoned),[see Notes 21 and 45 ] and as an ultimate great advantage both to her own commerce, and to that of her colonies; and here let it be recollected, that there is a feeling abroad “to force upon government and the legislature a bold and manly course in dealing with crime in general:” that the [Pg 13] magnificent prisons now built are considered “unjust to the labouring poor, whose humble dwelling, with coarse and scanty food, is mocked by the grandeur and beauty of the prison, as well as by the idle and comfortable entertainment within its wall;” and it has been remarked by a public journal in a warning voice, “to make prisons palaces is the way to turn palaces into prisons.”[see
— from A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' by Robert Carmichael-Smyth

And in the same Field, not far from these Urnes, many stones were found under ground, as also by careful separation of extraneous matter, composing and raking up the burnt bones with forks, observable in that notable lamp of Galuanus .
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir