As the two young men walked on through the crowd Corley occasionally turned to smile at some of the passing girls but Lenehan’s gaze was fixed on the large faint moon circled with a double halo.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Now Antigonus besought Machaerus, who was their general, by letter, to come to his assistance, and made a great many mournful complaints about Herod's violence, and about the injuries he did to the kingdom; and promised to give him money for such his assistance; but he complied not with his invitation to betray his trust, for he did not contemn him that sent him, especially while Herod gave him more money [than the other offered].
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Before his lords his plan he laid, And bade them with their wisdom aid: Then with these words Sumantra, best Of royal counsellors, addressed: “Hither, Vaśishṭha at their head, Let all my priestly guides be led.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

p. 86-88, and the two Panegyrics, the former of which was pronounced a few months afterwards, afford the clearest notion of this great battle. Lactantius, Eusebius, and even the Epitomes, supply several useful hints.
— 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

Up, and with Mr. Andrews to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier, and there I did our victuallers’ business for some more money, out of which I hope to get a little, of which I was glad; but, Lord!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For good things should come suddenly, 119 THE GRIMSEL BEGINS like the demise of that wicked man, Mr (deleted by the censor), who had oppressed the poor for some forty years, when he was shot dead from behind a hedge, and died in about the time it takes to boil an egg, and there was an end of him.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

Beyond this the framers of the [Pg 233] Joint Report did not propose to go; but Lord Southborough’s Committee recommend separate electorates, where the numbers justify that course, for Indian Christians, Europeans, and the domiciled “Anglo-Indians”— i.e. , country-born Europeans and Eurasians.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

If we go by Lempriere. SPAR.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

All men, however, have not souls capable of a separate existence, only the Egi or nobles, possess a spiritual part, which goes to Bolotoo, the land of gods and ghosts, after death, and enjoys "power similar to that of the original gods, but less".
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Such blood is squeezed from beef and poured by the gallon by loving hands into the willing lips of consumptives and anæmics!
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

"The conquest of Ireland was not much older than Cæsar's time, if it were not a good bit later, and was the first influx of civilization rude, indeed, but much superior to that of the Hiberni."— Irish Nennius , translated by J. H. Todd, D.D., Appendix C. [233] The principal one of these is the rath of Queen Meave, at some distance off.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

and we all looked up, and there was a great big long bag of a thing coming right toward us, not very high up, and Uncle Silas spoke up and said 'That's a balloon,' for Uncle Silas had seen one in town when he was there visiting Cousin Glenwood, and the hired man, too.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-in Book being a continuation of the stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

I am greedy of the faintest rumor, though it were got by listening at the keyhole.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

After having worked with this master about three years, I well recollect, a neighbouring gentleman brought Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding to be bound.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The great bear looked down, and patting the little fellow on the head, remarked, with a broad grateful smile, that he was a dear wee boy, fit to be at the head of his class, if for kindness only.
— from The Fairy School of Castle Frank by Grant Balfour