It was in Spain that Scipio, like Wellington, successively encountered and overthrew nearly all the subordinate generals of the enemy before being opposed to the chief champion and conqueror himself.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He pulled out some hairs, and gave one to each to hold firmly on the third finger.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Of his former domestics, four only were permitted to attend him; two pages, his physician, and his librarian; the last of whom was employed in the care of a valuable collection of books, the gift of the empress, who studied the inclinations as well as the interest of her friend.
— 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

And when the driver and the fireman had got off the engine and Peter and Phyllis had gone to meet them and pour out their excited tale of the awful mound just round the corner, Bobbie still waved the flags but more and more feebly and jerkily.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The necessity of preventing the most mischievous confusion, in such a perpetual concourse of men and animals, must gradually introduce, in the distribution, the order, and the guard, of the encampment, the rudiments of the military art.
— 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

Then he went out and locked the gates of the enclosure.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At length, after a long and painful pilgrimage, he found a place of refuge in the grove of the Eumenides (at Colonus, near Athens), where his last moments were soothed and tended by the care and devotion of the faithful Antigone.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Had it been any one else, would I have cared whether she had given offence to even ten; that would have been none of my business!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The third and fourth of these schools, however, do not represent different recensions of the text, the sole distinction between them and the Çākalas having been that the Āçvalāyanas recognised as canonical the group of the eleven Vālakhilya or supplementary hymns, and the Çānkhāyanas admitted the same group, diminished only by a few verses.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[209] Pierre Antoine Comte Dupont de L'Étang (1765-1840), had been one of the most brilliant generals of the Empire, but was cashiered for his capitulation at Baylen (1808), and kept in prison until 1814.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

New Jersey afforded some highly interesting sections of rocks belonging to the Cretaceous system, for these, though in mineral character resembling the greensands on the eastern side of the Atlantic, contained fossils which corresponded more closely with those of the white chalk, some species being actually identical.
— from Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney

Leaning back in the mouldy vehicle, she set her mind to go over the events of the last few hours.
— from The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford

In Die Erdgeist , the theme of which is the baleful glamour of the "Evil Woman," three of the four acts are punctuated with almost complete regularity by a death; Frühlingserwachen , again, deals with hoydens and hobbledehoys, whose only occupation appears to be the creation, discussion, and destruction of life:
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

These corals belong to the genus Astrangia , and have been named by Professor Agassiz, in honour of Professor Dana, geologist of the exploring expedition, Astrangia Dana.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

The gracefulness of the elms, the maples, the birches, the beeches, and the hornbeams is preserved and even intensified; the clumsy ramage of the butternut and ash is as stiff as ever, though every unbending twig bears its row of glittering pendants.
— from In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland Evans Robinson

When he reached Nice, he found an army minus food, [Pg 74] minus clothing, minus shoes, striving with great difficulty to keep to its posts, facing 60,000 Austrian troops and the most famous generals of the empire.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

The hunger of the invaders satisfied, each provided himself with a sack to feed the waiting comrades; and while this was going on they extracted from the now reassured negroes that the spot was just behind Warick Creek, near Lee's Mills; that parties of rebels from the fort at Yorktown had been at work building lines of earthworks, and that every now and then Yankees came across and skirmished in the woods a mile or two up in the direction whence Jack had come.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

On the other, the palms and thick undergrowth hardly veil the vivid gleam of the emerald lagoon lying within the white-toothed barrier reef, where all day long the surf of the great Pacific creams and froths and pours.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw