Now while this intestine war went on, and the subjects of the two kings came frequently to action and to fighting, it was Abner, the general of the host of Saul's son, who, by his prudence, and the great interest he had among the multitude, made them all continue with Ishbosheth; and indeed it was a considerable time that they continued of his party; but afterwards Abner was blamed, and an accusation was laid against him, that he went in unto Saul's concubine: her name was Rispah, the daughter of Aiah.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“That’s the kind we have! Make a note of that name.” “But, General,” objected the high official, seeing that the matter was taking a bad turn, “up to now nothing positive is known against these young men.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

He said, "I am by office governor of this House of Strangers, and by vocation I am a Christian priest: and therefore am come to you to offer you my service, both as strangers and chiefly as Christians.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Since the manager of the Free Speech has been run away from Memphis by the guardians of the honor of Southern white women, a young girl living on Poplar St., who was discovered in intimate relations with a handsome mulatto young colored man, Will Morgan by name, stole her father's money to send the young fellow away from that father's wrath.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Mr. Baring-Gould remarks on this that Seth was at first regarded by the Egyptians as the deity of light and civilisation, but that they afterwards identified as Typhon, because he was the chief god of the Hyksos or shepherd kings; and in their hatred of these oppressors the name of Seth was everywhere obliterated from their monuments, and he was represented as an ass, or with an ass’s head.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

l. i. tit. 13,) that under the government of the house of Severus, their provincial administration was abolished; and in the subsequent troubles, the annual or triennial elections of quaestors must have naturally ceased.
— 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

The glory of the house of Sassan ended with the life of Chosroes: his unnatural son enjoyed only eight months the fruit of his crimes: and in the space of four years, the regal title was assumed by nine candidates, who disputed, with the sword or dagger, the fragments of an exhausted monarchy.
— 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

Editha watched him until his massive figure was merged in the gloom of the heavy oak stairway.
— from The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

" It was in the fourth generation of the houses of Shirley and of Corotoman, and in the year 1723, that the families were united by the marriage of John, son of "King" Carter, and Elizabeth, daughter of the third Edward Hill.
— from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins

He felt it in the air, a dull inactive hostility, when talking to gentlefolks' coachmen or giving orders to his own servants.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

My experience is that you have never abused the privileges, or broken any of the rules which govern the press galleries of the House or Senate.
— from Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States Congress by George Barton

He was said to be a man of humble origin, the son of a gardener of the House of Seti; and now what do I learn through Ameni?
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XXIV THE GUESTS OF THE HERSIR OF SVITHJOD
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

The sight of the flashing gems on the hands of some of the summer visitors at the fishing village in which he lived had added a new article to the list of beautiful things his mother was some day to own.
— from Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories by Anonymous

The namesake and great-grandson of the hero of Szigetvár, he was himself a gallant soldier and famous poet, and has immortalized, in a grand Hungarian epic, the martyrdom of his heroic ancestor.
— from The story of Hungary by Ármin Vámbéry