The thirty adventurers lay in ambush at the foot of the hill; and Dames at length succeeded in his inquiries, though he was provoked by the ignorance of his Greek captives.
— 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 King asked sharply— “Since when is he a duke, and Lord Protector?”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Homo homini aut deus aut lupus —Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

After a war of thirty years, Roger, with the title of great count, obtained the sovereignty of the largest and most fruitful island of the Mediterranean; and his administration displays a liberal and enlightened mind, above the limits of his age and education.
— 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 if my good intentions deserve to be acknowledged with any kind of courtesy, I entreat you, senor, by that which I perceive you possess in so high a degree, and likewise conjure you by whatever you love or have loved best in life, to tell me who you are and the cause that has brought you to live or die in these solitudes like a brute beast, dwelling among them in a manner so foreign to your condition as your garb and appearance show.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Staid half a day and left.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In the same way they draw the lines on the other sides of the Praetorium in accordance with the plan which I have already detailed at length.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He also despatched a letter to Cleomenes, who was a bad man and had committed many 416 acts of injustice in Egypt.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

‘Tis a contract to which the common saying: “Homo homini aut deus aut lupus,” [“Man to man is either a god or a wolf.”—Erasmus, Adag.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It was not until the occasion of Voltaire’s triumphant visit to Paris, after an absence of seven-and-twenty years, that he and Diderot at length met.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

Flagella and basal bodies are present in the tentacles, but I could not determine that the basal bodies had any definite arrangement like that shown in Fig.
— from Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology by E. W. (Edward William) Berger

" "Oh, by all means," cried the colonel, who saw the danger of an embarrassing rupture between the families, otherwise: "delicacy to your sex particularly requires that, ma'am, from your son;" and he accidentally dropped a letter as he spoke.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

He explained to them exactly the steps which had been taken, and his opinion as to the true state of things; and bade them think the matter over in every light, and to come to him at daybreak, and let him know if any plan for the conduct of the search had occurred to them.
— from The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In one spot, a few yards out but high and dry at low water, were the remains of an old hulk, whose wooden ribs stood out weirdly like the skeleton of some huge sea-beast.
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

As he raised himself, and drew a long breath of relief, the words of his deliverer seemed to start up before him in letters of fire— “Use your freedom to escape from death—but much more, to escape from sin .”
— from Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Strange to say, though the oldest amongst us was under thirty, not half a dozen are living; most of them died in the prime of life.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

Well, suppose the Government decorates me for what I have already done, and lets some other folks continue the course!"
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola