Full of eagerness therefore for success, Bolis set sail without delay, taking with him a letter in cipher and other credentials addressed to Nicomachus at Rhodes, who was believed to entertain a fatherly affection and devotion for Achaeus, and also to Melancomas at Ephesus; for these were the men formerly employed by Achaeus in his negotiations with Ptolemy, and in all other foreign affairs.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted, I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The fibres having this power over the blood, bile, which is only stale blood, and which from being flesh is dissolved again into blood, at the first influx coming in little by little, hot and liquid, is congealed by the power of the fibres; and so congealing and made to cool, it produces internal cold and shuddering.
— from Timaeus by Plato

1 When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb,
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

A beautiful woman shoots her absconding lover in cold-blood; and we shall doubtless learn in due time that if she was not as mad as a hare in this month of March, she was at least laboring under what is termed “momentary insanity.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

And though at the first I found their meaning hard, at last I compre
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men hold a legion in check.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

hulyut a lax in carrying out a course of action.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mareschal Richelieu, with eighty battalions and an hundred squadrons, entered the country of Halberstadt, and levied immense contributions; whilst the allied army of the French and Imperialists, being joined by six thousand men under general Laudohn, who had just defeated a regiment of Prussian cavalry near Erfurt, marched to Weissenfells, a city in the very centre of Thuringia.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Hulot, at last, ignoring Crevel, went on tiptoe to listen at the bedroom door; but he bounded back with a prodigious jump, for Marneffe opened the door and appeared with a calm face, astonished to find only the two men.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

She did not want to forget him, and living is cheap in Spain.
— from The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

Her love for Fernando Peres may have made her deviate from the path she should have followed as regent of Portugal, but it does not make her a less interesting character in the eyes of posterity.
— from The Story of the Nations: Portugal by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

,” said Archimage, “I am a squire, and I have a lady in charge to deliver her to her parents, but there is a certain evil-minded Knight who hinders me.
— from The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser by Alfred John Church

If I had a living I could marry....
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

He said: “You are beautiful,” and she really seemed so to him, and his naïve homage made her blush and gave her a little inner courage.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann

I had thought that as the quarry had been well worked already, and was now overrun with fugitive slaves and Nazarenes, and the like, to ferret out whom would require half a legion, I could offer to put the two hundred sestertia against it, so that you might chance to win them back.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

H2 anchor LETTER IX Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse.
— from The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah

Old Coyote mixes his p'isen with beef tallow, biles them ingredients up together a lot, an' then, while she's melted that a-way, he pours it into these yere auger holes an' lets it cool.
— from Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis