Then, whilst all were struck with astonishment, after he had attracted the eyes of all to himself, he both afforded the consul time to draw off his army to more advantageous ground, and he himself was posted on the top of the hill.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

If, however, the bitten person seems to be seriously affected by the poison you have allowed to escape into his body, you must not loosen the bandage again, but leave it in place and take the chance of mortification.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It was now August, and there had been no mention of the Spanish journey to which he had alluded to Edith, and Margaret tried to reconcile herself to the fading away of this illusion.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Their legs are so hard as to encourage the idea that they must have devoted the greater part of their long and arduous lives to pedestrian exercises and the walking of matches.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So, our own coach coming for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife to read to me out of “The Siege of Rhodes,” and so to supper, and to bed. 20th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up, and to my great content visited betimes by Mr. Woolly, my uncle Wight’s cozen, who comes to see what work I have for him about these East India goods, and I do find that this fellow might have been of great use, and hereafter may be of very great use to me, in this trade of prize goods, and glad I am fully of his coming hither.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[ Vienne was a very ancient city of the province of Narbonne, famous in ecclesiastical history as the early seat of a bishopric in Gaul.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He had abandoned the etiquette books, falling back upon observation to show him the right things to do.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

As soon as Cogatai, who had halted at the entrance, beheld this, he shouted "Treason!" and instantly discharged an arrow at Vanchu and shot him dead as he sat.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

what is impossible or baseless or vague—after you have once just open'd the space of a peach-pit, and given audience to far and near, and to the sunset, and had all things enter with electric swiftness, softly and duly, without confusion or jostling or jam?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

[5] "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed on the consideration of every part of the army, that it has been a strict observance of order, discipline, and military system, which has given the full energy to the native valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the superiority of the national military character, in situations uncommonly arduous, and under circumstances of peculiar difficulty."— General Orders in 1801.
— from Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848 by Richard Cannon

The Captain, being a blunt honest, straightforward man, could not understand this state of matters, and fell into a fit of abstracted perplexity on the sofa beside Mrs Stoutley, who listened listlessly to the Russian Professor as he attempted to explain to her and Emma the nature of a glacier.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

About six o’clock we saw the power dinghy snort ashore and come back with Mr. House, and then everybody went below, and so did we when Rameses III called supper.
— from Catty Atkins, Sailorman by Clarence Budington Kelland

[2] (p. xii) At moments like these I have had ideas on native policy that I dare not utter in the latitude of Exeter Hall, and the era of the nineteenth century.
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning

"You had arrived there earlier in the evening, and had made your way across the metals to Polegate Junction, where you joined the train.
— from The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace

At the bottom, it had an opening of about 15 feet in diameter, around which was a gallery of wicker-work, three feet broad, with a balustrade all around the outer edge, of the same material, three feet high; and, to enable the aeronauts to increase or diminish at pleasure the rarified state of the air within, it was provided with an iron brazier, intended for a fire, which could easily be regulated as necessity required.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

Will Lightfoot, holding a dagger in his left hand and a broken sword in his right, came up to the improvised fortress with an easy stride, for his name well suited him amid the encouraging shouts of his friends.
— from The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

In the opinion of the other scientists of the Expedition, this seemed to indicate that we had attained the extraordinary altitude of two hundred thousand feet above sea-level.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Here are six “flats” of rooms, all abundantly lighted, and yet the front has been laid out in such a way that it has all the elements of a very imposing and stately structure.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

Humiliated, if not disgraced, the home-team players trailed to the field-house with hanging heads, averting their eyes from the sight of Loring’s triumphal march around the gridiron.
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour