Torn by a Cur, a man was led To throw the snappish thief some bread Dipt in the blood, which, he was told, Had been a remedy of old.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

They spread from the suburbs of Constantinople to the Ionian Gulf, destroyed thirty-two cities or castles, erased Potidaea, which Athens had built, and Philip had besieged, and repassed the Danube, dragging at their horses' heels one hundred and twenty thousand of the subjects of Justinian.
— 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

wanting, which did occasion a very high falling out between us, I indeed too angrily insisting upon so poor a thing, and did give her very provoking high words, calling her beggar, and reproaching her friends, which she took very stomachfully and reproached me justly with mine; and I confess, being myself, I cannot see what she could have done less.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They caught me in a snare, as if I had been a rabbit, the dirty brutes, and they shoved my head into a bag.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He began a research program in 1804 that led to the development of a metal-cased, stick-guided artillery rocket that could be fired in barrages against enemy troops.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

No doubt it had been from jealousy.—In Jane's eyes she had been a rival; and well might any thing she could offer of assistance or regard be repulsed.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Violent and ambitious, he became a rebel, and sought by the influence of water to overcome that of wood [under which Nü Kua reigned].
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

[269] Then he pushed out his boat and rowed round the point of land.
— from Arne; Early Tales and Sketches Patriots Edition by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Schamyl's head-quarters continued for several years to be at Dargo, where aided by Polish deserters he built a residence somewhat superior in style to the houses generally seen in the eastern Caucasus.
— from Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie

I wish he would." Marco turned over on his bed and rose up on his elbow so that he faced The Rat on his sofa.
— from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When a masterly statesman, to whom America has erected a statue in her heart for his integrity, fortitude, and perseverance in her cause, invented a Committee of Correspondence in Boston, did not every colony, nay, every county, city, hundred, and town upon the whole continent adopt the measure as if it had been a revelation from above?
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

It has been a regular clean-up day with us.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne

But after a time Mr. Brownson found he had mistaken his church, and went over to the Roman Catholic establishment, of which he became and remained to his dying day one of the most stalwart champions.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Q. Didn't you have knowledge then that there had been a riot, or, at least, a disorderly crowd there, and wasn't it your duty then to protect those people? A.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

I inquired, glancing at her beautiful and refined face, which seemed to me just a trifle more careworn than when I had last met her eighteen months ago.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

There has been a revolution; and they are refugees.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

" "One moment!" She turned down the covers of her bed, and rumpled them.
— from Ramshackle House by Hulbert Footner