"Carus," says he, "our dearest emperor, was confined by sickness to his bed, when a furious tempest arose in the camp.
— 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

For the rest of his vast and innumerable forces were too far off to answer so hasty a summons, being engaged under orders from him on distant expeditions to conquer divers countries and provinces.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And how is it possible to help losing a stronghold that is not relieved, above all when surrounded by a host of determined enemies in their own country?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

So Caius, who was mightily taken with Agrippa's obliging behavior, and on other accounts thinking it a dishonorable thing to be guilty of falsehood before so many witnesses, in points wherein he had with such alacrity forced Agrippa to become a petitioner, and that it would look as if he had already repented of what he had said, and because he greatly admired Agrippa's virtue, in not desiring him at all to augment his own dominions, either with larger revenues, or other authority, but took care of the public tranquillity, of the laws, and of the Divinity itself, he granted him what he had requested.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

all men aim at that which conveys to their minds an impression of good, and that men have no control over this impression, but that the End impresses each with a notion correspondent to his own individual character; that to be sure if each man is in a way the cause of his own moral state, so he will be also of the kind of impression he receives: whereas, if this is not so, no one is the cause to himself of doing evil actions, but he does them by reason of ignorance of the true End, supposing that through their means he will secure the chief good.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

In the end, when four years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second time to our little town to settle up once for all with his father, it turned out to his amazement that he had nothing, that it was difficult to get an account even, that he had received the whole value of his property in sums of money from Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was perhaps even in debt to him, that by various agreements into which he had, of his own desire, entered at various previous dates, he had no right to expect anything more, and so on, and so on.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, always brought the tears to his old, dim eyes.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This will account for the fact that many miserable hours of despondency elapsed after my last adventure with the phosphorus, before the thought suggested itself that I had examined only one side of the paper.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

'Send me away somewhere.' "'What would happen to the young man then?' said I.' He is now in the seventh heaven of delight, expecting that his long cherished desire would be fulfilled to-morrow; and to-day you want me to send him the news of your death.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Hence, on death, everyone goes the way of his love, the man in a good love to heaven, and the man in an evil love to hell, nor does he rest except in that society where his ruling love is.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

Here is the house—the home of Dr. Epps—used by General Grant as his headquarters during the operations from the south side of the James against Petersburg and Lee's army in 1864-65.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook

By dint of rubbing in handfuls of dry earth, every trace of the eggs, half-incubated as they were, was hidden.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

Hyoscyamus, one dram; ext.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

If any one is desirous of carrying out in detail the Platonic education of after-life, some such counsels as the following may be offered to him:—That he shall choose the branch of knowledge to which his own mind most distinctly inclines, and in which he takes the greatest delight, either one which seems to connect with his own daily employment, or, perhaps, furnishes the greatest contrast to it.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He’s as set and slow and stubborn as his old dad ever was.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

He could not bring himself to say a word to her of direct encouragement, but he kissed her before she went, telling her that she was a good girl, and bidding her have no care as to the house in the Kleinseite.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

There is as little doubt that many of them would soon acquire the means of doing so (men who amass, during hours of daily extra labour, through years of unpaid toil, the means of buying themselves from their masters, would soon justify their freedom by the intelligent improvement of their condition), as that many of the present landholders would be ready and glad to alienate their impoverished estates by parcels, and sell the land which has become comparatively unprofitable to them, to its enfranchised cultivators.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble