I am rather of the opinion of those who say that, on the taking of Corniculum, the wife of Servius Tullius, who had been the leading man in that city, being pregnant when her husband was slain, being known among the other female prisoners, and, in consequence of her high rank, exempted from servitude by the Roman queen, was delivered of a child at Rome, in the house of Tarquinius Priscus.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Were I in the cavalry I should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must always be the chief desire of everyone else.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In place of the manly toga, he donned the woman’s stola when he reached the age of puberty: he resolved, even from his mother’s womb, never to become a man; in the slave’s prison he took the woman’s part in the sexual act, he changed the instrument of his lechery when he double-crossed me, abandoned the ties of a long-standing friendship, and, shame upon him, sold everything for a single night’s dalliance, like any other street-walker!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Our answering Hell rolls eastward from St. Louis.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Finally, there was our host, with his rugged, eagle face, and his cold, blue, glacier eyes with always a shimmer of devilment and of humor down in the depths of them.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

These operations in distant waters, never intermitted, assumed greater activity and larger proportions after the destruction of the French navy had relieved England from the fear of invasion, and when the ill-advised entrance of Spain into the war, in 1762, offered yet richer prizes to her enterprise.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Here he received embassadors from Spain, France, and Burgundy, who had been sent by their several governments to congratulate him on his accession, and to pay him their homage.
— from Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

He retired eventually from public duties, and lived at Villa Ramusia, near Padua.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Commissioners were sent to the country to study the matter on the spot, where they had received every facility for acquainting themselves with it.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

Sibyl had not yet moved off, but was standing with her mouth slightly gaping and her round eyes full of horror.
— from Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade

In Helsingfors I was introduced at the British Consulate to an agent of the American Secret Service who had recently escaped from Russia.
— from Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul Dukes

Simon Peter, not waiting for an answer from Jesus, drew a sword which he had brought with him, and with it struck one of the high priest's servants; a man named Malchus, and cut off his right ear; for by this time the band had risen to their feet and were drawing near.
— from Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old A Complete Life of Christ Written in Simple Language, Based on the Gospel Narrative by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

He got to his feet and walked up and down the little room, his lips shut tight, his round eyes flaring.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

Tolly did not reply, for he had run eagerly forward to meet the trapper, having already recognised him.
— from Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Homme roux et femme barbue de cinquante pas les salue.
— from Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir