Now this great body, with so many fronts, and so many motions, which seems to threaten heaven and earth:— Quam multi Lybico volvuntur marmore fluctus, Svus ubi Orion hibemis conditur undis, Vel quam solo novo dens torrentur Arist, Aut Hermi campo, aut Lyci flaventibus arvis; Scuta sonant, pulsuque pedum tremit excita tellus: “Not thicker billows beat the Lybian main, When pale Orion sits in wintry rain; Nor thicker harvests on rich Hermus rise, Or Lycian fields, when Phobus burns the skies, Than stand these troops: their bucklers ring around; Their trampling turns the turf and shakes the solid ground:” this furious monster, with so many heads and arms, is yet man—feeble, calamitous, and miserable man!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Accordingly, she let fetch the proper instruments and sent every one forth of the chamber, except only Lusca; after which, locking herself in, she made Nicostratus lie down on a table and thrusting the pincers into his mouth, what while the maid held him fast, she pulled out one of his teeth by main force, albeit he roared out lustily for the pain.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Close at hand they had reserves of living forces accumulated in the sacred rocks, so they utilized them; since the blood of the men was of the same nature as that of the animal, they used it for the same purpose and shed it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I was furious with everything, but having received one look from her beautiful eyes I could not withstand her sorrow any longer, and said, “Calm yourself, mademoiselle.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Whether he traces the progress of hostile religions, or leads from the shores of the Baltic, or the verge of the Chinese empire, the successive hosts of barbarians—though one wave has hardly burst and discharged itself, before another swells up and approaches—all is made to flow in the same direction, and the impression which each makes upon the tottering fabric of the Roman greatness, connects their distant movements, and measures the relative importance assigned to them in the panoramic history.
— 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

Not thicker billows beat the Libyan main, When pale Orion sets in wintry rain; Nor thicker harvests on rich Hermus rise, Or Lycian fields, when Phoebus burns the skies, Than stand these troops: their bucklers ring around; Their trampling turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

General Stoneman was so late in making his start on this expedition (and Sherman having passed out of the State of South Carolina), on the 27th of February I directed General Thomas to change his course, and order him to repeat his raid of last fall, destroying the railroad towards Lynchburg as far as he could.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

'Brougham is not here; he appears to have retired of late from public life.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 2, August 1837 by Various

I holloared, "round our left flank and pursue them to the devil!"
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

In very ancient times five players a side used often to contend at single wicket, and in this sort of match there are no bounds, though the batsman must have his right or left foot on the ground behind the popping crease when the ball is hit.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

Next day he met his friend Captain H—— returning on leave from Malta to England.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

I heard one man say as he rode off leading four horses that he had paid one hundred and twenty-five dollars apiece for, that he had made a bargain, as he would not take two hundred dollars for the worst-looking one.
— from Capt. W. F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts, As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Wild West of Fifty Years Ago by William F. Drannan

Moses had thrown upon him all the heavy responsibilities of leadership: “Fear not, nor be dismayed.”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

In return Roger had received one letter from his father and another from his mother, and Dave had gotten communications from his sister Laura and from Jessie, and also a long letter from Ben.
— from Dave Porter and His Double; Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer