Now the Aiolians lost Smyrna in the following manner:—certain men of Colophon, who had been worsted in party strife and had been driven from their native city, were received there for refuge: and after this the Colophonian exiles watched for a time when the men of Smyrna were celebrating a festival to Dionysos outside the walls, and then they closed the gates against them and got possession of the city.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

For he came, as I plainly saw, And turned you over with his paw."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Cutting the great cable into pieces, such as I could move, I got two cables and a hawser on shore, with all the ironwork I could get; and having cut down the spritsail-yard, and the mizzen-yard, and everything I could, to make a large raft, I loaded it with all these heavy goods, and came away.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

I perceive such an ocean of troubles before me, that no means of escape remain.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“If that touch had not been thrown in,” said Don Quixote, “he would not deserve, for mere pimping, to row in the galleys, but rather to command and be admiral of them; for the office of pimp is no ordinary one, being the office of persons of discretion, one very necessary in a well-ordered state, and only to be exercised by persons of good birth; nay, there ought to be an inspector and overseer of them, as in other offices, and recognised number, as with the brokers on change; in this way many of the evils would be avoided which are caused by this office and calling being in the hands of stupid and ignorant people, such as women more or less silly, and pages and jesters of little standing and experience, who on the most urgent occasions, and when ingenuity of contrivance is needed, let the crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths, and know not which is their right hand.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lu
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is now changed.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Ubi iam iter modiolo impressum est, medius clavus educitur, et ille per se agitur: deinde, quum sanitas inferioris partis scobe cognita est, modiolus removetur.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The question is purely strategic, and is not of mere historical interest; it is of vital importance now, and the principles upon which its decision rests are the same now as then.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

While the Phenomenon continued in its primary state, as mere 'Horrors of the French Revolution,' there was abundance to be said and shrieked.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

On the whole it is probably not too much to assert that "Euchologion—a Book of Common Order," issued by the Church Service Society, is decidedly more liturgical in form than was the unfortunate Laud's Liturgy, which raised against itself and its projectors such a vigorous protest on the part of the Church of Scotland.
— from Presbyterian Worship: Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston

I put Silvia and Diogenes in the stern of the boat and pulled for the opposite shore.
— from Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

I hated it so, that I broke the man's head who was commissioned to teach me; and it produced such an effect on others, that nobody ever afterwards dared so much as shew me a book.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

“ I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 2, February, 1881 by Various

When they began, Iuri Pavlovitch sent at once for the lawyer.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

Here was the building in which they had discovered Professor Phineas Borrodaile, living alone in primitive surroundings and trying to imagine him self a troglodyte.
— from Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish

The Holy Rock was then cut into its present shape and covered with marble slabs, an altar being erected on it.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

Oh, Geneviève! where I am going I shall feel no storms—I shall be in perfect shelter, and at rest.'
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 3 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould