The surgeon, on the other hand, having heard my whole story from my own mouth, defended me strenuously, and in the course of that good-natured office recounted all the instances of Crampley's malice against me while I remained on board of that ship; which declaration, while it satisfied the captain of my innocence, made the lieutenant as much my defender's enemy as mine.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And if a cousin or nearer relative of the deceased, whether on the male or female side, does not prosecute the homicide when he ought, and have him proclaimed an outlaw, he shall in the first place be involved in the pollution, and incur the hatred of the Gods, even as the curse of the law stirs up the voices of men against him; and in the second place he shall be liable to be prosecuted by any one who is willing to inflict retribution on behalf of the dead.
— from Laws by Plato

As I recall our being opposed thus, face to face, I seem again to hear my heart beat fast and high.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Cain had more than once gone down to him, to persuade him to come on deck and assist at the boarding of the Portuguese, but in vain—his sole reply to the threats and solicitations of the pirate was— “Do with me as you please—I have made up my mind—you know I do not fear death—as long as I remain on board of this vessel, I will take no part in your atrocities.
— from The Pirate by Frederick Marryat

I returned on board of the Calliope with this intelligence to the captain, and found that the surgeon had just sent in the report of our own loss, which was, 1 officer and 17 men killed—master, 2 lieutenants, 2 midshipmen, and 47 wounded.
— from Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat

I recalled, one by one, the incidents of my earliest "risky" and yet fortunate venture, when, following the General's advice, I had gone in boldly, and after a short period of breathless fluctuation, had "realised," as he had said, "a nice little fortune for a first hatching."
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Of these, four are the interradial furrows just mentioned; the other eight are the adradial ( afr ) furrows, which set off the four perradial surfaces of the pyramid from the four interradial ribs or bands of the corners, each of which is again subdivided, as mentioned above, by the shallower interradial furrows.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

I remained on board of the steamer until the engineer reported that he had steam enough to go ahead, when I returned to the Sylvania.
— from Up the River; or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Oliver Optic

This character of thread is often employed for the so-called fleecy underwear where the soft yarn is raised or brushed on the teasles to give an effect extremely pleasant to the touch.
— from Hosiery Manufacture by Davis, William, M.A.

But Dryden himself denies that he was the first to introduce representations of battles on the English stage, Shakspeare having set him the example; while Jonson, though he shows no battle, lets you hear in "Catiline," from behind the scenes, the shouts of fighting armies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

This additional pungency on the part of the fair young creature led, on ordinary occasions, to such slight consequences as the copious dilution of Mr Pinch’s tea, or to his coming off uncommonly short in respect of butter, or to other the like results.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Despite the offer of the Prince Regent to obey all Napoleon's behests except that relating to the seizure of British subjects and their property, war was irrevocably resolved on by October the 12th.[173] And on October the 27th a secret convention was signed at the Palace of Fontainebleau for arranging "the future lot of Portugal by a healthy policy and conformably to the interests of France and Spain."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

A school of killer-whales with dorsal fins aloft, disported themselves in rectangles of black on the back of another.
— from Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby