Finding himself in this position, and that the green coat was beginning to tear, and reflecting that if the fierce animal came that way he might be able to get at him, he began to utter such cries, and call for help so earnestly, that all who heard him and did not see him felt sure he must be in the teeth of some wild beast.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Méneval also speaks of his performing this "pious duty, in the fulfilment of which nothing was allowed to stand in his way."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

What is the rule for gender in the first declension?
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Is the fourth combination of temperaments, which exists in all other things, non-existent in the humours alone?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The Byzantine galleys ascended the river, the legions completed a line of circumvallation; and the Russian prince was encompassed, assaulted, and famished, in the fortifications of the camp and city.
— 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

As one of the informants told me: “We do not sleep with women of Dobu, for Dobu is the final mountain (Koyaviguna Dobu); it is a taboo of the mwasila magic.”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I think, he replied, that I have a much stronger faith, Socrates, in the first of the two, which has been fully demonstrated to me, than in the latter, which has not been demonstrated at all, but rests only on probable and plausible grounds; and is therefore believed by the many.
— from Phaedo by Plato

'Thy Sikhs thought so when our two companies came to help them at the Pirzai Kotal in the face of eight Afridi standards on the ridge not three months gone.' He told the story of a Border action in which the Dogra companies of the Ludhiana Sikhs had acquitted themselves well.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Any brollies or gumboots in the fambly?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I suppose they were going to grade it, which is the favourite American term."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Half encircled by a bend of the river, a beautiful city lay glittering in the fresh morning sun; its bright new dwellings, set in cool green gardens, ranging up around a stately dome-shaped hill, which was crowned by a noble marble edifice, whose high tapering spire was radiant with white and gold.
— from The Mormons: A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Thomas L. (Thomas Leiper) Kane

The mother's face told a tale of hardship and toil, and there was the plough in the furrow, and the girl's calloused hands folded in her lap.
— from A Mountain Europa by Fox, John, Jr.

In the foreground is a grotto, in which is seated the Virgin Mary, with Joseph at her side and the miraculous Bambino in her lap.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

[Pg 134] victoriously at Malta, where his management of the great siege placed him in the foremost rank of successful generals.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

Variations in the foregoing procedure are frequent.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

We was neither of us in the first rank for science, but terrible strong and gluttons for punishment.
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts

The emperor, purposing to chastise them for their refusal, caused his whole army to march straight towards that castle, before the gate whereof was erected a tower built of huge big spars and rafters of the larch-tree, fast bound together with pins and pegs of the same wood, and interchangeably laid on one another, after the fashion of a pile or stack of timber, set up in the fabric thereof to such an apt and convenient height that from the parapet above the portcullis they thought with stones and levers to beat off and drive away such as should approach thereto.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by François Rabelais

Beyond the management of foreign relations, the administration of the customs, the postal, and the telegraph services, and of the alcohol and powder monopolies, and the control of the arsenals and of the army when in the field, the federal government exercises directly but inconsiderable executive authority.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

And what is the fate you have provided for the "good citizen," who, believing slavery to be sinful, cannot, in the fear of God, "aid and assist" in making a fellow-man a slave?
— from A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. by Franklin Dexter

To such an extent was Jeremiah deceived, that in the fourteenth chapter and eighteenth verse we find him crying out to the Lord: "Wilt thou be altogether "unto me as a liar?"
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll