And as he came back to Tyre, he went up into Judea also, and fell upon Tarichee, and presently took it, and carried about thirty thousand Jews captives; and slew Pitholaus, who succeeded Aristobulus in his seditious practices, and that by the persuasion of Antipater, who proved to have great interest in him, and was at that time in great repute with the Idumeans also: out of which nation he married a wife, who was the daughter of one of their eminent men, and her name was Cypros, 12 by whom he had four sons, Phasael, and Herod, who was afterwards made king, and Joseph, and Pheroras; and a daughter, named Salome.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

2. The science of natural philosophy (physics) contains in itself synthetical judgements a priori, as principles.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

There are several of these tiger-villages or “enclosures” in the Peninsula, the chief of them being Gunong Ledang (the Mount Ophir of Malacca), just as Pasummah is the chief of such localities in Sumatra. 79
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The defeat of the Vandals had formerly signalized his valor; the rudiments of justice and prudence were still more conspicuous in a Moor; and while he laid Adrumetum in ashes, he calmly admonished the emperor that the peace of Africa might be secured by the recall of Solomon and his unworthy nephews.
— 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

He clears away jungle and poisonvines and underbrush—at any rate hacks valiantly at them, smiting hip and thigh.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

So they departed in joy and peace.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

On this point indeed the language of Josephus is not | The notices of Josephus and Philo considered.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Personal studies also occupied his attention, and he found time to his great joy and profit to attend the course of lectures on "Systematic Theology" delivered at Queen's Square by the Rev. Principal Dykes.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

This paste made regular “pipe-clay,” with which they manufactured bowls, cups molded on stones of a proper size, great jars and pots to hold water, etc.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

If you have any justice, any pity, If ye be any thing but churchmen's habits- Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They were like pigs—head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

There is just a pleasant glow, a healthy freshness in his complexion—the warm, pinky tint of the whole harmonising with the deeper colour of the cheeks, exactly as it ought to do.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Suddenly, Caesar left Franz's side, bounded ahead, hurled himself on Father Benjamin, seized the priest's habit in his great jaws, and pulled him over backwards.
— from Rescue Dog of the High Pass by Jim Kjelgaard

They were allowed just a pound of sugar by the men,
— from To Alaska for Gold; Or, The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer

I didn't suppose you were such a confounded fool as to think seriously of joining a privateer.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

I have since found the Canada jay, and partridges, both the black and the common, equally tame there, as if they had not yet learned to mistrust man entirely.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

We are looked upon as impostors and yet are true men; 006:009 as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life; 006:010 as sad, but we are always joyful; as poor, but we bestow wealth on many; as having nothing, and yet we securely possess all things.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Corinthians by Richard Francis Weymouth

On emerging from his prison under a general amnesty in 1840, Kossuth undertook the direction of a Magyar journal at Pesth, which at once gained an immense influence throughout the country.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

And we’d trouble you to make your apology just as public as your hasty accusation was.’” “Hurrah!” cried Tom Betts.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

Aside from Dick and Mrs. Harlan, the party consisted of Jim Winnett, a broker; Sam Norton, a popular comedian, just at present out of an engagement; Ted Hawley, one of those mysterious gentlemen, of which this section of New York is so full, who manage to live in great comfort on an income of nothing a year, and, by no greater exertion, so far as anyone has been able to discover, than it takes to array themselves in well-tailored garments, and cultivate the pleasant art of hand-shaking.
— from Lola by Owen Davis