King Antiochus returning out of Egypt 16 for fear of the Romans, made an expedition against the city Jerusalem; and when he was there, in the hundred and forty-third year of the kingdom of the Seleucidse, he took the city without fighting, those of his own party opening the gates to him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She blew him a kiss and ran out of the entry, leaving behind her the same sickly smell of jasmine.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She kicked a rock out of her way and stood staring up at the sky.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

Which reflection led him to appoint not men but demigods, who are of a higher and more divine race, to be the kings and rulers of our cities; he did as we do with flocks of sheep and other tame animals.
— from Laws by Plato

We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads, and pay our debts, if we do nothing more.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

On the way down I had talked a good deal with them, and between us, with the aid of my teacher, Nakazawa Kensaku (a retainer of Ogasawara, who had to seek his livelihood in consequence of his master's disgrace), we had managed to put Sir Rutherford's memorandum into Japanese.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Gentlemen of the jury, if this practice is not loudly rebuked we shall have work of this kind accumulating rapidly on our hands."
— from Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

With that, and pausing merely to kick a rung out of a chair which happened to be in his way, he rushed from the room.
— from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

As we no longer reason but during intervals, and as these intervals are troublesome, and spent in secret reproaches, we wish to suppress them, and thus proceeding from one illusion to another, we at length endeavour to lose all knowledge and remembrance of ourselves.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Aunt Maud's line is to keep all reality out of our relation—that is out of my being in danger from you—by not having so much as suspected or heard of it.
— from The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

In 1022 and 1062 two monks of Kiev are recorded, out of a crowd of the unknown, as visitors to Syria, and about 1106, probably through the news of the [Pg 86] Frankish conquest, Daniel left his native river, the Snow, in Little Russia, and passed through Byzantium and by way of the Archipelago and Cyprus to Jaffa and Jerusalem, describing roughly in versts or half-miles the whole distance and that of every stage.
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

If the pit is used, the skins are removed to another drum containing the second solution, and kept at rest or overturned for a like period.
— from A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products by William H. (William Henry) Dooley

But just as we do not wait for feeling to take us out to earn our bread, and keep a roof over our head, so it is a far nobler thing to turn to God from a sense of duty, and conscience, and spiritual need, than it is to depend upon feeling to make us do, what not to do, with or without feeling, is our loss and our shame.
— from Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd