V. After that he went to Hermias the Eunuch, the tyrant of Atarneus, who, as it is said, allowed him all kinds of liberties; and some say that he formed a matrimonial connection with him, giving him either his daughter or his niece in marriage, as is recorded by Demetrius of Magnesia, in his essay on Poets and Prose-writers of the same name.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In the first days of summer the Lacedaemonians and their allies, with two-thirds of their forces as before, invaded Attica, under the command of Archidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, King of Lacedaemon, and sat down and laid waste the country.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

He held his head rigid, face forward; but his eyes rolled, he kept on lifting and setting down his feet gently, his mouth foamed a little.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Drouet had a habit, characteristic of his kind, of looking after stylishly dressed or pretty women on the street and remarking upon them.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Breads we have of several grains, roots, and kernels; yea and some of flesh and fish dried; with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings: so that some do extremely move appetites; some do nourish so, as divers do live of them, without any other meat; who live very long.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Ayaw pagpanipis sa ingkuwintru, Don’t drive too close to the oncoming traffic. tag-(←) n name given to various kinds of long and slender sardines and herrings.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Have you never read that inscription at Delphi, "Agis the king of land and sea erected me;" and have you not heard that his wife Timæa was seduced by Alcibiades, and in her whispers to her handmaidens called the child that was born Alcibiades?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[pg 323] ever in possession of some kind of love, and some kind of egoism and self-enjoyment!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The cracker is kind of like a safecracker, or lock picker.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

This was the famous remark of Solon to Crœsus, when he was the master of the opulent and flourishing kingdom of Lydia, and seemed so firmly settled on his throne, that there was no probability of any interruption of his happiness.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

There was the girl before her who passed through life without knowing it, interested in putting out the vestments for an old priest, hiding his amice so that no other hands but hers should touch it; this and the dream of an angel who visited her in sleep and whose flesh was filled with luminous tints constituted all she knew of life, all she would ever know.
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore

Every week-end he made some excursion with Kurt or Linda, and sometimes alone.
— from Young Earnest: The Romance of a Bad Start in Life by Gilbert Cannan

He had the prisoners forth, and went down their ranks; then he picked out those that had been officers under him and had sworn the oath to him as Captain of Calais and threw them into prison, but the rest he sent away in safety, saying that they had but served their King to the best of their knowledge; only Lord Audley, Somerset's second in command, son to the peer whom Salisbury had slain at Blore Heath, was not permitted to depart, and was consigned to the castle.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

At that moment, too, there was a look in them which I had not seen before—a kind of longing, a sense of unsatisfaction, something wistful.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking