So the people decked him with garlands like a victim and led him to the altar, where they were just about to sacrifice him when he was rescued either by his grandson Cytisorus, who arrived in the nick of time from Colchis, or by Hercules, who brought tidings that the king’s son Phrixus was yet alive.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

árabe;—si mi tío llega a dejarme por heredero, o yo me hago rico de cualquier otro modo, te juro llevarte a vivir a la plaza de San Antonio de la ciudad de Cádiz, y comprarte más 30 joyas que tiene la Virgen de las Angustias [85-5] de Granada!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

c. l, and Valesius ad loc.)
— 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

l, and Valesius, ad locum,) rashly supposes that he understands an astronomical question, of which his readers are ignorant.
— 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

The former is the Greek original the latter, a very ancient Latin version by Evagrius, the friend of St. Jerom.
— 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

She had already had time to look at Vronsky, and looked round at Levin.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Unbelieving Popes, like Alexander VI. and Leo X., have persecuted.
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

The representation of beasts became at last astonishingly vivid and like.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For newer instruction on Schiller's Biography he can consult the Schillers Leben of Madame von Wolzogen, which Goethe once called a Schiller Redivivus ; the Briefwechsel [viii] zwischen Schiller und Goethe ;—or, as a summary of the whole, and the readiest inlet to the general subject for an English reader, Sir Edward Bulwer's Sketch of Schiller's Life , a vigorous and lively piece of writing, prefixed to his Translations from Schiller .
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

Toward the end of his first week at Red Roof, the summer home of the Truxton Kings, he might have been found on the broad lawn late one afternoon, playing tennis with his hostess, the lovely and vivacious "Aunt Loraine."
— from The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

This man had led a very adventurous life.
— from The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by J. (John) Wilkinson

Not only acquitted political offenders are as a rule transported, administratively, to some distant town of the Empire, but even the judges themselves, when they are considered to have passed too lenient a verdict, are liable to be forced into resigning their office, and to be then exiled in company with the very prisoners who had stood before them !"
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

In her company was Beauty, desired so much and by so many, in the form of a gracious virgin wreathed in flowers, and all crowned with lilies; and with them was Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, likewise a virgin, and likewise dressed with much richness and infinite grace, and crowned with the ornament of a lovely gilded garland, and carrying in the hand a beautiful little branch of flowering almond.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

"Born in 1758 and marrying in 1786, when nearly 28, she had eight children, led a very active life, and lived till 1843: dying at the age of 84 in possession of all her faculties."
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

From the 13th the British cavalry as well as the Spanish were in touch with Soult; General Long had been lying about Villafranca and Los Santos till that day, with three British and four Portuguese regiments
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman