'And lo, escaped from slaughtering Pyrrhus through the weapons of the enemy, Polites, one of Priam's children, flies wounded down the long colonnades and circles the empty halls.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Upon this strange circumstance her thoughts were long engaged, for strange it certainly was to hear music at midnight, when every inhabitant of the castle had long since retired to rest, and in a place, where nothing like harmony had been heard before, probably, for many years.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It is not an insuperable difficulty that Foraminifera have not, as insisted on by Dr. Carpenter, progressed in organisation since even the Laurentian epoch; for some organisms would have to remain fitted for simple conditions of life, and what could be better fitted for this end than these lowly organised Protozoa?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He then left her, with a heart, so much lightened by this short respite, that he almost lost every former sense of misfortune.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

I was set at work Among my maids, full little, God knows, looking Either for such men or such business.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The moon was hidden behind the clouds, but it was light enough for Sofya Petrovna to see how the wind played with the skirts of his overcoat and with the awning of the verandah.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Iam lûcêscêbat, et frâtrês Sânctî Bernardî vigilês Ôrâbant precês solitâs, Cum vôx clâmâvit per aurâs, Excelsior!
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

....... 151 Postquam altos ventum in montes atque invia lustra Ecce ferae, saxi deiectae vertice, caprae Decurrere iugis; alia de parte patentes Transmittunt cursu campos atque agmina cervi 155 Pulverulenta fuga glomerant montisque relinquunt.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The crowd was now formed in a line, extending for several blocks, with half a hundred policemen keeping guard, and so there was nothing for them to do but to take their places at the end of it.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

There was not the least excuse for such treatment, as the confederate government had seized every sawmill in the region, and could just as well have put up shelter for these prisoners as not, wood being plentiful here.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

This man, who seemed, at least, to derive no great good from his position, seeing that he was miserably clad in an old suit of ragged Nismes serge, a pair of old blue breeches loose at the knees, and a wig which had scarcely any hair left on it, began to read from a paper, when, to Bertie's astonishment, a very different voice from the soft tones he had recently been listening to issued from the Governor's lips; and in a harsh, commanding way De Launey exclaimed: "Fellow, stand up before gentlemen!
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

My one houri, and she all-sufficing—my little English flower, so sweet and winsome, so kind and wayward, so teasing and yet so tender, who has brought a new fragrance into my life, a peace my soul has never known till now, a love and gratitude into my heart that will keep me hers for ever.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

A Russian general drove about in the forest of flags and banners that day looking eagerly for symbols of his own country, but for hours the quest was fruitless.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

Peterson was twelve feet off base and there was but one thing to do and that was to keep away from the ball long enough for Sam to score.
— from Catcher Craig by Christy Mathewson

The walls of all the houses bear the great patriotic device: " Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, sinon La Mort "; others are more political in their proclamation: " La République une et indivisible ."
— from I Will Repay by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I am quite sure she wouldn't decline my offer of a neat little establishment, for she must be nearly starving on her music lessons.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue