On the 12th of July of this year the long expected French succor arrived,—five thousand French troops under Rochambeau and seven ships-of-the-line under De Ternay.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The old man did not seem to pay any attention to these demonstrations as he went toward a pile of skulls and knelt to look earnestly for something among the bones.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

In the place where the reader looks eagerly for some account of the mystery of St. Clare’s disaster may be found the following words: ‘Everywhere else in this book I have narrated things exactly as they occurred, holding as I do the old-fashioned opinion that the glory of England is old enough to take care of itself.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In the shipwreck of the Byzantine libraries, each fugitive seized a fragment of treasure, a copy of some author, who without his industry might have perished: the transcripts were multiplied by an assiduous, and sometimes an elegant pen; and the text was corrected and explained by their own comments, or those of the elder scholiasts.
— 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

40 If dull repletion fright the Muse away, Sights, gay as these, may more invite her stay; And, trust me, while the iv'ry keys resound, Fair damsels sport, and perfumes steam around, Apollo's influence, like ethereal flame Shall animate at once thy glowing frame, And all the Muse shall rush into thy breast, By love and music's blended pow'rs possest.
— from Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton

A typical design of three associated ideas treated emblematically would be the most natural use of such an arrangement—as Faith, Hope, and Charity; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity; Science, Art, and Industry; [154] or the three goddesses Heré, Pallas, and Aphrodite, as choice and purpose might decide.
— from Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane

It is certainly large enough for such a purpose."
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

"It's long enough for such a plain body as myself; you want to make a fashionable lady of me."
— from Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

Of course he had not neglected to secure it with a line, by which he hauled it in towards the rock, securing it in a natural basin which was just large enough for such a purpose.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

We had already visited the Forum once; so this time we did not stay long; just long enough for some ambitious pickpocket to get a wallet out of my hip pocket while I was pushing forward with a flock of other human sheep for a better look at the ruined portico wherein Mark Antony stood when he delivered his justly popular funeral oration over the body of the murdered Caesar.
— from Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Here it was that Richard Cœur de Lion escaped from shipwreck, and, according to local tradition, founded the cathedral of Ragusa in gratitude for his escape, though the entries in the Ragusan archives prove that it was built by contributions from the nobles.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Mrs. R. L. Ellsworth, for Student Aid, Fisk U., Tenn. 5.00 Kalamo.
— from American Missionary, Vol. XXXIV., No. 5, May 1880 by Various