It is also said that, when Kimon was being tried for his life, Elpinike softened the resentment of Perikles, who was one of those appointed to impeach him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

After the blows had been given, by slow degrees she became affectionate again, and a love encounter sealed the reconciliation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'My fortitude is gone,' said Valancourt at length; 'I can no longer even struggle to recall it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

While thus she fills the house with clam’rous cries, Our hearing is diverted by our eyes: For, while I held my son, in the short space Betwixt our kisses and our last embrace; Strange to relate, from young Iulus’ head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows, and on his temples fed.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Ligula, ear scoop, two raspatories, hook and scoop, scalpel, fork and hook, curette and hook, bodkin.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Sometimes she was her own teacher, and sometimes, if they staid in any one place long enough, she took regular lessons.
— from A Jolly Fellowship by Frank Richard Stockton

For my part, I should be well content to be made better acquainted with them; especially with those later exploits, since the retreat from Mexico, of which I have heard only confused and contradictory accounts.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

A military body, land or sea, may abandon its communications for a brief period, strictly limited, expecting soon to restore them at the same or some other point, just as a caravan can start across the desert [373] with food and water which will last until another base is reached.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

"Why—I understood that it was the unexpected sight of your special standing on the 'Y' that made the passenger engineer lose his head," he countered lamely, evidently striving to recover himself and to efface the damaging admission.
— from The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde

In 1867, when Doctors' Commons was deserted by the proctors, a clever London essayist sketched the ruins very graphically, at the time when the Metropolitan Fire Brigade occupied the lawyers' deserted town:— "A deserted justice-hall, with dirty mouldering walls, broken doors and windows, shattered floor, and crumbling ceiling.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

After the coating has been laid on, a soft brush, such as photographers use for dusting dry Page 121 {121} plates, should be passed up and down, and across and across, with light, even strokes to remove any unevenness.
— from Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin

But no limpet ever stuck to rock with greater tenacity than did Alric to the handle of that trident; and it is but just to add, for the information of those who know it not, that the difficulty of retaining one’s foothold on the pebbly bed of a river when knee-deep in a foaming rapid is very great indeed, even when one has nothing more to do than attend to the balancing of one’s own body—much greater, of course, in circumstances such as we describe.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

it was not like ... to make my Death to be safe and comfortable.... I tell the Reader, that he may see why I have taken this Subject as so necessary, why I am ending my Life with the publication of these Historical Letters and Collections, which I dare say have such Evidence as will leave every Sadduce that readeth them, either convinced, or utterly without excuse."
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein