Wearied out therefore by his past sufferings and by those threatening him, having convened a meeting of his friends, after he had detailed to them all he had seen and heard, and Jupiter's [Pg 123] having so often presented himself to him in his sleep, the threats and anger of heaven realized [92] in his own calamities, by the unhesitating assent of all who were present he is conveyed in a litter into the forum to the consuls; from thence being conveyed into the senate-house, after he had stated those same particulars to the senators, to the great surprise of all, behold another miracle: he who had been conveyed into the senate-house deprived of the use of all his limbs, is recorded to have returned home on his own feet after he discharged his duty.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

At the time that Hannibal was meditating the march from Iberia to Italy with his army, he was confronted with the extreme difficulty of providing food and securing provisions, both because the journey 585 was thought to be of insuperable length, and because the barbarians that lived in the intervening country were so numerous and savage.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Some years ago, it is said, a family who had lived in the house for more than a hundred years were much annoyed by it, and determined to quit the dwelling.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

UGOLINO DA SIENA ] Stefano, painter of Florence and disciple of Giotto, was so excellent, that he not only surpassed all the others who had laboured in the art before him, but outstripped his own master himself by so much that he was held, and deservedly, the best of all the painters who had lived up to that time, as his works clearly demonstrate.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Neither had Thor any battle: for, lo, in the morning it turned out that the noise had been only the snoring of a certain enormous but peaceable Giant, the Giant Skrymir, who lay peaceably sleeping near by; and this that they took for a house was merely his Glove , thrown aside there; the door was the Glove-wrist; the little closet they had fled into was the Thumb!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

He was referring to Liubov Ivanovna, the lady who shared the lodge with him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the Banks Islands there are some stones of a remarkably long shape which go by the name of “eating ghosts,” because certain powerful and dangerous ghosts are believed to lodge in them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Later, they learned that it had landed in the neighborhood of Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina.
— from The Master of the World by Jules Verne

The general purpose of the loan is to effectuate the objects of the voyage and the safety of the ship.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

Truly there is reason to admire the secret judgments of God, for this infamous man certainly did not merit that honor; and to tell the truth we had hesitated much in resolving to make on this occasion a particular cemetery, and to transport to holy ground a body that had led so wicked a life in the country and given the savages such a wrong impression of the manners of the French.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

Matching these eternal things, an eternal universe, eternal spirit entities, eternal good, with its background of eternal evil,—eternal law, agency and the like, is the Prophet's doctrine of eternal relations.
— from Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A Discourse by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The Vicar, as he greeted Miss Lowther in the morning, had not meant to be severe, having been specially cautioned against severity by his wife; but he had been unable not to be silent and stern.
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

As they descend the ladder ashes from the fire burnt near the corpse are thrown after them by the people who are left in the house.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

Then Junipero Serra planted a Mission Cross and blessed the Spanish flag which Portolá hoisted, taking possession of the land in the name of "His Most Catholic Majesty King Carlos III, by right of discovery."
— from Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions by Maria Antonia Field

If your liver is torpid it must be stimulated.
— from Pistol and Revolver Shooting by A. L. A. (Abraham Lincoln Artman) Himmelwright