Now we are making a railway, are standing here philosophising, but two thousand years will pass—and of this embankment and of all those men, asleep after their hard work, not one grain of dust will remain.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So when Zarathustra thus ascended the mountain, he thought on the way of his many solitary wanderings from youth onwards, and how many mountains and ridges and summits he had already climbed.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This verb is not in the Greek, which means: "(And reason also shows) how man, etc." BOOK IV XV.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at, hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home; drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root of.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Then [I rose up] and walked to and fro in my abode, rejoicing and saying, "How can these things possibly be done to thy servant who is now speaking, whose heart made him to fly into foreign lands [where dwell] peoples who stammer in their speech?
— from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

A young man, 18 years of age, and of a miserable and ragged appearance, said he first left home from bad usage; and could not say whether it was the same with his sister or not, but she left her home about nine months ago, when he met her while he was getting his living as a costermonger.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

36° S., over, as I have reason to believe, nearly the whole of Brazil, and up the Cordillera to regions which, according to M. d'Orbigny, border on perpetual snow, and which are almost destitute of vegetation: undoubtedly the climate of the Cordillera must have been different when the mastodon inhabited it; but we should not forget the case of the Siberian mammoth and rhinoceros, as showing how severe a climate the larger pachydermata can endure; nor overlook the fact of the guanaco ranging at the present day over the hot low deserts of Peru, the lofty pinnacles of the Cordillera, and the damp forest-clad land of Southern Tierra del Fuego; the puma, also, is found from the equator to the Strait of Magellan, and I have seen its footsteps only a little below the limits of perpetual snow in the Cordillera of Chile.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

In the afternoon he went to Pall Mall and renewed acquaintances, saying he had returned to London the day before yesterday.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

“I may accidentally run across some hint or clew that may help me.”
— from The Boys of the Wireless; Or, A Stirring Rescue from the Deep by Frank V. Webster

Two successive scenes in that 'most authetic record' are styled 'Hic ceciderunt simul Angli et
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Both had been charged with murdering a ranchman and stealing his horses.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill