After the pledges were exchanged, the Macrones fell to vigorously hewing down trees and constructing a road to help them across, mingling freely with the Hellenes and fraternising in their midst, and they afforded them as good as market as they could, and for three days conducted them on their march, until they had brought them safely to the confines of the Colchians.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

93 I never knew a man able to answer this argument.—But, indeed, to speak of my father as he was;—he was certainly irresistible;—both in his orations and disputations;—he was born an orator;—Θεοδιδαχιοσ.—Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him,—and, withal, he had so shrewd a guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent,——that N ATURE might have stood up and said,—“ This man is eloquent.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The name going before, or following after, either in writing or speaking, had no signification of grandeur, as is evident by their writings; they will as soon say Oppius and Caesar, as Caesar and Oppius; and me and thee, as thee and me.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

chinerío , m. , a term applied to a group of Chinese including both sexes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I might answer them as Themistocles answered the Seriphian who was abusing him and saying that he was famous, not for his own merits but because he was an Athenian: 'If you had been a native of my country or I of yours, neither of us would have been famous.'
— from The Republic by Plato

We learn that God is; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In short, he ended by saying that what could and ought to be done was to give the money intended for the ransom of one of us Christians to him, so that he might with it buy a vessel there in Algiers under the pretence of becoming a merchant and trader at Tetuan and along the coast; and when master of the vessel, it would be easy for him to hit on some way of getting us all out of the bano and putting us on board; especially if the Moorish lady gave, as she said, money enough to ransom all, because once free it would be the easiest thing in the world for us to embark even in open day; but the greatest difficulty was that the Moors do not allow any renegade to buy or own any craft, unless it be a large vessel for going on roving expeditions, because they are afraid that anyone who buys a small vessel, especially if he be a Spaniard, only wants it for the purpose of escaping to Christian territory.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

B.] and two neats’ tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I have two letters written by the hand of your master to Marshal Biron, telling him to trust Fuentes as if it were himself, and it is notorious that Fuentes has projected and managed all the attempts to assassinate me.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Now, if on the one hand they stand in need of feeding-up, and if on the Pg 163 Greek text other the principle of the refilling of a vacuum 227 can give them no help—both by reason of the difficulties previously mentioned and the actual thinness, as I shall show—we must then seek another cause for nutrition.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Among my workmen again, pleasing myself all the afternoon there, and so to the office doing business till past 9 at night, and so home and to bed.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 17: July/August 1662 by Samuel Pepys

Give me your word to meet me at twelve at the attorney's, and I'll take it.'
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

[that is, in Moab,] in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.”
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

Everything was as still as a stone till they came to a ditch, when a fearful tempest of shot from the cannon and musket assailed them, and the assailants were mowed down like grass before the scythe.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

But let me add, that after the appearance of “The Viking Age,” everybody was far from being against me in England.
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

A great step in advance was, however, taken in the act of May 1, 1810, which imposed upon the marshals and their assistants the additional duty of taking, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, an account of the manufacturing establishments and manufactures of the several districts, at an aggregate expense not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

Being veined, the leaves should be bent and moulded as they are to appear upon the work when it is completed: they should then be dried rather quickly, as it greatly assists in the hardening.
— from A Complete Guide to the Ornamental Leather Work by James Revell

It was common, in the Middle Ages, to adopt the accusative form as the standard one, especially in proper names.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer