But when Alexander had drawn them thus out of the woody glen, he ordered Philotas to take the cavalry which came from upper Macedonia, and to charge their right wing, where they had advanced furthest in their sally.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

To this it might be replied that the marriage and the coronation were separated by some weeks; that, while the former occurred nearly a month before the time of this scene, the latter has only just taken place; and that what the Ghost cannot bear is, not the mere marriage, but the accession of an incestuous murderer to the throne.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

THE OAK AND THE REEDS THE BLIND MAN AND THE CUB
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

This verse, which from any other pen would have been a fine eulogium, from mine had an unequivocal meaning, and too clearly explained the verse by which it was preceded.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

he never liked your marrying Mr. Hale, but if he could have known it would have come to this, he would have sworn worse oaths than ever, if that was possible!"' Dixon had been so much accustomed to comment upon Mr. Hale's proceedings to her mistress (who listened to her, or not, as she was in the humour), that she never noticed Margaret's flashing eye and dilating nostril.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Fathom entered accidentally into the midst of this well-acted scene, and, perceiving the agitation of the maid, and the concern of the mistress, desired, in a respectful manner, to know the cause of their disorder.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

So, selecting a tree which was situated in such a manner as to command a complete view of the summer house, I swung myself up into it and soon gained a position from which, with the assistance of a small telescope I had taken with me, I could obtain a good view of her proceedings.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

One shouldn’t attempt to live in Italy without making a friend of Gilbert Osmond, who knew more about the country than any one except two or three German professors.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

[519] As Whitley Stokes pointed out, this is the only passage connecting the Druids with well-worship; and it is very important, because it establishes the relation between the Druids as magicians and their control of spirits like fairies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

At last the French determined on more vigorous measures, and in 1830 sent a force of over 40,000 men against the country.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And with him went the monks and the musicians, and the candle-bearers, and the swingers of censers, and a great company.
— from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

Terence had taken out his share of the money, and the cart with the remainder for Romana was now at the door.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Candidate, who perceived all this, quickly withdrew [Pg 62] from the lady's enchanted circle, in which he also had been involved, and taking "the baby" on his knee, began to relate a story which was calculated as much to interest the mother as the child.
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

This is a remarkable fact, which seems to indicate that self-fertilisation is in some manner more advantageous than crossing, unless the cross brings with it, as is generally the case, some decided and preponderant advantage; but to this subject I shall recur in a future chapter.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

There had been no boats at Rutiaro in five months and the crowd on the beach was unfeignedly glad to see us.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

But we must never lose sight of the reason for the creative power of our thought, that it is because our mind is itself a thought of the Divine Mind, and that consequently our increase in livingness and creative power must be in exact proportion to our perception of our relation to the Parent Mind.
— from The Doré Lectures Being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by T. (Thomas) Troward

Sometimes, no doubt, though almost contemporaneous, they represent alterations actually made at the church within a short time of one another; but the discrepancies between them are just as likely to be due to the caprices of individual engravers.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by George Worley