We are told that wealthy Roman landowners sometimes possessed as many as ten or twenty thousand slaves, or even more [742] .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The Swedish king took it much amiss that Olaf the Thick had set himself down in his scat-lands, and driven the earl out of them, and therefore he threatened the king with his heaviest vengeance when opportunity offered.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

On my having attained my eighth year, and being able to read Hebrew, my father engaged for me a teacher of the Talmud, who resided in the house, and from early in the morning until late at night he laboured with me in the Talmud; now
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the stoves: “Nothing! and all that?” “All that is engaged.” “By whom?” “By messieurs the wagoners.” “How many are there of them?” “Twelve.” “There is enough food there for twenty.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Bulug sa lúhà nga milúbug sa íyang mata, A torrent of tears that blurred her sight.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The arts and treasures of Victoria enabled her successively to place Marius and Tetricus on the throne, and to reign with a manly vigor under the name of those dependent emperors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

may the warrior's meed And tears of triumph their reward prolong!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

What is it, I ask you, when he comes down to breakfast dry of mouth, and touchy of temper— That gives him pause, and silences that scintillating barb of sarcasm on the tip of his tongue, With which he meant to impale you?
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He made a trip or two to Bismarck and Deadwood; he looked busy; he promised great things; but nothing happened.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

Large service stations use as many as ten of these Tungars.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

A great deal of light is thrown upon the manners and thought of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by a body of literature which arose during those centuries.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

[329] “Let me be,” Luther cries, turning to the lawyers, “even in my Last Will, the man I really am, one well known both in heaven and on earth, and not unknown in hell, standing in sufficient esteem and authority to be trusted and believed in more than any notary; for God, the Father of Mercies, has entrusted to me, poor, unworthy, wretched sinner that I am, the Gospel of His Dear Son and has made and hitherto kept me faithful and true to it, so that many in the world have accepted it through me, and consider me a teacher of the truth in spite of the Pope’s ban and the wrath of Emperors, Kings, Princes, priests and all the devils....
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Several Operas, Oratorios, Masses, and Treatises on the Theory and History of Music.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel

The general plot of this series of romances bears on this marriage, and tells of the thousand and one obstacles from rivals, giants, sorcerers and so on, which had to be overcome before the consummation could be effected.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

But the grand "matter of matters," and the one that took up the most of Uncle Jaw's spare time, lay in a dispute between him and 'Squire Jones, the father of Susan and Silence; for it so happened that his lands and those of Uncle Jaw were contiguous.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the beginning of December, 1878, therefore, Messrs. John Shepstone, Brownlie, Walker, Fynn, and Fyney were selected to be the messengers to Cetywayo, to whom they were to communicate a message, of which the following was the purport:—The boundary-line was to be drawn from the junction of the Buffalo and Blood rivers to the Magedala Mountains, and thence on to the district of Roundhill and the source of the Pongolo.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

'The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' is a proper maxim for a witness in a court of justice, and a wholesome precept to be taught to all; but it is curious to watch among the highest and purest in the land, as among the lowest and most debased, how many are the obstacles to the absolute observance of this precept.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 696 April 28, 1877. by Various

And we must all tender our thanks to the King of Sweden and Norway for coming here to-day, knowing, as we all do, how deeply interested his Majesty must be in work of this kind, and of the important part drill has played amongst his people.
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII