It was situated on the northern edge of the present Anderson county, on the east side of Keowee river, opposite and a short distance below the entrance of Little river, and about three miles from the present Pendleton.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Accordingly, she wrote an account of this treacherous scene to Cleopatra, and how her son was murdered; but Cleopatra, as she had formerly been desirous to give her what satisfaction she could, and commiserating Alexandra's misfortunes, made the case her own, and would not let Antony be quiet, but excited him to punish the child's murder; for that it was an unworthy thing that Herod, who had been by him made king of a kingdom that no way belonged to him, should be guilty of such horrid crimes against those that were of the royal blood in reality.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

‘When my Em’ly took flight,’ he said, in stern wrath for the moment, ‘from the house wheer she was made a prisoner by that theer spotted snake as Mas’r Davy see,—and his story’s trew, and may GOD confound him!—she took flight in the night.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Collate this with the date of the fifth extract made by myself from the newspapers.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The modern Greeks were divided between the two sects: with more fury than skill they fought under the banner of their leaders; and the field of battle was removed in their flight from Constantinople to Rome.
— 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

We beat up against a strong head wind, under reefed top-sails, as far as San Juan, where we came to anchor nearly three miles from the shore, with slip-ropes on our cables, in the old south-easter style of last winter.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

On the first rumor, he returned to his palace, affected to despise this plebeian tumult, and declared to the messenger of Rienzi, that at his leisure he would cast the madman from the windows of the Capitol.
— 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

This was too much for the procurator’s wife; she doubted not there was an intrigue between this lady and Porthos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

General charges are also made against the enemy's cavalry, to drive it from the field of battle and return more free to act against his infantry.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

No spirit voice an answer gave, No murmur from the trembling wave Of sweet Godávarí declared The outrage which the fiend had dared.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The severe execution of the laws of Constantine had excited a spirit of discontent and resistance, the strenuous efforts of his son Constans, to restore the unity of the church, exasperated the sentiments of mutual hatred, which had first occasioned the separation; and the methods of force and corruption employed by the two Imperial commissioners, Paul and Macarius, furnished the schismatics with a specious contrast between the maxims of the apostles and the conduct of their pretended successors.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

Short of handling the steel himself I doubt if there was any man in the country, who knew more about the nature of all the deadly missiles, from the small rifle bullet up to the great shell which weighs a ton and travels some fifteen miles.
— from Lloyd George: The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot

] You are my friend, then?
— from Exiles: A Play in Three Acts by James Joyce

There is, therefore, no reason for the supposition that they are due to a Brahman revision intended to transform a poem originally meant for the warrior caste.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

He returned to the bedroom, and relieved Mrs. Featherston, taking a seat by his father's side.
— from The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story by A. Eric Bayly

On the side of content, they have advanced much farther than the textbooks toward what should constitute a proper reading course.
— from What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by John Franklin Bobbitt

The above cut of one of these machines, from the manufactory of I. Adams & Co., Boston, will serve to convey a general idea of its appearance; and the names of the makers are a sufficient guarantee of the mechanical perfection of its details.
— from A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. by James B. (James Bartram) Nicholson

I guess may be she was embarrassed some----" "That's what I told you, mamma, from the start," interrupted Irene.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

I crushed it up into a ball, and then, spreading it out on the head of the inverted cask, read, while my hands trembled, and my heart grew sick with many contending emotions, a long paragraph which Phil indicated, and which ran somewhat as follows, my friend the while standing quietly by my side, manipulating a cheroot prior to lighting it with a cinder from my little fire.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

I wrote from New York to the War Office, asking that my leave might be extended for another six months from the end of the year, on very urgent business that compelled me to travel in America.
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 2 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty