But now concerning his further procee 45 dings, concerning his victorious both entrance and cōtinuance within the Realme of England , two points are worthy to be considered: one, how he being a man of no great either power or dominion, did so suddenly preuaile against a couragious King, possessed of a large and puissant State.
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

It was among the ancient Dorians, who descended from the mountains of Northern Greece eighty years after the fall of Troy, that art first appeared.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

The manors of East Lynn and West Lynn, and even that of Woolhanger—although just then all three were at issue about some rights of wreck, and the hanging of a sheep-stealer (a man of no great eminence, yet claimed by each for the sake of his clothes)—these three, having their rights impugned, or even superseded, as they declared by the quartering of soldiers in their neighbourhood, united very kindly to oppose the King's Commissioner.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Who can forget the Greek adventurer of the third satire?— grammaticus rhetor geometres pictor aliptes augur schoenobates medicus magus, omnia novit Graeculus esuriens; in caelum miseris, ibit (iii. 76); A cook, a conjurer, a rhetorician, A painter, pedant, a geometrician, A dancer on the ropes and a physician; All things the hungry Greek exactly knows, And bid him go to heaven, to heaven he goes.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

The central parts of this island consist of irregularly rounded mountains of no great elevation, composed of trachyte, which closely resembles in general character the trachyte of Ascension, presently to be described.
— from Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

‘No feathers!’ cries the lady, as if on wings of black feathers dead people fly to Heaven, and, lacking them, they must of necessity go elsewhere.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

The choir of Bayeux is a masterpiece of Norman Gothic erected by Robert des Ablêges (1206-31), who died a crusader, and by the two successive bishops.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

The Dorians, who descended from the mountains of northern Greece, eighty years after the fall of Troy, were the first who added substantially to the architectural art of Asiatic nations, by giving simplicity and harmony to their temples.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

In concluding this review of methods of advertising, other than advertisements in periodical publications, we may add that the most extraordinary attempt at advertisement which is known to exist is to be found at the churchyard at Godalming, Surrey, where the following epitaph was placed upon a Sacred To the memory of Nathaniel Godbold Esq, inventor & Proprietor of that excellent medicine The Vegetable Balsam
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg