The democratic party among the Lucanians made overtures to the Samnites.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Marsden objects to the statement that the stags are ridden upon, and from this motive mis-renders " li qual' anche cavalcano," as, "which they make use of for the purpose of travelling."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The friendship of the director, manager, and favourite members of the theatre she regarded as indispensable, whilst those frequenters of the theatre who, through their criticism or taste, influenced the public, and thus also had weight with the management, she recognised as beings upon whom the attainment of her most fervent desires depended.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Manday daghang anak, gastadur hinúun, Although she has lots of children, she spends money like mad.† mandi, manding n a title of address for an elder sister or female relative much older than the speaker.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When these representations were made known to Cortes through our interpreters, he immediately ordered Alvarado and Christobal de Oli, with us who were nearest to him, to march off to the Sempoallans and command them not to advance any further.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Univ. 458.—G. ——M. St. Martin observes, that the Scandinavian descent of the Goths rests on the authority of Jornandes, who professed to derive it from the traditions of the Goths.
— 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

I knew that they would be communicated to his lady, as they were; for, asking leave to attend the English service which was celebrated in her apartments, and frequented by the best English then at the Spa, on the second Sunday she condescended to look at me; on the third she was pleased to reply to my profound bow by a curtsey; the next day I followed up the acquaintance by another obeisance in the public walk; and, to make a long story short, her Ladyship and I were in full correspondence on transubstantiation before six weeks were over.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

But so it is; the more one tries to save you trouble, the more discontented you get.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And this view coincides with ordinary witchcraft theories; for witches have been variously defined as embodied spirits who have ability to act in conjunction with disembodied spirits through the employment of various occult forces, e. g. forces comparable to Mesmer’s odic forces, to the Melanesian mana , or to the ‘soul-stuff’ postulated by William James, or, as Celts think, to forces focused in fairies themselves.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Most of the Turkish social activities and entertainments are held in the evenings, that is, from tea-time to about dinner-time.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

He waited for a moment or two; then, "Stella," he said, "are you afraid of me?"
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

And while she rears them with a statelier frame Their soul she kindles with diviner flame, Leads their bright intellect with fervid glow Thro all the mass of things that still remains to know.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

In the midst of this terrific scene, an aid rode up to Napoleon and said, "Desaix is dead."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

Jeff watched him for a moment or two, then said, "What brought you here?
— from A Man Obsessed by Alan Edward Nourse

It was merely owing to the smartness of General Brabant, who sent two squadrons of Border Horse from Aliwal North to the rescue, that the small force escaped being cut off.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

But he was not satisfied with this bold attempt at the marriage of two things sometimes deemed hostile to, and generally held to be independent of, one another.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury