And this monster, that met with this holy hermit, was as it had been a man, that had two horns trenchant on his forehead; and he had a body like a man unto the navel, and beneath he had the body like a goat.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

se who must obey: I have Napoleon and Bismarck in mind, for instance.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When after a tearful parting from their mothers and women folk, who believe or pretend to believe in the monster that swallows their dear ones, the awe-struck novices are brought face to face with this imposing structure, the huge creature emits a sullen growl, which is in fact no other than the humming note of bull-roarers swung by men concealed in the monster’s belly.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Glum Geirason tells of it thus:— "I saw the hero Harald chase With bloody sword Bjarme's race: They fly before him through the night, All by their burning city's light.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Then all of a sudden it fell dead calm; there was not a breath of wind nor a ripple upon the water, so the men furled the sails and stowed them; then taking to their oars they whitened the water with the foam they raised in rowing.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The slight foundations of the Armorican republic had been repeatedly shaken, or overthrown; but the same people still guarded their domestic freedom; asserted the dignity of the Roman name; and bravely resisted the predatory inroads, and regular attacks, of Clovis, who labored to extend his conquests from the Seine to the Loire.
— 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

And if it were, nations are not authorized, by religion or by natural morals, to visit on the children of their enemies the misdoings of parents or of rulers.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

("Through night and blood to light"), and no work yet written conveys to the thinker a clearer conception of all that the red streak in their flag stands for than this deep and philosophical analysis of "War" by Clausewitz.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

What we have found once to follow from any object, we conclude will for ever follow from it; and if this maxim be not always built upon as certain, it is not for want of a sufficient number of experiments, but because we frequently meet with instances to the contrary; which leads us to the second species of probability, where there is a contrariety in our experience and observation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

"The living know they shall die, but the dead know not any thing;" that is, Naturally, and before the resurrection of the body.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

She struggled to firm footing right nobly, and brought me out alive on her back; but when I looked around me, I was all alone, Master, I was all alone."
— from Tales From Scottish Ballads by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

she went on admiringly, touching the arm of mamma's chair as she spoke, 'nearly as beautiful as my waggon!'
— from The House That Grew by Mrs. Molesworth

Fifth, All earthly property is of the Satanic order, which property the believer may use, but must not abuse: "But whoso hath this world's good (Satanic system), and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?"
— from Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer

The River Ardeche, in the French department of that name, has a perennial current in a considerable part of its course, and therefore is not, technically speaking, a torrent; but the peculiar character and violence of its floods is due to the action of the torrents which discharge themselves into it in its upper valley, and to the rapidity of the flow of the water of precipitation from the surface of a basin now almost bared of its once luxuriant woods.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

We tried, but in vain, to procure newspapers and books; we were reduced to masquerading, to donning the hussar’s vest for fun.
— from Sac-Au-Dos 1907 by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Iuana Creos is from Cape gallant Westnorthwest, and halfe a point to the Northwards, and betweene them is 7. leagues.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

He reminded himself just in time, and only just in time, that excess of laudation was not advisable, but he could not prevent his eyes from twinkling with delight.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Gissing

Miss Comstock, looking rather worn and tired, was still on duty and Mattie Clark was also at the field, looking very neat and business-like in her uniform.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler