The next day, after first coasting along to the territory of Epidaurus and making a descent there, they came to Methana between Epidaurus and Troezen, and drew a wall across and fortified the isthmus of the peninsula, and left a post there from which incursions were henceforth made upon the country of Troezen, Haliae, and Epidaurus.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[A; c15] avoid the company of s.o. from whom one feels one can get nothing, discard a friend or relative whom one finds no longer useful.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This is one of the most difficult Parts of the Exercise ; but I have several Ladies with me, who at their first Entrance could not give a Pop loud enough to be heard at the further end of a Room, who can now discharge a Fan in such a manner, that it shall make a Report like a Pocket-Pistol.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

In former times soda was chiefly obtained from natural deposits and from the incineration of various plants growing by the sea-shore.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

I must now devote a few words to the effect upon our law of the other mode of proof which I have mentioned.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mr. Tim had married the girls’ waiting-maid, who had been a kind friend of mine in the early times; and I had to go salute poor Molly next day, and found her a slatternly wench in a mud hut, surrounded by a brood of children almost as ragged as those of my friend the blacksmith.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

So this went on for many times, the Judge seeming never discouraged nor discomposed at failure, but playing as a cat does with a mouse.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

He abandoned the now familiar Ionic for a new dialect, and for a long time onward limited his reading almost entirely to the Gospels and Epistles in Griesbach's text.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

No dining at Freemason's Tavern, opening subscription-lists, selling of shares, and infinite other jangling and true or false endeavoring!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

He quickly hid it beneath his blouse and then slipped it into his breeches, pocket, then pretended to be still looking for something on the ground which he did not discover and finally went off toward the market-place, his head bent forward and his body almost doubled in two by rheumatic pains.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

As the fall hath cut off the subordination of the soul to God in its actions, that it cannot now derive all from that blessed Fountain of all-being and well-being, so is this channel of reference of all our actions to God stopped, that they do not tend unto him, as they are not derived from him; and thus they return unto a man's self again.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

In short, the subject would not down, and finally, I was compelled to write again, telling them that the idea haunted me, and if they still desired me to undertake it, I should do so with my heart in the task.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

By this singular fact we are led to this important discovery, that to allegorise is no difficult affair, for the present allegory was “the work of a single morning!”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

So they began a new discourse, as follows:— Lady .—Well, I am satisfied this man has been ill used in the world.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

But she didn't: she was sick in bed the next day, and for two or three days.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

He waved a hand and accompanied his parents up the hill toward the waiting automobile, where no doubt a fond farewell was to take place.
— from Camp Lenape on the Long Trail by Carl Saxon

Before we take leave of the great delta, we may derive an instructive lesson from the reflection that the new deposits already formed, or now accumulating, whether marine or freshwater, must greatly resemble in composition, and the general character of their organic remains, many ancient strata, which enter largely into the earth's structure.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I was deeply though doubtless not disinterestedly anxious for more news of the old lady, and Miss Tita had accepted from me, as it were, a rendezvous which it might have been a point of honor with me to keep.
— from The Aspern Papers by Henry James

Never dreaming at first that his foe had withdrawn elsewhere than along his natural line of supply toward Liège, the Emperor considered the separation of the two allies as complete, and after carefully deliberating throughout the long interval he allowed for collecting his troops and giving them a thorough rest, he determined to wheel, join Ney, and attack Wellington, wherever found.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Turn which way he would he could not discover any footprints.
— from Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget by Harry Castlemon