After remaining a week at Dijon, until thirty of our number deserted the vacant ranks of life, we continued our way towards Geneva.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Artfully counterfeiting his master's hand, he showed them, in a long and bloody list, their own names devoted to death.
— 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

That room with the balcony was the sitting-room, and the one next door to it was the kitchen.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

On the third day, the fleet and army moved towards Scutari, the Asiatic suburb of Constantinople: a detachment of five hundred Greek horse was surprised and defeated by fourscore French knights; and in a halt of nine days, the camp was plentifully supplied with forage and provisions.
— 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

It was built during the governorship of Niño de Tabora, who died in 1632.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

He only got that degree of beating which was, no doubt, good for him; and as for blacking shoes, toasting bread, and fagging in general, were these offices not deemed to be necessary parts of every young English gentleman's education?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

cry more: each grudging the other, none daring to be outdone in self-denial by the other.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Some of the tribes mentioned in the Rigveda , however, maintained their individual identity under their old names down to the epic period.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I never saw a similar one nor do the nations lower down the Missouri construct such.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To all intriguers life has lost romance; there is no poem left in nature; no ideal, personal, public or national, detains them in its wholesome influence; no great purpose allures them; they have no causes for which to die—save themselves.
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 3 by Gilbert Parker

I love Botticellina, and Botticellina loves me, and we shall both die of loving one another, and of not daring to tell one another, and of not daring to unite.
— from A Chambermaid's Diary by Octave Mirbeau

And even where there was little or no discussion, to stand silently in groups was something.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

Did not the prophet of Nazareth declare, ‘These signs shall follow them that believe’ ?
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood

After nightfall on the second day, Montrose, having confided his plans to Ogilvy alone, privately left his companions, who, seeing his aide-de-camp, his horses, servants, and baggage still with them, continued their march for Oxford, never doubting that their chief was following.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris

," said a voice at the door, as another model presented itself, in the picturesque turbaned head of Chloe, "yah—yah—you cheat ole nurse dis time, Massa Charley—" "Oh, don't take him away," said Gertrude; "lend him to me a little while—whose child is it?
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

18 During the time in which these events occurred, neither did those states of Spain which had revolted after the defeat that was sustained, return to the Romans, nor did any others desert them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy