Now, upon the flight of Pompey and of the senate beyond the Ionian Sea, Caesar got Rome and the empire under his power, and released Aristobulus from his bonds.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

On returning home Pétya announced resolutely and firmly that if he was not allowed to enter the service he would run away.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In some countries, the story runs, a God was crucified by an arrow being driven through his body, which fastened him to a tree; the tree, with the arrow thus projecting at right angles, formed the cross, emblematical of the atoning sacrifice.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Virtue, genius, power, and riches are for this reason associated with height and sublimity; as poverty, slavery, and folly are conjoined with descent and lowness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

My eyes fixed upon the white gleam of her muslin gown and head-dress in the moonlight, and a sensation, for which I can find no name—a sensation that quickened my pulse, and raised a fluttering at my heart—began to steal over me.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Literature, history, and philosophy also received attention from him, and his Éléments de Philosophie (1759), in which he agrees with the theories of Condillac and Locke, was a work of much value.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

And, next, in doing this he is agonising his mother to no purpose, and in despite of her piteous and repeated appeals for mercy.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

35. lib. 1 , saith as much of a melancholy lawyer, to whom he administered physic, and Rodericus a Fonseca, consult.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They unfolded the paper and read as follows:— “ For my son .—The
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I have little doubt that it is the Asaldurga, or Asalgarh, of the Guhilot annals; where it is said that prince Asal raised a fortress, called after him, near to Girnar, by the consent of the Dabhi prince, his uncle.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Neither a great nor a rich country is anything, if only pride and folly are fostered; while isolation, poverty, and physical discomfort, if accompanied by piety and resignation, are frequently the highest boons which Providence bestows to keep men in mind of Him.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

"Here it is," exclaimed Sharpe, passing a copy of the Times across to his friend, who turned over the pages and read as follows:-- "Flying prospects for to-day:--South-east England and Continent, including the Channel crossing, favourable for flying for all types of machines till mid-day, after that conditions will deteriorate, squalls and heavy rains will predominate, visibility will be poor, and conditions will become unsuitable for cross-country flying."
— from The Phantom Airman by Rowland Walker

In December, 1881, President Jesse N. Smith of the Eastern Arizona Stake advised the Forest Dale settlers to satisfy the Indians for their claims on the place, and received assurance from General Carr at Fort Apache, that the locality most likely was not on the reservation and that, in case it was not, he would be pleased to have the Mormon settlers there.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock

It filled the mind with the calm satisfaction that is experienced when one gazes on the wide lawns studded with noble trees; the spreading fields of waving grain that mingle with stream and copse, rock and dell, vineyard and garden, of the cultivated lands of civilised men: while it produced that exulting throb of freedom which stirs man’s heart to its centre, when he casts a first glance over miles and miles of broad lands that are yet unowned, unclaimed; that yet lie in the unmutilated beauty with which the beneficent Creator originally clothed them—far away from the well-known scenes of man’s chequered history; entirely devoid of those ancient monuments of man’s power and skill that carry the mind back with feelings of awe to bygone ages, yet stamped with evidences of an antiquity more ancient still, in the wild primeval forests, and the noble trees that have sprouted, and spread, and towered in their strength for centuries—trees that have fallen at their posts, while others took their place, and rose and fell as they did, like long-lived sentinels whose duty it was to keep perpetual guard over the vast solitudes of the great American Wilderness.
— from The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But axioms properly and regularly abstracted from particulars easily [17] point out and define new particulars, and therefore impart activity to the sciences.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

The Indian could move a useful load, but to carry fifty pounds across rocks and fallen trees makes me tired."
— from Northwest! by Harold Bindloss

In the meantime, lord Loudon was taking the most effectual steps to unite the provinces, and raise a force sufficient to strike some decisive blow.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Yet when the Moderator left his place, after reading a formal protest signed by one hundred and twenty ministers and seventy-two elders, he was followed first by Dr. Chalmers, and then by four hundred and seventy men, who marched in a body to Tanfield Hall, where they formed themselves into the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin