In 1829 the hardy poet accompanied the Russian army which under Paskevitch captured Erzeroum.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

A gladiator who was practising with him, and voluntarily threw himself at his feet, he stabbed with a poniard, and then ran about with a palm branch in his hand, after the manner of those who are victorious in the games.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

In the positive doctrines of mediaeval alchemists and mystics, e. g. Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians, as well as their modern followers, the ancient metaphysical ideas of Egypt, Greece, and Rome find a new expression; and these doctrines raise the final problem—if there are any scientific grounds for believing in such pygmy nature-spirits as these remarkable thinkers of the Middle Ages claim to have studied as beings actually existing in nature.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

“Hang these Russians!” Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He took the road through Samnium, and marched at a great pace and without stopping, his skirmishers always keeping before him to reconnoitre and occupy all the posts along the route: and while those in Rome had their thoughts still wholly occupied with Capua and the campaign there, he crossed the Anio without being observed; and having arrived at a distance of not more than forty stades from Rome, there pitched his camp.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

When it is flood, the stream runs up the country between Lofoden and Moskoe with a boisterous rapidity; but the roar of its impetuous ebb to the sea is scarce equalled by the loudest and most dreadful cataracts; the noise being heard several leagues off, and the vortices or pits are of such an extent and depth, that if a ship comes within its attraction, it is inevitably absorbed and carried down to the bottom, and there beat to pieces against the rocks; and when the water relaxes, the fragments thereof are thrown up again.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

We promenaded around the rooms and went out to supper with them.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He peered about the room and was within an ace of touching me.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He came out of Mr. Wentworth’s gate and passed along the road; after which he entered the little garden of the cottage.
— from The Europeans by Henry James

Moreover, we do not know what influence these great poetic phenomena have exercised on our life; and I have forgotten what sage it was who said that if Plato or Swedenborg had not existed, the soul of this peasant who is passing along the road and who has never read anything would not be what it is to-day.
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

In every case you have with promptness attended to requests, always with a cheerfulness that is surprising to those who cannot understand and will not learn.
— from The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr

She grew paler and paler, more and more heavily she pressed against the retaining arm which encircled her, till finally her head lay back on the cushion of the couch; and Eugene Trevor started at perceiving her closed eyes and ghastly countenance, released her from his hold, for she had fainted!
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

If of canvas, the covering is tied to a pole and then raised and wrapped about the framework and secured with wooden pins to within about three feet of the ground.
— from Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls by Charles Alexander Eastman

He knew that he must expose himself to the charge of apostasy and of hypocrisy in affirming a change of belief, even to accomplish so meritorious a purpose as to rescue a whole nation from misery.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

But there was not sufficient transport in the place, and the retreating army was already losing wagons and beasts so fast that it could not carry off much of the accumulated material that lay before it.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

The Petrograd Soviet feared the Government’s intentions, and from the Front came hundreds of delegates, chosen by the common soldiers, crying, “It is true we need reinforcements, but more important, we must know that Petrograd and the Revolution are well-guarded….
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

“We have the payne and traveyle, rayne and wynd in the feldes” ...
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells