In Dec. 1820, owing to the representations of Col. Gurwood and Sir H. Torrens, the Duke of York promoted Dyas a capt.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

He told her all about the Cyclops and how he had punished him for having so ruthlessly eaten his brave comrades; how he then went on to Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygonian city Telepylos, where the people destroyed all his ships with their crews, save himself and his own ship only.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I knew then that it was after my Saviour's will that I should enter upon this work; so I applied to the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews, and I was accepted on June 9th, on the [324] recommendation of Pastors Dworkowicz, Aston and Frank, of Hamburg.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But if the Spanish Captains chance to exceed this Commission, and rob and plunder at Discretion, the Sufferers are allowed to complain, and exhibit a Process in their Court, and after great Expence of Suit, Delay of Time, and other Inconveniencies, obtain a Decree in their Favour, but then when the Ship and Cargo comes to be claim’d, with Costs of Suit, they find, to their Sorrow, that it has been previously condemn’d, and the Plunder divided among the Crew; the Commander that made the Capture, who alone is responsible, is found to be a poor raskally Fellow, not worth a Groat, and, no doubt, is plac’d in that Station for the like Purposes.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

And if here we are always content to retain the form without lamenting the discarded matter, we ought to bear ourselves in the same way if in death the same thing happens, in a higher degree and to the whole, as takes place daily and hourly in a partial manner in excretion: if we are indifferent to the one, we ought not to shrink from the other.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

You are aware that after being suspended for a long time, I have, through the influence of M. Mellarede, obtained permission to resume my priestly duties, as a means of livelihood.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Her pale draperies, and the background of foliage against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like curves that swept upward from her poised foot to her lifted arm.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

You will stop all mining work at once, close the entrances to the galleries and put down a bed of concrete ten feet thick, level.
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

Panama was founded by Pedrarias de Avila, who was governor of Tierra Firme, in the name of the invincible Cæsar Don Carlos, the august King of Spain, our lord, in the year 1520.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

Again the slow, slow progress; driven and whipped now by the thought that at this very instant—or this one—the boys might be giving out, relaxing hold, abandoning hope, and slipping numb and unconscious into the rising, chuckling water.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

"Very well," he exclaimed with a sort of petulant dignity, and, pushing back his chair, half rose.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

Corrections in line drawings with pen should be made either with an ink eraser, a razor, the razor knife, or by painting over the place with Chinese white, or, if it be large, by pasting down a bit of paper on it.
— from The Illustration of Books A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College by Joseph Pennell

Forward we were swinging the head yards, and she started to box off, while aft a secondary commotion centered about the wheelhouse, with Captain Nichols acting the part of Satan, in yellow silk pajamas, and Black Joe performing duty as the Butt of All Evil.
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

The annual celebrations of 'Primrose Day,' April 19, the anniversary of his death, are sufficient proof that this great statesman's services to the British Empire are not yet forgotten.
— from Queen Victoria by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne

Suddenly, Russ Parker did an about-face and began talking.
— from Secret Mission to Alaska Sandy Steele Adventures #5 by Robert Leckie

Have you?” “Plenty,” declared Allerton, making an effort to rise from the puddle.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum