The foreigner and the merry damsel took their laughing leave and pursued the eastern road, which I had that day trodden; as they passed away the young man played a lively strain and the girl's happy spirit broke into a dance, and, thus dissolving, as it were, into sunbeams and gay music, that pleasant pair departed from my view.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labienus, postquam neque aggeres neque fossae vim hostium sustinere poterant, coactis XI cohortibus, quas ex proximis praesidiis deductas fors obtulit, 10 Caesarem per nuntios facit certiorem quid faciendum existimet.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Now, what supernatural machinery and heroic figures do for an epic poet piety does for a race.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Practical principles, derived from nature, are there for operation, and must produce conformity of action, not barely speculative assent to their truth, or else they are in vain distinguished from speculative maxims.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

A phrase perhaps derived from the term “Irish fruit,” which, by some strange peculiarity has been applied to potatoes; for even the most ignorant Cockney could hardly believe that potatoes grow in a bog.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Montague then collected and paid public debts from taxes imposed for the purpose and invented (in 1696), to relieve the want of currency, the issue of Exchequer bills.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It would seem then that, just as there was a long instrument for crushing the uvula and a short one for crushing haemorrhoids, there were corresponding instruments for cauterizing these parts, probably differing from each other only in the length of the handle.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

He should not rest satisfied until he has gained an assurance that all patterns possess definite figures, which may be latent but are potentially present, and that the ridges form something more than a nondescript congeries of ramifications and twists.
— from Finger Prints by Francis Galton

C'est au cours de ces luttes politiques, pleines de feu et glorieuses, qui marquèrent principalement le début de ce siècle, et firent tant de bien à la nation, que les barrières entre les castes commencèrent à s'abaisser.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

Again, it seems that the Athenians, partly from the discouragement caused by the disaster at Delium, partly from the ascendency of Nikias and the peace party, departed from the conservative policy of Periklês; not by ambitious over-action, but by inaction, omitting to do all that might have been done to arrest the progress of Brasidas.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

“I ha' paid Port dues for your Law,” quoth he, “and where is the Law ye boast If I sail unscathed from a heathen port to be robbed on a Christian coast?
— from Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

From 12 to 15,000 peasants poured down from the mountains of Ajaccio; our house was pillaged and burnt, our vines destroyed, and our flocks. ...
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

poem poemdiv Distraction from guilt.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

"I owe myself to society, and make a duty of paying visits from pure benevolence, because in every house I find people perfectly dying for my arrival.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Eating poisonous plants, decomposed food or drinking stagnant water, irritating medicines given ignorantly of their bad effects are frequently followed by inflammation of the kidneys.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

[151] Tacitus , after giving an Account of 50,000 People being killed by the Fall of an Amphitheatre at Fidena , during the Time of a Shew of Gladiators, has these Words: “Ceterum post recentem cladem, patuere procerum domus, fomenta & medici passim præbiti; suit urbs per illos dies, quanquam mæsta facie veterum institutis similis, qui magna post prælia saucios largitione & cura sustentabant.” Vid.
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro