The attacks of the Athenians upon Peloponnese, and in particular upon Laconia, might, it was hoped, be diverted most effectually by annoying them in return, and by sending an army to their allies, especially as they were willing to maintain it and asked for it to aid them in revolting.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The DHS had put FasTrak readers all over town -- when you drove past them, they logged the time and your ID number, building an ever-more perfect picture of who went where, when, in a database that was augmented by "speeding cameras," "red light cameras" and all the other license-plate cameras that had popped up like mushrooms.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Nunca antes se había sentido un tal sobrecarga de informaciones - como la sentimos ahora cuando tratamos de encontrar una información sobre un tema preciso utilizando los motores de búsqueda disponibles en Internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADVERBS Positive Comparative Superlative diû, long, a long time diût ius diût issimê ben e ( bonus ), well mel ius , better opt imê , best mal e ( malus ), ill pe ius , worse pes simê , worst magnopere, greatly magis, more max imê , most mult um ( multus ), much plûs, more plûr imum , most par um , little min us , less min imê , least saep e , often saep îus saep issimê 478.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Este trigo es nuestro.... Y sobre sus mejillas aradas por una larga miseria, corrieron dos lágrimas que cayeron junto con el grano en la primera bolsa de su cosecha....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The word would not have been exchanged, but that the housebreaker was unable to open the door: on which he was expending fruitless oaths and violence, when the Jew came panting up. 'Let me out,' said Sikes.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADVERBS Positive Comparative Superlative diū, long, a long time diūt ius diūt issimē ben e ( bonus ), well mel ius , better opt imē , best mal e ( malus ), ill pe ius , worse pes simē , worst magnopere, greatly magis, more max imē , most mult um ( multus ), much plūs, more plūr imum , most par um , little min us , less min imē , least saep e , often saep īus saep issimē 478.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A boy named Philippe usually loaded my pistols.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

“Ralph, I tell you, when we heard that the distinguished looking [166] gentleman on the black horse had come to ask that the battle might be stopped for a time, so that they could argue it out on some terms, every man amongst us felt like throwing up his hat and hurrahing for the plain, unassuming little man who commanded us, when he sent his answer—'No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
— from The Blue and the Gray; Or, The Civil War as Seen by a Boy A Story of Patriotism and Adventure in Our War for the Union by Annie Randall White

And if paralysis pops up, let me know.
— from Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Emlyn Williams

I have often been upon the edge of a steep place, such as a chalk pit or a cliff above a plain, and watched them down below, hurrying around, turning about, laying down, putting up, leading, making, organizing, driving, considering, directing, exceeding, and restraining; upon my soul I was proud to be one of them!
— from On Something by Hilaire Belloc

I wrote a faithful catalogue of what I saw, and the instructor picked up "Les Misérables" and read me the story of the last charge over the sunken road at Waterloo.
— from Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Simeon Strunsky

I never gets upsot by no matter what happens, so I jest fixes on one of them life-belts I always has handy whenever I travels on them high-pressure steamboats we hev on the Mississippi—whar you run the chance of getting busted up regular every trip—and thar I turned out of my cabin slick for anything, so I wer able to help miss, har, in shaking down that dreadful old screech-owl yander, and plaster up little missy arterwards.”
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

In these journeyings men seize upon little things and magnify them; discuss and rediscuss a phase until launched maybe as an empty joke it returns freighted with tragedy.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Grant it; so may Scythian Araxes be our vassal [14] sic Rhenus per utrumque latus, Medisque subactis nostra Semiramiae timeant insignia turres; sic fluat attonitus Romana per oppida Ganges.”
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

It was for the most part unskilled labor, mere brute force applied to moving heavy burdens.
— from Modern French Prisons Bicêtre; St. Pélagie; St. Lazare; La Force; The Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas; La Santé by Arthur Griffiths

Hess was born at Bonn in 1812, and was meant for a merchant's life, but turned his attention to studies picked up later, more especially to Hegelian philosophy, and entered upon the career of literature.
— from Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by E. V. (Ernst Viktor) Zenker