" When she heard the sure proofs Ulysses now gave her, she fairly broke down.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

He was bred a farmer, but a man of powerful understanding, natural good taste, and warm poetical feeling, perfectly competent to supply the wants of an imperfect or irregular education.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

PAOLO UCCELLO (NATIONAL GALLERY)
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Thus not only does teleology, which ought to aid in the completion of unity in accordance with general laws, operate to the destruction of its influence, but it hinders reason from attaining its proper aim, that is, the proof, upon natural grounds, of the existence of a supreme intelligent cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Orders were at once issued for recruiting the Oriental legions, and moving them nearer to Armenia; preparations were set on foot for bridging the Euphrates; Antiochus of Commagene, and Herod Agrippa II., were required to collect troops and hold themselves in readiness to invade Parthia; the Roman provinces bordering upon Armenia were placed under new governors; above all, Corbulo, regarded as the best general of the time, was summoned from Germany, and assigned the provinces of Cappadocia and Galatia, together with the general superintendence of the war for retaining possession of Armenia.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

The Boers are putting up new guns on Gun Hill in place of those we destroyed.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

Twenty-two votes were necessary to convict, but the administration was able to muster only sixteen for impeachment, and on one count Chase was proved unanimously "not guilty."
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

Mounting, he rode on again, but kept off all skylines, favored the rough going away from the trail, and passed to the eastward of all the obstructions he met; and his keen eyes darted from point to point unceasingly, not giving up their scrutiny of the surroundings until he saw in the distance a little town, which he knew was Hastings.
— from The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country by Clarence Edward Mulford

Pañka, Ponka a , Pañk unikaci n ga, Ponka people.
— from Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey

The higher officials have the best food the market affords and in such ample abundance that certain prison pets, usually negroes, get their main subsistence from the surplus.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

"Keep the muzzle pointed up; never get excited; never shoot at anything unless you know what it is," was Mr. Kincaid's summing up.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

He felt and knew that no sovereign can become popular unless national genius and talent meet with encouragement at court; and that, thus fostered, national taste will improve more rapidly than by the degrading importation of foreign perfections.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

This was from a Bari watchman, who, more awake than those by whom we must have passed unobserved, now gave the alarm.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir