But when Demetrius was informed of the death of Nicanor, and of the destruction of the army that was with him, he sent Bacchides again with an army into Judea, who marched out of Antioch, and came into Judea, and pitched his camp at Arbela, a city of Galilee; and having besieged and taken those that were there in caves, [for many of the people fled into such places,] he removed, and made all the haste he could to Jerusalem.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Then came occasional little interruptions of the silence, and one could recognize a man and tell his locality by his voice, or locate any other sound a sufferer made by his gropings or changes of position.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

He knew how hard it would be for a man like Mitya to pass at once so suddenly into the society of [pg 861] robbers and murderers, and that he must get used to it by degrees.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then find the King my master, and relate all my adventures to him.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

When the magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favorites if they had anything better to propose; and, finding them all silent, determined to follow the magician’s advice, as the most reasonable and most agreeable to his mild government.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The poor devil, who was woefully ill, was running about madly and trying hard to escape.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The lovely bride, with a silent blush that set her lover's heart on fire, submitted to this determination, in consequence of which the company was bespoke for that auspicious hour, and the evening being pretty far advanced, they took leave of the ladies, and retired to their respective homes; Don Diego and his future son-in-law being reconducted to their lodgings, in the coach of the Jew, who, taking an opportunity of being alone with Melvil, observed that it would be necessary on this occasion to supply the Castilian with a sum of money, in order to support his dignity and independence, in furnishing Serafina with everything suitable to her rank and merit; and that he would willingly accommodate him, provided he knew how to propose it so as to give no offence to his punctilious disposition.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

They will be rendered as miserable as they have made themselves sinful.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

We are men, as much as the Doge and his senators, and have reasons as much as they have to lay down the law of right and wrong, and to alter the law of right and wrong, and to decree what shall be vice, and what shall be virtue.”
— from The Bravo of Venice: A Romance by Heinrich Zschokke

Before they had been home many days, she came to King Alf and asked him why the fairer of the two women had fewer rings and meaner attire than her companion.
— from Stories from Northern Myths by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

Men do not seem to have been able to distinguish between an hypothesis and a proved conclusion; or, rather, the rule of presumptions was reversed, and men accepted the hypothesis as conclusive until it was disproved.
— from Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works by Thomas Alfred Spalding

Next day he reached a meadow, and there he saw little Alberich seated under a tree.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

[6] For a detail of our Author’s adventures, after he obtained the command of those American light-armed infantry, called Rangers , see the Journals of Major Rogers, mentioned in our Catalogue for this month: a work wrote, as he declares, ‘not with silence and leisure, but in, desarts, on rocks and mountains, amidst the hurries, disorders, and noise of war, and under that depression of spirits, which is the natural consequence of exhausting fatigue.’
— from Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes by Mary Cochrane Rogers

And now my shares don't represent as much as two hundred francs even.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

What interested him far more, was the fact that Monsignor Lelli had been sent to work out his repentance at Montefiano; and that he was undoubtedly on intimate terms with the Rossano family.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

The general thereupon despatched 200 Captain Nickerson, of his staff, attended by a single orderly, at the imminent peril of their lives, with orders to ride after Mills and tell him to leave the cañon, defile to the left, and rejoin him at once.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady