Too weak reasons for doing Laomedon such injury!
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Paul returned four days later, and the Babbitts and Rieslings went festively to the movies and had chop suey at a Chinese restaurant.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

An Eagle was chasing a hare, which was running for dear life and was at her wits' end to know where to turn for help.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Assuming an attitude, she began, “La Ligue des Rats: fable de La Fontaine.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I began by delivering the letter I had received from Don Lelio for Father Georgi.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At last, after two hours, the vote was reached by the previous question, with this result: For dissolution, Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell—2.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

rodorlic of the heavens, heavenly, celestial , Æ. rodorlīhtung (roder-) f. dawn , LPs .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Revue française de l'étranger et des colonies et exploration, 1900, XXV: 598–603.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

While his messengers were exploring the crannies of the rocks for dried leaves and sticks, Helen, totally overcome, leaned almost motionless against the wall of the hut.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

[840] As a reward for Don Luis’ signal services, particularly the peace he had cemented by an alliance so honorable to the nation, Philip IV., in the following year, conferred on him the title of duke, and gave him the surname de la Paz .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The surviving soldiers ran for dear life, and for the time being all opposition from that quarter was at an end.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Otto S. Fleissner & E. Mentz-Fleissner (A); 16Dec55; R161088. FLEMING, DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[64] for several months, it is generally considered as the irremediable diminution of the nervous influence, naturally resulting from declining life; and remedies therefore are seldom sought for.
— from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson

Thus by virtue of distinguishing love, some must be reprobate: for distinguishing love must leave some, both of the angels in heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth; wherefore the decree also that doth establish it, must needs leave some.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

In our new bivouac, where, game being abundant, and the weather warm, we lacked no comfort, except the society of our friends, we remained four days longer.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

Foreign Secretary Solf replied four days later with a note accepting President Wilson's peace terms as laid down in the "fourteen points" and the supplementary five points later enunciated.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

The developing countries' equipment rate for digital lines is equivalent to the rate of industrialized countries.
— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

Startled servant goes out to stables and wakes up the grooms, one of whom is soon on horseback riding for dear life to Dr Chinston.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume