The stronger heads among them, like Strabo and Longinus, were as little disposed to believe in the truth of it as the modern reader in Gulliver or Robinson Crusoe.
— from Timaeus by Plato

“We will retire in good order,” replied the colonel, “to avoid having to return and make another attack with artillery and a larger force of men.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But they retired in good order, re-formed, and then drove out his wedge.
— from The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood

"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known, Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown."— Roscommon .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The regal sarcophagi, rich in golden ornaments, ranged one above the other, forming panels of the most decorative kind; the lustre of exquisitely sculptured bronze, the pavement of mottled alabaster; in short, this graceful dome, covered with scrolls of the most delicate foliage, appeared to the eye of my imagination more like a subterranean boudoir, prepared by some gallant young magician for the reception of an enchanted and enchanting princess, than a temple consecrated to the king of terrors.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

In delicacy, in refinement, in grace of rhythm and diction, he cannot be easily surpassed; he only wants the final and incommunicable touch of genius which separates really great artists from the rest of the world.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

It rasped uncomfortably, like rusty iron grating on rusty iron.
— from The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

Janet read the review in glow of remorseful affection.
— from A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan

To a larger tender on the part of Austria he replied: "If greatness or richness is to be mine, it must come from France."
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs