At this time it was that the garrison in the citadel of Jerusalem, with the Jewish runagates, did a great deal of harm to the Jews; for the soldiers that were in that garrison rushed out upon the sudden, and destroyed such as were going up to the temple in order to offer their sacrifices, for this citadel adjoined to and overlooked the temple.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In and out among vessels that seemed to have got ashore, and houses that seemed to have got afloat—among bow-splits staring into windows, and windows staring into ships—the wheels rolled on, until they stopped at a dark corner, river-washed and otherwise not washed at all, where the boy alighted and opened the door.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

If suicide really offered us this, so that the alternative “to be or not to be,” in the full sense of the word, was placed before us, then it would be unconditionally to be chosen as “a consummation devoutly to be wished.”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Mr. Huntingdon, I suppose, is not without the common faculties of men: he is not so light-headed as to be irresponsible: his Maker has endowed him with reason and conscience as well as the rest of us; the Scriptures are open to him as well as to others;—and “if he hear not them, neither will he hear though one rose from the dead.”
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

We circled for some time without doing much damage on either side; the long, straight, needle-like swords flashing in the sunlight, and ringing out upon the stillness as they crashed together with each effective parry.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In the morning Hymer arose, dressed himself, and busked himself to row out upon the sea to fish.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The Greeks called Africa Libya, and the Romans often used the same name.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I may observe, for my own part, that many persons of general’s rank certainly have an absurd habit of saying, “I have served my Tsar” … just as though they had not the same Tsar as all the rest of us, their simple fellow-subjects, but had a special Tsar of their own.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For this purpose I obtained from the library of the Rana of Udaipur their sacred volumes, the Puranas, and laid them before a body of pandits, over whom presided the learned Jati Gyanchandra.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The flutes and organ ceased when he withdrew, and a fifteen-year-old girl ran out upon the stage.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Men sought their homes with praises upon their lips, and the glad sound rang out upon the still night air.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Thereat bounding up high as a palmyra palm, that one whose saws had almost run out, uttered terrible sounds, lying on the earth.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

After they had eaten and washed up the dishes, Hugh mounted and rode off up the stream.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

Then the result of using the same intervals in another field is easily studied by moving the mask to another part of the solid.
— from A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma by A. H. (Albert Henry) Munsell

And suppose that some who have an active hand in carrying on the present publick affairs, have no design either to destroy Religion, or utterly to sleight it: yet the way they are on, and work they are about as it is contrived, doth of its self, and in its own nature tend to the endangering, if not to the utter subversion of Religion, for it cannot be denyed, but the very undertaking of this War, sets the once suppressed Malignants on work again, and successe therein puts them in a capacity to set up according to their principles abolished and abjured corruptions; which will be the more hardly hindered, considering his Majesties propension, and professed resolution that way, Especially seeing His Majesties concessions (though it hath been often desired) have never been plainly declared unsatisfactore by the Parliament.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It was in the beginning of the year 1720, about the middle of March, when Captain Shelvocke sent Hately and the rest of us to seek our fortunes in the lighter called the Mercury.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The eye stretches vainly to define the objects that fancy sometimes suggests, and the ear is strained to discriminate the sounds, real or unreal, that seem to mingle in the uncertain distance.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu