[105] It is true that Villani not only says that ‘he went to study at Bologna,’ but also that ‘he went to Paris and many parts of the world’ ( Cronica , ix.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Government is going to build a life-saving station at Barnegat beach, and they have offered him the position of keeper, and he says he will take it if I will let Archie go with him as one of his crew.
— from The Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith

At length it founders (370): Minerva sends a brisk Boreas, and the hero drifts to Scheria, arriving on the third day (382-98).
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

The plain beyond is stony and barren, but at the head of St. Stephen’s Cove there is a barranco or ravine, bounded by rocks on either side, where there are fruit trees and garden vegetables of all kinds.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

It must be confessed that the Franco-Russian alliance struck a bitter blow at the hopes of Polish patriots.
— from The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam

It is said that the priests entered upon their official duties at thirty years of age, and were then set apart by baptism, and that hence Jesus, when “he began to be about thirty years of age,” came to be baptized, and enter upon his official work; and reference is made to Num.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

The forest was thick, and had an undergrowth of dwarf spruce and brambles, but as the horse had become fidgety and "scary" on the track, I turned off in the idea of taking a short cut, and was sitting carelessly, shortening my stirrup, when a great, dark, hairy beast rose, crashing and snorting, out of the tangle just in front of me.
— from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

They put the stones and brush back as they had been placed by Hoyt, and then Harry led the way to a secluded spot where they would not be seen, even in the unlikely chance of anybody coming that way.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various

"I fear me, mother," he said, "that Major [62] Bonnet's ship has gone on some secret and bad business, and that he is mixed up in it.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

* On that same night desperate sorties were made from the London, Southwark, and Blackfriars Bridges, and terrible havoc was committed by the Defenders.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux