Joining in a Florentine expedition in 1288 against Arezzo, he refused to escape from a defeat encountered by his side at Pieve del Toppo, preferring, as was supposed, to end his life at once rather than drag it out in poverty.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The God of War Still another patron deity of literature is the God of War.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Of these two conceptions, that of the cornspirit as immanent in the corn is doubtless the older, since the view of nature as animated by indwelling spirits appears to have generally preceded the view of it as controlled by external deities; to put it shortly, animism precedes deism.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Si a pesar de eso, no nos quieres, si nos muestras tanto despego, si te burlas de nuestra religiosidad, si haces desprecios a nuestros amigos, ¿es acaso porque no te tratemos bien?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The powers of heaven were interested in their cause: Bridget of Sweden, a saint and pilgrim, disapproved the return, and foretold the death, of Urban the Fifth: the migration of Gregory the Eleventh was encouraged by St. Catharine of Sienna, the spouse of Christ and ambassadress of the Florentines; and the popes themselves, the great masters of human credulity, appear to have listened to these visionary females.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Dear Rhoda McMull will disengage the whole of the Castletoddy property as soon as poor dear Lord Castletoddy dies, who is quite epileptic; and little Macduff McMull will be Viscount Castletoddy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Even Susan, as Providence did ordain, wore a smile, though the effect was somewhat more painful than tears would have been.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The next of solitariness, A portraiture doth well express, By sleeping dog, cat: Buck and Doe, Hares, Conies in the desert go: Bats, Owls the shady bowers over, In melancholy darkness hover.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We sat with her for, I believe, an hour without interruption; and then we saw a phaeton drive up to the gate, and a lady and gentleman alight from it.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

A scar, an axe, a sword, a pink'd doublet, a rusty helmet, a pound and a half of pot-ashes in an urn, or a three-halfpenny pickle pot—but above all, a tender infant royally accoutred.—Tho' if it was too young, and the oration as long as Tully's second Philippick—it must certainly have beshit the orator's mantle.—And then again, if too old,—it must have been unwieldly and incommodious to his action—so as to make him lose by his child almost as much as he could gain by it.—Otherwise, when a state orator has hit the precise age to a minute—hid his Bambino in his mantle so cunningly that no mortal could smell it—and produced it so critically, that no soul could say, it came in by head and shoulders—Oh Sirs!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

As I did not disguise my intention of attending for that purpose, a question arose amongst the attorneys, the friends of the plaintiff, whether it was not possible to prevent my being present when the writ was executed; but, as I was determined, this was considered to be impracticable; and I own, whenever I heard such a proposition discussed, I treated it with contempt, being convinced that such a plan could never be executed.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

See Spain Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, offered Greek crown, ii. 19; decorated by King of Prussia, ii. 22; tour in Egypt and Palestine, ii. 175; refuses Greek crown, ii. 181; marriage, ii. 188; inaugurates Westminster Aquarium, iii. 100; P.'s toast to, iii. 223; death, iv.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

The different organs of the animal body, though easily separated and perfectly distinct, are loosely connected together by a kind of spongy substance, in texture somewhat resembling net-work, called the cellular membrane; and the whole is covered by the skin.
— from Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

Ali, who was called by his uncle from Zambo (?) into Moghrele-el-Aksa Morocco about the year 1620, and died in 1632, after having founded the second, and present, dynasty of the Hoseinee Shereefs, surnamed the Filei , 29.
— from Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson

Then he turned to his father a pleading look that might have melted his anger had he seen it; but Mr. Spaythe still stared at Phil Daring, as if dazed by the boy’s frankness.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And since all appointments of salary and place depended on his word alone, no career or fortune was truly secure.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

We stayed till all our means were exhausted and sought and prayed diligently for our way to open; but we could neither speak the language sufficiently to preach the gospel nor find any way to earn our living, so we found it necessary to return to California while we still study the language on board.
— from The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels by Parley P. (Parley Parker) Pratt

" "Slow, yes, when the pounds, shillings, and pence don't belong to you.
— from John Bull, Junior; or, French as She is Traduced by Max O'Rell