This she did thus; and she also piled up a mound along each bank of the river, which is worthy to cause wonder for its size and height: and at a great distance above Babylon, she dug a basin for a lake, which she caused to extend along at a very small distance from the river, 190 excavating it everywhere of such depth as to come to water, and making the extent such that the circuit of it measured four hundred and twenty furlongs: and the earth which was dug out of this excavation she used up by piling it in mounds along the banks of the river: and when this had been dug by her she brought stones and set them all round it as a facing wall.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The first act would have indeed lost its greatest and most sonorous picture; a scene for the sake of a scene, without a word spoken; as such, therefore, (a rarity without a precedent), we must take it, and be thankful!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This mirror (Fig. 128) is of such a shape that all rays parallel to the axis are reflected to a common point.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Our modern ideas of evolution might suggest the reverse of this—that human worship began with things low and gradually ascended to high objects; that from rude ages, in which adoration was directed to stock and stone, tree and reptile, the human mind climbed by degrees to the contemplation and reverence of celestial grandeurs.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"To sweat a slave to a race of slaves, To drink up infamy?
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Cavigni, meanwhile, informed her of the names of the noblemen to whom the several villas they passed belonged, adding light sketches of their characters, such as served to amuse rather than to inform, exhibiting his own wit instead of the delineation of truth.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The beautiful suspension bridge, built by Telford in 1820, over the Menai Straits, is only a mile away from this Britannia Bridge, but, at the time of the construction of the latter, it was not deemed possible by English engineers to erect a suspension bridge of sufficient strength and stability to accommodate railway traffic.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

Regularly, statedly, at stated times, at regular times, at fixed periods.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

There’s an automatic smoke-smelling gadget that sends a signal to a room on the bridge.
— from Ships at Work by Mary Elting

It was with a very ill grace that he complied, on that condition; and at parting he kissed my hand with such a savageness, that a redness remains upon it still.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

The queen did not smile as she took a rolled betel leaf from a tray.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.
— from The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

We were, in short, advancing steadily through a remarkable and very difficult country towards Poonaka; and the perception of this fact no doubt compelled the Bootan Government at length to sue for peace, and caused even the warlike Tongso to cease his opposition.
— from Recollections of a Military Life by Adye, John, Sir

An obliging young man fitted the little feet with the precious canvas slippers, and sent them away rejoicing with a pair for Cherry, promising to exchange them for others if they failed to fit.
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

She spreads it out, not to read what is written upon it—only to look at the signatures, and see they are right.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid