A few months before he died, he attended a sacrifice, according to the Etruscan rites, but the omens were not favourable.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

So she wisely determined to render her position with the Queen's Crawley family comfortable and secure, and to this end resolved to make friends of every one around her who could at all interfere with her comfort.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

By means such as these the extraordinary result was brought about that a multitude of men of diverse beliefs were all working together for an object known only to a few of them....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Kept on sniffing all the time; evidently recently caught an infernal cold.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

After things kicked off with what seemed a foot of snow around three, the elements really started to unload.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

United into one British brigade, the three Scots and the three English regiments served together under Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, throughout the wars with France.
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

Kohle sat at the tiller, Elfinger rowed, and Rosenbusch, as they glided along past the green banks, took advantage of the permit Rossel had given him, to play upon his flute some of his most pastoral melodies--doubly melting this time, for he was on his way to his sweetheart's side, and to Heaven knows what romantic adventures.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

The Danitza , the chief vessel of the Montenegrin squadron according to the engineer, runs twice a week from Rijeka.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

To me more dear such scenes appear, Than this eternal racket, No longer will I fret and fag!
— from Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Horace Smith

For, the sight preparing the way, it is soon assimilated to the eager receiving body; but that which is not desirable Nature either throws off again, or keeps it in for mere want.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch