Sir Clement Higham, about a fortnight before the queen's death, issued out a warrant for their sacrifice, notwithstanding the queen's illness at that time rendered her incapable of signing the order for their execution.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

According to Pliny, vi. c. 34, Sesostris conducted his army as far as the promontory Mossylicus, which I think is Cape Mète of the modern kingdom of Adel.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

As language exercises some functions which science can hardly assume (as, for instance, in poetry and communication) so theology and metaphysics, which to such men are nothing but languages, might provide for inarticulate interests, and unite us to much that lies in the dim penumbra of our workaday world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Here Juno in all her terror holds the Scaean gates at the entry, and, girt with steel, calls her allied army furiously from their ships. . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Joseph Paice, of Bread-street-hill, merchant, and one of the Directors of the South-Sea company—the same to whom Edwards, the Shakspeare commentator, has addressed a fine sonnet—was the only pattern of consistent gallantry I have met with.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

So once more the fighting in Lancashire was over, and the stricken country had again a few years more in which to recover from its distress.
— from The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) by Ernest Broxap

She captivated hearts almost as fast as James the Second lost them; And Envy did but look on her and died!
— from The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

He now saw that Sir Charles had an ally full of resources and resolution.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

When she concluded he arose, and for a minute paced the floor in silence, his fists thrust deep into his pockets.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

Mumtaz could scarcely contain her anger and frustration.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

But if the intended victim, suspicious, should get unseen into the creek bed, the skulker could hardly avoid a fight.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

I thought I heard something—no—why, 'sdeath, I am not afraid—no—I'm quite su—su—sure of that—only every thing is so cursedly hush, and—[ A flash of light, and a tremendous explosion takes place.
— from Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton

At the first real lie which works from the heart outward, she should be tenderly chloroformed into a better world, where she can have an angel for a governess, and feed on strange fruits which will make her all over again, even to her bones and marrow.—Whether gifted with the accident of beauty or not, she should have been moulded in the rose-red clay of Love, before the breath of life made a moving mortal of her.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes