Under his command, the Visigoths besieged the fortress of Ceuta on the African coast: but, while they spent the Sabbath day in peace and devotion, the pious security of their camp was invaded by a sally from the town; and the king himself, with some difficulty and danger, escaped from the hands of a sacrilegious enemy.
— 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

Ah! life's best hours are ever first to fly From hapless mortals; in their place succeed Disease and dolorous eld; till travail sore And death unpitying sweep them from the scene.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Hácense, además, sabrosos guisos con el maíz, al que acompañan numerosos complementos que le sirven de aderezo, desde el charqui o carne seca con que se prepara el locro en el sur del continente, hasta el pescado y la carne de cerdo con que se hace en Méjico el chilatole .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

" "Make some day a decent end, Shrewder fellows than your friend.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

An exclamation of surprise, displeasure, and disappointment escaped from the lips of all.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The home-sick dreamer's brow is nightly fanned By breezes whispering of his native land, And on the stranger's dim and dying eye
— from Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Not simply letters, but such documents as demand every effort for their immediate delivery.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The week passed swiftly, day after day echoing with the steady fusillade from marsh to covert, from valley to ridge.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He gave sundry directions about diet, etc., and wrote a prescription which was to be sent to the chemist at once.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

But whatsoever be the falling away of such, we shall desire and do expect that our Brethren in England , who continue faithful, may rest confident of the generality of all such of this Kingdom as were at first active in promoting [pg 408] the Covenant and Work of Reformation, that they are also still faithful in adhering thereunto, and walking after their former principles do resolve to abide stedfast and to hold fast the bands of Brotherhood and union between these Kingdoms: Neither are we lesse confident of the like Resolutions and Affections of our Brethren in England : The many Testimonies which the Truth and Cause of CHRIST, the Covenant and Presbyterial Government have lately received from that cloud of Witnesses of the Ministery in several Provinces and Countries of that Kingdom, after the example of the worthy Ministery of the City of London , against the Errours of Independency, Anabaptism, Antinomianisin, Arminianism, Socinianism, Faminism, Libertinism, Sceptism, Erastianism, and other new and dangerous Doctrines spred and received amongst many in that Nation; As they are unto us matter of great praise and hearty thanksgiving unto GOD, so also an evidence of the stedfastness of many in England , and a token for good, and a wide door of hope that the Lord will perfect his Work and bring forth the headstone of his House in that Land.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

The document was a release, given by Mrs. Stiles to the railway company,—a printed form, with blanks to be filled in as the individual case should demand; a devilish engine of cozen and covin, constructed in cold blood by the railway company, and supplied to them (as a small line of print at the bottom of the paper showed) by Detweiler, the Blank-Book Mfr., Irving Ave.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

189 Winged deities in Cilicia and Phoenicia, v. 165 sq. —— disc as divine emblem, v. 132 Winnebagoes, ritual of death and resurrection among the, xi. 268 Winnowing done by women, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

“Thou art churlish, old man,” exclaimed Ulf angrily; “sit down and drink, else—” “Come, come,” interrupted Haldor, laying his hand on Ulf’s arm, “Let the old man be; he seems to think that he has something worth hearing to tell of; let him have his say out in peace.”
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne