To Berengarius succeeded Peter Bruis, who preached at Thoulouse, under the protection of an earl, named Hildephonsus; and the whole tenets of the reformers, with the reasons of their separation from the church of Rome, were published in a book written by Bruis, under the title of Anti-Christ .
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Notwithstanding the judges were so few the trial was to continue; the king then, was condemned in advance.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

After a triennial indulgence of lust, rapine, and cruelty, Verres, the tyrant of Sicily, could only be sued for the pecuniary restitution of three hundred thousand pounds sterling; and such was the temper of the laws, the judges, and perhaps the accuser himself, 183 that, on refunding a thirteenth part of his plunder, Verres could retire to an easy and luxurious exile.
— 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

You must start from that spot and make your round, taking a spade with you.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So Rorik was vexed that the general courage should be sapped by the impudence of one man; and that the Danes, with their roll of victories, should be met presumptuously by those whom they had beaten of old; nay, should be ignominiously spurned; further, that in all that host not one man should be found so quick of spirit or so vigorous of arm, that he longed to sacrifice his life for his country.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Hour after hour, day after day, year after year, it was fated that he should stand upon a certain square foot of floor from seven in the morning until noon, and again from half-past twelve till half-past five, making never a motion and thinking never a thought, save for the setting of lard cans.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Scotch fiddle , the itch; “to play the Scotch fiddle ,” to work the index finger of the right hand like a fiddlestick between the index and middle finger of the left.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The fourth and fifth Iris seem'd of a bluish green within, and red without, but so faintly that it was difficult to discern the Colours.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The lowliness here, and the contempt of men in ver. 3, form the contrast; He is low, but He will not remain so; for the eye of the Most High is directed towards Him.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

He then said, that a mob would be there that night, if they did not come before that time, to search for the Record, and that it must be removed immediately.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

“Hanson!” cried Wyatt, stepping forward to gaze wonderingly in his companion’s face.
— from Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery by George Manville Fenn

When one is only five, the present quickly blurs what is past, and he wondered that, after all these years, he should feel the grip of something very like homesickness—and for something more than half forgotten.
— from The Lure of the Dim Trails by B. M. Bower

“And I thought that you cared for Oldroyd, Lucy, and—” “No, no: I hate him,” she cried passionately, and her cheeks turned scarlet for the sinful little words.
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn

The similarity goes so far that Soma and Haoma have even some individual epithets in common.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Descartes says that, after a long confinement, he was followed by an invisible person, calling him to pursue his search for truth.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully