Go, lictor, says he, remove the crowd; and make way for the master to lay hold of his slave.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The latter, however, when he thus saw his rival triumph, lost at the same time his head and his footing on the rope; he threw his pole away, and shot downwards faster than it, like an eddy of arms and legs, into the depth.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So he respected them as he ought to do, and married them to wives, now they were of an age suitable thereto.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The lady, who had hidden herself near the door, no sooner saw him run to the well than she slipped into the house and locked herself in; then, getting her to the window, 'You should water your wine, whenas you drink it,' quoth she, 'and not after and by night.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I have more than once observed that in my second character, my faculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

After a second or so he recognised the girl.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Sancho recognised them at once, and determined to keep secret the place and circumstances where and under which he had left his master, so he replied that his master was engaged in a certain quarter on a certain matter of great importance to him which he could not disclose for the eyes in his head.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Unless freedom strengthen her reason till she comprehend her duty, and see in what manner it is connected with her real good?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

That which operates probably more than anything else to induce good men drawing good salaries to abandon the service * * * is the knowledge that they have nothing to look forward to [ 594 ] when broken health or old age shall have rendered them valueless to the government.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

If by this question, said the incensed Arabella, you would persuade me you are ignorant of the cause of my flight, know, your dissimulation will not succeed; and that, having reason to believe you are equally guilty with him from whose intended violence I fled, I shall have recourse to the valour of this knight you see with me, to defend me, as well against you, as that ravisher, with whom I see you leagued.—Ah!
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

Harriet's health seemed to have improved since her return to town.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

For this success he received the triumphal ornaments, and in a short time after two priesthoods, besides the consulship, which he held during the two last months of the year 734 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Her husband always had tickets for lectures; in moments of irritation at the want of a certain sequence in their career, she had remarked to him that it was the only thing he did have.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James

Three years passed away after the fatal encounter mentioned in the last Chapter, and Doctor Hartley returning from his appointed mission, which was only temporary, received encouragement to settle in Madras in a medical capacity; and upon having done so, soon had reason to think he had chosen a line in which he might rise to wealth and reputation.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

"I reckoned as much as soon as I see you boys in your running togs," the tollgate keeper went on to say, affably enough, "because there was a gent up here only yesterday that said he represented the committee, and that they expected to have what they called a registering station here at the toll-gate, though I don't just know what that really means."
— from Fred Fenton Marathon Runner: The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman

While she was accommodating "the milky mother" with the food which she should have received two hours sooner, a slipshod wench peeped into the stable, and perceiving that a stranger was employed in discharging the task which she, at length, and reluctantly, had quitted her slumbers to perform, ejaculated, "Eh, sirs!
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

It was a bad habit, in those days, to make one's presence known in the woods, and in this case Tom's whistling proved most serious, for suddenly, he realized that three dusky figures were creeping up the hill slope behind him.
— from Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster

But when the secretary had repeated the proposal which had earlier gone unheard, Gustavus caught at it with sudden avidity, and with but little concern for the danger that Bjelke might be running.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

The actual limit is when the star has reached the density of a neutron, and this star hasn't collapsed that far by a long shot.
— from Islands of Space by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)