Almohades (al′mo-hādz), a Moorish dynasty that ruled in Africa and Spain in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, founded by Mohammed Ibn Tumart, a religious enthusiast, who assumed the title of Mahdi .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

[ Since in these two sections we have an evident account of the Jewish opinions in the days of Josephus, about a future happy state, and the resurrection of the dead, as in the New Testament, John 11:24, I shall here refer to the other places in Josephus, before he became a catholic Christian, which concern the same matters.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and in summer; in the town and in winter they lose their charm.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But lo, in the Autumn night, late night, among the last of August, what sudden red sunblaze is this that has risen over Lyons City; with a noise to deafen the world?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Spenſer , I thinke, the younger, Had his laſt honour thence.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Having mended the watch, I sent it to the owner.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

For as the faculties of the mind are supposed to be naturally alike in every individual; otherwise nothing could be more fruitless than to reason or dispute together; it were impossible, if men affix the same ideas to their terms, that they could so long form different opinions of the same subject; especially when they communicate their views, and each party turn themselves on all sides, in search of arguments which may give them the victory over their antagonists.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The murderers of Tarquinius were arrested and his wife and Tullius learned the plan of the plot; but instead of making Tarquinius's death known at once, they took him up and tended him (pretending that he was still alive), and meantime exchanged mutual pledges that Tullius should take the sovereignty but surrender it to Tanaquil's sons when they became men.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

(But what I must now state is that the man who had trained and tutored the usurper was neither among the fallen nor the fugitives.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The general pursed his lips, looked directly at Burl, and said, "I think the time has come to acquaint you with the problem our world is facing.
— from The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Donald A. Wollheim

We had before Acre four steamers, the Gorgon, Stromboli, Phœnix, and Vesuvius; they had been throwing shells into the town the day before.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Napier

"I beg your pardon," I said irritably to Trenchard, "but your boot is in my neck!"
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

HE MAKES A HIGH RESOLVE AND LOSES A FAVORITE WORD Miss Margaret Ellison, the stenographer in the Temple Camp office, had once pronounced judgment on Tom.
— from Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Nurse says that at twelve o'clock to-night all the cows in their stalls will be on their knees, if only somebody is there to see.
— from Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Whereas there be, that pretend Divine Inspiration, to be a supernaturall entring of the Holy Ghost into a man, and not an acquisition of Gods grace, by doctrine, and study; I think they are in a very dangerous Dilemma.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The first settlers in the Town of Rutland were Joseph Dejean, John Prentice and Dan Pond, who located in its southern part in 1842.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

"And now, Mr. Wilks, now that I have heard your story, I trust that you will forgive my past suspicions of you, and let me say how much I honour and esteem you for your conduct.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Now, however his history may apply and whatever of his argument there may be that is sound and accurate or unsound and inaccurate, if we can find out what these men did themselves do upon this very question of slavery in the Territories, does it not end the whole thing?
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

From the very first moment when these two bodies were worked upon separately, I told the Queen that, till they were united for the same object, the monarchy would be unsafe, and at the mercy of the Jacobins, who, from hatred to both parties, would overthrow it themselves to rule despotically over those whom they no longer respected or feared, but whom they hated, as considering them both equally their former oppressors.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset