This whole splendid outfit was captured, as rumour reports, in the battle of Podhajce, 202 from a certain Turkish noble of very high station.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

And in some, where they are set on with care and repeated impressions, either through the temper of the body, or some other fault, the memory is very weak.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

For the time had gone by when any oppression of the allies could appear wrong, seeing that atrocities so outrageous were committed against Roman citizens.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Pike is also observed to be a solitary, melancholy, and a bold fish; melancholy, because he always swims or rests himself alone, and never swims in shoals or with company, as Roach and Dace, and most other fish do: and bold, because he fears not a shadow, or to see or be seen of anybody, as the Trout and Chub, and all other fish do.
— from The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

You discard a faithful, honest, responsible agent, whose integrity and fidelity you have known for twenty years, and you place your estate in the hands and at the disposal of twenty or thirty entire strangers, of whose character and responsibility you know nothing, nor have the means of acquiring any knowledge, and over whose conduct you have no control.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Now for your other sortes of Wheate, that is to say, the white Pollard and the Organe, they are graines nothing so great, full, and large, as the whole straw, or browne Pollard, but small, bright, and very thinly huskt: your Organe is very red, your Pollard somewhat pale: these two sorts of Wheate are best to be sowne vpon the third or fourth field, that is to say, after your Pease, for they can by no meanes endure an ouer rich ground, as being tender and apt to sprout with small moisture, but to mildew and choake with too much fatnesse, the soyles most apt for them are mixt earths, especially the blacke clay and red sand, or white clay and red sand, for as touching other mixtures of grounds, they are for the most part so barraine, that they will but hardly bring forth Wheate vpon their fallow field, and then much worse vpon a fourth field.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

Therefore, though the latter illustration is an improvement on the former, we must still seek one which closer approaches reality.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

During his absence of two summers and a winter, which made up the term of a Newfoundland ‘spell,’ many unlooked-for changes had occurred within the quiet little seaport, some of which closely affected Roger the sailor.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

The fibro-vascular bundle is of the radial type, there being two masses of xylem ( xy. ) joined in the middle, and separating the two phloem masses ( ph. ), some of whose cells are rather thicker walled than the others.
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell

In the upper corner next the staff was a square of white containing a red cross.
— from The Little Book of the Flag by Eva March Tappan

At the close an enormous pie was brought in, the sight of which caused a ripple of well-bred applause.
— from Lost Diaries by Maurice Baring

One young man would fill the water buckets at a neighboring hydrant, another would bring in coal, and some other would carry away refuse.
— from A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

she returned, bringing word that a British squadron, consisting of the 36-gun frigate "Phœbe," Captain James Hillyar, and the sloops of war "Cherub" and "Raccoon," had sailed for the Pacific.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan