The family of Ibelin, which descended from a younger brother of a count of Chartres in France, long flourished in Palestine and Cyprus, (see the Lignages de deca Mer, or d'Outremer, c. 6, at the end of the Assises de Jerusalem, an original book, which records the pedigrees of the French adventurers.)
— 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

Eek thee ne oughte nat ben yvel apayed, Though I desyre with thee for to bere 650 Thyn hevy charge; it shal the lasse dere.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Some say that Lykurgus died at Kirrha, but Apollothemis says that he was taken to Elis and died there, and Timaeus and Aristoxenus say that he ended his days in Crete.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“So far as I understand—and it’s impossible not to understand it—you yourself at first and a second time later, drew with great eloquence, but too theoretically, a picture of Russia covered with an endless network of knots.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In our times, and in our country, which I hope you love as much as I do, for as far as I am concerned, I am ready to shed the last drop of my blood...
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The cavalry may penetrate the intervals and scatter them like dust before the whirlwind.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Not with less rage the rattling thunder falls, Or stones from batt’ring-engines break the walls: Swift as a whirlwind, from an arm so strong, The lance drove on, and bore the death along.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

"I could not wear great, coarse, hard shoes," said the little Doña Iñes; "it would spoil my feet.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Chateau or Hotel, were an enlightened Philosophism scrutinises many things, is not given to prayer: neither are Rossbach victories, Terray Finances, nor, say only 'sixty thousand Lettres de Cachet' ( which is Maupeou's share ), persuasives towards that.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Several times Lord de Winter, Porthos, or Aramis tried to talk with the man in the red cloak; but to every interrogation which they put to him he bowed, without response.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

No. Ever shown the least desire that the condition of the masses should be improved?
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard

He spent the long days of his hiding almost entirely in writing.
— from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Upon second thought Lem declined to put his own people in jeopardy.
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

o put to death Rubellius Plautus, the last descendant of Tiberius, as he afterwards put to death L. Junius Silanus, the last descendant of Augustus.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

"Have you ever seen that lady down here before, sergeant?" asked Walter presently.
— from The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime by William Le Queux

He was for a time private secretary to Lord Durham.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a passage about four feet square, then let down a small ladder upon which I mounted, and from thence was taken into the ship in a very weak condition.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Hitherto the Grecians seem to have taken post in the narrowest part of the valley, where, as has been mentioned, there was only room for one carriage to pass; but now, knowing that their fate was sealed, and anxious only to sell their lives dearly, they retreated to the broader part, which had formerly been fortified, with the view of allowing freer access, and insuring a more abundant destruction of their foes.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin