Five sentinels rush through that long Suite; they are in the Anteroom knocking loud: "Save the Queen!"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

We may state the question thus:—Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly.
— from The Republic by Plato

That venerable name seemed to qualify its members to declare the sense of the nation, and to regulate the succession of the Imperial throne: the feeble Anastasius had permitted the vigor of government to degenerate into the form or substance of an aristocracy; and the military officers who had obtained the senatorial rank were followed by their domestic guards, a band of veterans, whose arms or acclamations might fix in a tumultuous moment the diadem of the East.
— 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

Had she actually stooped to quarrel with a Sloane?
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

For three years, Cromwell says, this question had been sounded in the ears of the Parliament.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

But how much all who believe thus are deluded, I purpose, since the queen hath commanded it to me, to make plain to you in a little story, without departing from the theme by her appointed.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Treason was a charge quite inapplicable to Cranmer, who supported the queen's right; while others, who had favoured Lady Jane, upon paying a small fine were dismissed.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"Thou art not of our people," said the Quaker, mournfully.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Finally, it became a common saying that "Queen Anne reigns, but Queen Sarah governs.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

She (the Queen) wishing to complain to her brother, Madame de Chastillon made her that fine remonstrance which will be seen in the story, and gave her that beautiful advice which is one of the finest, most judicious, and most fitting that could be given to avoid scandal: did it come even from a first president of (the Parliament of) Paris.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Every time that the movements of these servitors seemed too slow, either the pirates themselves, or former serfs of the abbey, who now saw their opportunity to avenge the ill-treatments that they had been subjected to, quickened, with kicks and sticks, the motions of the holy men.
— from The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion by Eugène Sue

Venner, the leader, who was wounded severely, and some others, were drawn on sledges, their quarters were set on the four gates, and their heads stuck on poles on London Bridge.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Ah! see you not where (fatal to your race) Laertes' son comes with the Pylean sage; Fearless alike, with Teucer joins the chase Stenelaus, skill'd the fistic strife to wage, Nor less expert the fiery steeds to quell; And Meriones, you must know.
— from Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Adam Lindsay Gordon

Then like lightning strokes shot the questions: Why should pain hide her happiness?
— from The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

He had studied the question for the last ten years, and now knew the rationale of it, and would be prepared shortly to publish it.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

They concluded they would have no difficulty about the matter, and agreed to leave it to the first gentleman they came to to settle the question.
— from Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales "The fiddle and the bow," "The paradise of fools," "Visions and dreams" by Robt. L. (Robert Love) Taylor