This army of the Persians reached Euesperides, and this was their furthest point in Libya: and those of the Barcaians whom they had reduced to slavery they removed again from Egypt and brought them to the king, and king Dareios gave them a village in the land of Bactria in which to make a settlement.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Let us return the way we came; we may yet reach Gloucester to-night, though late; whereas, if we proceed, we are likely, for aught I see, to ramble about for ever without coming either to house or home.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“And he who in Signorelli’s picture healed the sick, and softened the rich, and felled evil-doers to the earth, who transformed the earth to a paradise and tempted the people to forget heaven.
— from The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel by Selma Lagerlöf

To end this history it will suffice to relate a few events in a simple way, and to give one last picture of its chief personages.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Also life studies that rank among finest ever done.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

At Sydney they remained a fortnight, enjoying the luxury of very good and very cheap dinners, for meat only cost from twopence to fourpence per pound.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 712 August 18, 1877 by Various

The priests became extremely jealous of Jewish physicians and of lay surgeons, and endeavored to secure through Rome a formal excommunication of all who committed themselves to the care of a Jew, while by canon law no Jew might give medicine to a Christian.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

She turned round and faced Elfie with pale cheeks.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

Every other branch of education, as tending to change the direction of the public mind, from military affairs into more pacific employments, was sedulously discouraged, and the consequence is seen, in that melancholy ignorance which is distinguishable in those generations of the French people which have sprung up since the revolution, and frequently even amongst the old nobility.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

Gradually he could pick out a row of pillars supporting the roof, and from each of these pillars he noticed a frail crossbar to the outer wall.
— from The Lost Mine of the Amazon A Hal Keen Mystery Story by Hugh Lloyd

Cooke, on his first examination, confessed that he had delivered tallies for ten thousand pounds to Francis Tyssen, deputy-governor, for the special service of the company; an equal sum to Richard Acton, for employing his interest in preventing a new settlement, and endeavouring to establish the old company; besides two thousand pounds by way of interest and as a further gratuity; a thousand guineas to colonel Fitzpatrick, five hundred to Charles Bates, and three hundred and ten to Mr. Molinenx, a merchant, for the same purpose; and he owned that sir Basil Firebrace had received forty thousand pounds on various pretences.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett