P. Decius Mus saves the Roman army, when brought into very great danger by the consul A. Cornelius.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

From all sides the roving Arabs were allured to the standard of religion and plunder: the apostle sanctified the license of embracing the female captives as their wives or concubines, and the enjoyment of wealth and beauty was a feeble type of the joys of paradise prepared for the valiant martyrs of the faith.
— 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

When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whatever the future may hold for them, whether they plod along in the servitude from which they have never been lifted since the Cyrenian was laid hold upon by the Roman soldiers, and made to bear the cross of the fainting Christ—whether they find homes again in Africa, and thus hasten the prophecy of the psalmist, who said, "And suddenly Ethiopia shall hold out her hands unto God"—whether forever dislocated and separate, they remain a weak people, beset by stronger, and exist, as the Turk, who lives in the jealousy rather than in the conscience of Europe—or whether in this miraculous Republic they break through the caste of twenty centuries and, belying universal history, reach the full stature of citizenship, and in peace maintain it—we shall give them uttermost justice and abiding friendship.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

On reaching the middle of the stream they raised a war cry and the trumpeters joined with the blare of their instruments, and Mago fell upon their antagonists from the rear.
— 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

“What,” cries Blifil, “notwithstanding all Mrs Miller hath said, I am very sorry to relate, and what you should never have heard from me, had it not been a matter impossible to conceal from the whole world.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Dr. Sprague, the rugged and weighty, was, as every one had foreseen, an adherent of Mr. Farebrother.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

A few rows of figures are enough to deduce misery from, and a few more will show the rate at which the political determination of the people is growing.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I know that, since the Revolution, along with many dangerous, many useful powers of government have been weakened.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I will put some steaks to roast and we can eat them in the boat.”
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston

One of these friends is said to have been Ephialtes, who destroyed the power of the Council of the Areopagus, "pouring out," as Plato, the comic poet, said, "a full and unmixed draught of liberty for the citizens," under the influence of which the poets of the time said that the Athenian people "Nibbled at Euboea, like a horse that spurns the rein, And wantonly would leap upon the islands in the main." VIII.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He would not stand still for an instant; and, when the musicians stopped to rest a while, he said to the clarionet, "Make your old bones rattle."
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

VII The Doctor When she awoke the next morning after a very few hours' sleep, she did so suddenly, to a full consciousness of her situation, and not little by little, passing by gradual stages to realization, as was her wont.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

But of these myriads of patent-medicine manufacturers, only a scant few achieved the size, the recognition, and wide distribution of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills and the other leading Comstock remedies.
— from History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

The metre rushes like the swift running of horses, sweeping the reader along with irresistible force.
— from Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers by Isabella Mary Anderton

This reply seemed to remove a weight from my mind, and I left Caulaincourt with feelings of gratitude.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

The sun in his beauty had sunk to rest, And with magic colours illumin’d the west, Casting o’er the temple his brightest gold, The temple,—Jehovah’s dwelling of old: The flowers were clos’d by the evening breeze, That sadly sigh’d through Lebanon’s trees;
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Snakes, for aught we know, may have the toothache: loose teeth they frequently have; they suffer from gum and mouth affections too, and no doubt can at such times relieve a whole jaw of its work.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

It is supposed to represent a woman carrying an infant, which rests on her right arm.
— from The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland by Samuel Cook