The soldier observed, with a countenance in which impudence and shame struggling, produced some disorder, that if I had not been in such a d—d hurry to get out of the coach, he would have secured the rogues effectually, without all this bustle and loss of time, by a scheme, which my heat and precipitation ruined.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He was still shouting when a windsquall swept him into the sea; the raging elements whirled him around and around in a terrible maelstrom and sucked him down.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Biorn is said to have had a horse which was splendid and of exceeding speed, so that when all the rest were powerless to cross the river it alone stemmed the roaring eddy without weariness.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

A temple was erected here to Alexander the Great, in which Alexander Severus, the Roman Emperor, was born, his parents having resorted thither to celebrate a festival, A.D. 205.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Yet if we assume this unity of the mode of cognition to be attached to the object of cognition, if we regard that which is merely regulative to be constitutive, and if we persuade ourselves that we can by means of these Ideas enlarge our cognition transcendently, or far beyond all possible experience, while it only serves to render experience within itself as nearly complete as possible, i.e., to limit its progress by nothing that cannot belong to experience: we suffer from a mere misunderstanding in our estimate of the proper application of our reason and of its principles, and from a Dialectic, which both confuses the empirical use of reason, and also sets reason at variance with itself.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The first words which broke from the king, when his practised eye had surveyed the Roman encampment, were full of meaning: "These barbarians," he said, "have nothing barbarous in their military arrangements."
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The same susceptibility to religious emotion, which had produced so general a conversion that the conquest of Spain was effected by a Berber general and twelve thousand Berber troops, soon led to further movements.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[Pg 112] Virgil shudders to record, even while he seems to praise it; for when he says, "And call his own rebellious seed For menaced liberty to bleed," he immediately exclaims, "Unhappy father!
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In his lofty citadel Aeolus sits sceptred, assuages their temper and soothes their rage; else would they carry with them seas and lands, and the depth of heaven, and sweep them through space in their flying course.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Seeing that Rhodopis’ eyes were filling with tears, Kassandane went on: “There is, however, a good way out of our perplexity.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

She looked so pale and strange that Rosa exclaimed when she saw her.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

So He speaks to him as one of a class, and thus somewhat softens the rebuke even while the answer to the nobleman's petition seems thereby to become still less direct, and His own sorrowful gaze at the wide-reaching spirit of blindness seems thereby to become more absorbed and less conscious of the individual sufferer kneeling at His feet.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

"Perhaps you will answer this question," he said, "why did Doctor van Heerden secure an appointment for you at Punsonby's, and why, when you were there, did you steal three registered envelopes which you conveyed to the doctor?"
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

The positive means of avoiding and of banishing distractions are given above; they are to read slowly, to read every word, to read in a becoming position, to observe choir directions, to give ample time to each Hour.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

This individual carefully examined his prisoners and found that three of them were so severely wounded as to afford little hope of their recovery; these three he therefore despatched with the most callous sang-froid by driving his broad-bladed spear into their throats, after which they were flung over the side; the remaining eight, who appeared to be only temporarily disabled, were trussed up, hand and foot, with thin, tough, pliant creeper, cut from the adjacent jungle, and bestowed, without much consideration for their comfort, in the bottom of our canoe.
— from A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story by Harry Collingwood

In the matter of the British prisoners he was unable, he said, to recall exactly what had become of them, but, after all, it was an unimportant matter!
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

While Fremont was clambering down the eastern slope, studying the renegade Englishman whenever opportunity offered, and puzzling over the source of the fellow's information concerning the Cameron building and the Tolford estate papers, Ned Nestor and his companions were preparing to visit the interior of the strange shelter-place in which they found themselves.
— from Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson