On the banks of the Onon and Selinga, the royal or golden horde exhibited the contrast of simplicity and greatness; of the roasted sheep and mare's milk which composed their banquets; and of a distribution in one day of five hundred wagons of gold and silver.
— 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

He studied the rudiments of grammar under the inspection of Mardomus, a eunuch, and a heathen of Constantinople.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

They were slow to reciprocate our gratulations.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Unfortunately, a great chasm in the Annals of Tacitus, at this period, precludes all information from that historian respecting the reign of Caligula; but from what he mentions towards the close of the preceding chapter, it is evident that Caligula was forward to seize the reins of government, upon the death of Tiberius, whom, though he rivalled him in his vices, he was far from imitating in his dissimulation.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He said the gods could not drown him even though they had tried to do so, and when Neptune heard this large talk, he seized his trident in his two brawny hands, and split the rock of Gyrae in two pieces.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I spent these four days in the enjoyment of pure and innocent friendship without there being the slightest desire on either side to renew our guilty pleasures.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Each pilgrim was ambitious to return with his sacred spoils, the relics of Greece and Palestine; 67 and each relic was preceded and followed by a train of miracles and visions.
— 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

But Eteocles, being an ambitious prince, soon seized the reins of government himself, and expelled his brother from the throne.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Thus the passover typifies the atoning sacrifice; the unleavened bread, the purity and sincerity of the true believer; the pentecostal feast, the ingathering of the first fruits; the sabbath, the rest of God’s people; etc. 18.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

A ray divine her heavenly presence shed, And thus, his hand soft touching, Thetis said: "Suppress, my son, this rage of grief, and know It was not man, but heaven, that gave the blow; Behold what arms by Vulcan are bestow'd, Arms worthy thee, or fit to grace a god.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Therefore a Christian must rise higher, let his liberality serve also the undeserving, evil-doers, enemies, and the ungrateful, even as his heavenly Father makes His sun to rise on good and evil, and the rain to fall on the grateful and ungrateful.
— from A Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther

The rest of the Hollow was alarmed page 267 about it, especially the woman who was always ready to shoulder the responsibility of going to people with painful gossip under the pretext ‘I thought you ought to know.’
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

[Sidenote: The Resentment of Genius at the thumbscrews of worldly talent. ]
— from A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald

In sculpture the roll of great names is scarcely less wonderful than that of the great painters.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

What further strictures this rash old gentleman was [Pg 90] preparing to pass upon the statue will never be known now, for Tweddle already thought he could discern a growing resentment in her face, under so much candour.
— from The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance by F. Anstey

You know how we Communists seized the reins of Government in the month of March.
— from Stromboli and the Guns by Francis Henry Gribble

If you wish to spread the reports of gold and silver use that kind of quippo, so that the people seeing you far off may know the import of your message.
— from The Stories of El Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait

“Though textile industries exist on a large scale, the range of goods produced is still narrow, and we are dependent upon foreign sources for nearly all of our miscellaneous textile requirements.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

Listen:— “‘Now we raise the eye to range O’er prospect wild, grotesque, and strange; Sterile mountains, rough and steep, That bound abrupt the valley deep, Heaving to the clear blue sky Their ribs of granite bare and dry.
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne