Greece, what is called the Social war: the first waged by Philip, son of Demetrius and father of Perseus, in league with the Achaeans against the Aetolians.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

His “Quixote” is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1. We learned in §§ 52 , 53 that only the accusative and the ablative are used with prepositions, and that prepositions expressing ablative relations govern the ablative case.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A committee makes the arrangements and tickets are sold to the public, either by being put on sale at hotels or at the house of the secretary of the committee.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Those persons, indeed, who have passed any time behind the scenes of this great theatre, and are thoroughly acquainted not only with the several disguises which are there put on, but also with the fantastic and capricious behaviour of the Passions, who are the managers and directors of this theatre (for as to Reason, the patentee, he is known to be a very idle fellow and seldom to exert himself), may most probably have learned to understand the famous nil admirari of Horace, or in the English phrase, to stare at nothing.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The veins assume an arrangement similar to that of the arteries, and the above remarks will therefore equally apply to the veins.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The crimes, and the misfortunes, of the suffering people, were presumptuously compared with those of their ancestors; and they arraigned the Divine Justice, which did not exempt from the common destruction the feeble, the guiltless, the infant portion of the human species.
— 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

The body is well formed, but the arms and thighs are rounded off like "flippers" or "fins."
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

This freedom will, among other things, permit of our openly stating the difficulties and doubts which we are ourselves unable to solve, without being decried on that account as turbulent and dangerous citizens.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

You, friend Arthur, go to the train and get the tickets and arrange that all be ready for us to go in the morning.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

There is something very comical, and quite "Hibernian," about the look of this breed, and they always appear to be open for any amount of fun, but they are also grand workers, and for duck-shooting, and retrieving in general, they are above the average in achievements, as they are above most of their fellows in size.
— from All About Dogs: A Book for Doggy People by Charles Henry Lane

But while a thermometer placed in that chamber showed that the men were giving off enormous amounts of heat to the air around them, another thermometer placed under their tongues showed that they were raising the temperature of their own bodies only about half a degree.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

The earth has but one more great prize with which to lure the avaricious and the adventurous: Africa—mysterious, opulent, alluring—beckons and calls.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

Their number is really prodigious, and they seem to me to propagate with portentous rapidity, for every day, in spite of the sweeping made by the gardener and myself, they appear as thick as ever.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

The preparations were soon made, each man carrying a supply of provisions; and then they filed cautiously along the track, keeping ever on the alert, for each man knew that at any time a volley from behind some clump of trees or rocks far overhead, might perhaps empty half the saddles of the little party.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

Mr. Belford's Letters prove, that he acts the second Part under Mr. Lovelace ; he follows the Paths the other beats through the thorny Labyrinths of wild Libertinism; he has not the lively Humour of Lovelace , altho' in Understanding I think he has rather the Advantage; and his not being quite so lively, is owing to his not giving such a loose to every unbridled Fancy; but he has less Pride, and consequently more Humanity: this appears in the many Arguments he makes use of to his Friend in favour of Clarissa ; but these Arguments, as they are only the Produce of sudden Starts of Compassion, and have no fixed Principle for their Basis, could have no Weight with Lovelace ; and the fluctuating of a Mind sometimes intruded upon by the Force of Good-nature, and then again actuated by the Principles of Libertinism, is finely set before us by Belford's Writings.
— from Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Sarah Fielding

But to call this by the name Necessity is to use the term in a sense so different from its primitive and familiar meaning, from that which it bears in the common occasions of life, as to amount almost to a play upon words.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

I remember to this moment seeing the body of the lioness in the air, and then all was dark as pitch.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

They are a tough, and hardy race.
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 by Various

Moreover, until the case had been decided, the accuser and the accused received the same treatment.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster