I myself have seen at Lacedæmon troops of young men, with incredible earnestness contending together with their hands and feet, with their teeth and nails, nay, even ready to expire, rather than own themselves conquered.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

— The Five Thousand — a number never exactly realized — were soon [p. vii] enlarged into universal citizenship.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

She often made that remark to him, and he never took any notice, never even removed his eyes from the land, though his hand would sometimes mechanically search in his coat pocket for the stumpy roll of tabac and penknife.
— from Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley