The work was finished in the spring of 560; Flamininus once more assembled the deputies of all the Greek communities at Corinth, exhorted them to a rational and moderate use of the freedom conferred on them, and requested as the only return for the kindness of the Romans, that they would within thirty days send to him the Italian captives who had been sold into Greece during the Hannibalic war.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

For the month of December, 1864 alone, the Confederate “burial report”; Salisbury, N. C., show that out, of eleven hundred and fifty deaths, two hundred and twenty-three, or twenty per cent., died in prison quarters and are not accounted for in the report of the Surgeon, and therefore not taken into consideration in the above report, as the only records of said prisons on file (with one exception) are the Hospital records.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

With the first graying of the night I was astir, and we were off by sunrise along a grass-grown trail at right angles to our route to Ecuador.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Its use in English teaching is most valuable when the teacher has a keen appreciation of the natural order of growth in the art of expression: that art requires, as the old rhetorics used often to put it, "a natural facility, succeeded by an acquired difficulty."
— from Stories to Tell to Children by Sara Cone Bryant

One of the men went back into the adjoining room, and the other remained standing before Murk, sneering at him, his hands opening and closing as if he would take Murk's throat in them and choke the life out of Sidney Prale's valet and comrade in arms.
— from The Brand of Silence A Detective Story by Harrington Strong

For the month of December, 1864 alone, the Confederate "burial report"; Salisbury, N. C., show that out, of eleven hundred and fifty deaths, two hundred and twenty-three, or twenty per cent., died in prison quarters and are not accounted for in the report of the Surgeon, and therefore not taken into consideration in the above report, as the only records of said prisons on file (with one exception) are the Hospital records.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4 by John McElroy

Practically all of these affections are thought of at times as rheumatic and the ordinary rheumatic treatment is given for them.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

One of the shorter sides was parallel to the Appian Road, and the other ran near the Church of S. Paolo.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

At certain parts of the road, it is utterly impossible for two beasts to pass abreast, or for one to turn and retreat; and the only remedy, when they meet, is to tumble one off the precipice, or to drag him back by the tail until he reaches a place where the other can pass.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch