1, 55, Epaminondas did not deliver the army to his successor .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Indeed, if the plaintiff had a right which when obtained by grant would have entitled him to covenant, it was open to argument that he should be allowed the same action when he had the right by prescription, although, as has been seen in the case of rent, it did not follow in practice from a man's having a right that he had the contractual remedies for it.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But the olive complexion of the Abyssinians, their hair, shape, and features, distinctly mark them as a colony of Arabs; and this descent is confirmed by the resemblance of language and manners the report of an ancient emigration, and the narrow interval between the shores of the Red Sea.
— 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

‘After a while, instead of labels, the individual letters were given to her on detached bits of paper: they were arranged side by side so as to spell book , key , &c.; then they were mixed up in a heap and a sign was made for her to arrange them herself so as to express the words book , key , &c.; and she did so.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He smoothed his hair, smiled, and walked three times to and fro across the arbour, then he sat down on the bench and smiled again.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nor must it be forgotten that the privileges of the military profession by urging many too many to attend the higher schools, involve the downfall of the latter.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The chief obstacles in his way were the sons and grandsons of Tiberius; and these he soon sacrificed to his ambition, under various pretences.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I could not doubt, either, that he was there, because I was there, and that, however slight an appearance of danger there might be about us, danger was always near and active.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He described the scattering fire of the jagers, and the occasional dashes of the hussars, with great animation, though, according to his showing, this, like other rencounters of the sort, cost more powder than lives.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

These men put such a difference between them, that they straightway think all their holy service to be defiled if it be done by a good and honest man that hath a wife.
— from The Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel

But still Nod, although at every twist and turn he slipped up and down the sleek and slippery shoulders, managed to cling fast with arms and legs.
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

"This armoured train," he said, "is a very puny specimen, having neither gun nor Maxims, with no roof to its trucks and no shutters to its loopholes, and being in every way inferior to the powerful machines I saw working along the southern frontier.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

“I can’t think where they obtained their arms, Tom,” he said on one occasion.
— from The Black Bar by George Manville Fenn

“Them are the hours,” said Ebenezer, who knew better how to make money than to speak grammatically.
— from Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The young lord of the manor reeled as though a tornado had struck him, and fell heavily upon the ground.
— from Watch and Wait; or, The Young Fugitives by Oliver Optic