27 The first objects of their avarice were a few cities of the Rhaetian frontier; but their hopes soon rising with success, the rapid march of the Alemanni traced a line of devastation from the Danube to the Po.
— 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

In the Theaetetus the first of these difficulties begins to clear up; in the Sophist the second; and for this, as well as for other reasons, both these dialogues are probably to be regarded as later than the Republic. BOOK VI.
— from The Republic by Plato

Ilísi ang mga búlak nga nagkalun-as na, Replace those flowers since they are withering and fading.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mrs. Wilkins's quick eyes saw it all, and she said to herself, in the closet, as she cut bread and rattled down a cup and saucer: "That's what she wants, poor creeter; I'll let her have a right nice time, and warm and feed and chirk her up, and then I'll see what's to be done for her.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

As it is not in the common way of writing, the approbation was at first doubtful, but has risen every time it has been acted, and has given an opportunity in several of its parts for as just and good actions as ever I saw on the stage.' Addison's comedy was not produced till 1715, the year after his unsuccessful attempt to revive the Spectator , which produced what is called the eighth volume of that work.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

This order is certainly better than a semicircle, since it does not so much present the flank to attack, whilst allowing forward movement by echelon and preserving all the advantages of concentration of fire.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

This done, they broke their fast on the remains of the spoils of war plundered from the sumpter mule, and drank of the brook that flowed from the fulling mills, without casting a look in that direction, in such loathing did they hold them for the alarm they had caused them; and, all anger and gloom removed, they mounted and, without taking any fixed road (not to fix upon any being the proper thing for true knights-errant), they set out, guided by Rocinante’s will, which carried along with it that of his master, not to say that of the ass, which always followed him wherever he led, lovingly and sociably; nevertheless they returned to the high road, and pursued it at a venture without any other aim.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The obstinate character and long continuance of the warfare in northern Luzon after the great round-up which terminated with the final junction of the Lawton, Wheaton, and MacArthur columns near Dagupan, as elsewhere later throughout the archipelago, was at first very surprising to our generals.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society—toward cosmopolitanism.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The animal was apparently following the anise oil trail that Stacy had laid with such care.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in New England; or, An Exciting Quest in the Maine Wilderness by Frank Gee Patchin

Tom turned, and with a firm step walked out of the room.
— from Tom Thatcher's Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

There is evidence suggesting that Browne was a mechanic; Billington and Cooke had been trained to husbandry; that Chilton had been a small tradesman; that Edward Tilley had been, like his brother, a silk- worker; that Turner was a tradesman, and Warren a farmer; while it is certain that Cooke, Rogers, and Warren had been men of some means.
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 4 by Azel Ames

Then, Merlin, with a wise smile on his face, Such as a mother wears who gently tries To answer the hard question of her child, Answered Sir Bedivere: “Thou askest well, And fain am I to answer.
— from The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems by John Reade

As we proceeded along the road under a continuous shower of rain, our eyes now and then dazzled by the bright serpent-like flashes of the lightning, we fell in with some battalion or squadron, which advanced carefully, as it was impossible for them as well as for us to discriminate between the road and the ditches which flank it, for all the landmarks, so familiar to our guides in the daytime, were in one dead level of blackness.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

No doubt we ought to be grateful to God for this as well as for so many other blessings; but why are we permitted to be young only once in our lives, only once to be borne aloft on the wings of a tireless power of imagination, so easily satisfied with ourselves, so full of love, faith, and hope, so open to every joy and so blind to every care and doubt, and everything which threatens to cloud and extinguish the sunlight in the soul?
— from The Story of My Life — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

Why should you favor worldly things, and walk apart from the congregation, and live as if to-morrow were always to be as to-day, and as if there were to be no end to life, no calling to account as to how we have spent our time here upon earth?
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

Before Winston could reply, he turned and whispered a few brisk phrases to the waiting men.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

Although the true Israel, that part of the nation which has the conscience of service, has shaken itself free from the temptation as well as from the tyranny of Babel, and now sees the world before it as the theatre of its operations,—ver.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith