With grief the leader of the Lycian band Saw the wide waste of his destructive hand: His bended bow against the chief he drew; Swift to the mark the thirsty arrow flew, Whose forky point the hollow breastplate tore, Deep in his shoulder pierced, and drank the gore: The rushing stream his brazen armour dyed, While the proud archer thus exulting cried: "Hither, ye Trojans, hither drive your steeds! Lo!
— from The Iliad by Homer

[ In the loose and obscure chronology of the times, I am guided by an authentic record, (in the book of ceremonies of Constantine Porphyrogenitus,) which certifies that, June 4, A.D. 638, the emperor crowned his younger son Heraclius, in the presence of his eldest, Constantine, and in the palace of Constantinople; that January 1, A.D. 639, the royal procession visited the great church, and on the 4th of the same month, the hippodrome.
— 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

And when the explanation comes, have you not much cause to believe that it will redound to the praise of God, and that many things, in reference to which you could at the time see nothing but what was dark and terrible, may turn out when fully explained to furnish new and overwhelming testimony that “God is love?”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

When a child grows cross and tired he will trample every card house you build for him and toss his toys about and knock over his blocks, but at such times H. 3rd has never seemed divine to us.
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

Go on now to be seeking a lonesome place where the earth can hide you away; go on now, I'm saying, or you'll be having men and women with their knees bled, and they screaming to God for a holy water would darken their sight, for there's no man but would liefer be blind a hundred years, or a thousand itself, than to be looking on your like.
— from The Well of the Saints: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

The enemy cannot hurt you in the blockhouse, if you make the least show of fight."
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

You rebels against the established custom have your place in the great work of progressive civilization.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"For the English Church here, you remember," said Lady Chaloner.
— from The Arbiter: A Novel by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

The enemy cannot hurt you in the blockhouse if you make the least show of fight.'
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

[Pg 436] persons,—Joutel, Douay, the elder Cavelier, his young nephew, and two other boys, the orphan Talon and a lad called Barthelemy.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

The day that Mr. Ashley removed the dreaded visitor from her house, Jane had occasion to speak to Elizabeth Carter, her young servant's mother.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.