El maldito ingeniero, favorecido por la tropa, está resuelto a todo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

As when we behold, first of all, the beauty and brilliant appearance of the heavens; secondly, the vast velocity of its revolutions, beyond power of our imagination to conceive; then the vicissitudes of nights and days, the fourfold division of the seasons, so well adapted to the ripening of the fruits of the earth, and the temperature of our bodies: and after that we look up to the sun, the moderator and governor of all these things; and view the moon, by the increase and decrease of its light, marking, as it were, and appointing our holy days; and see the five planets, borne on in the same circle, divided into twelve parts, preserving the same course with the greatest regularity, but with utterly dissimilar motions among themselves; and the nightly appearance of the heaven, adorned on all sides with stars; then, the globe of the earth, raised above the sea, and placed in the centre of the universe, inhabited and cultivated in its two opposite extremities, one of which, the 39 place of our habitation, is situated towards the north pole, under the seven stars: Where the cold northern blasts, with horrid sound, Harden to ice the snowy cover’d ground; the other, towards the south pole, is unknown to us, but is called by the Greeks ἀντίχθονα : the other parts are uncultivated, because they are either frozen with cold, or burned up with heat; but where we dwell, it never fails, in its season, To yield a placid sky, to bid the trees Assume the lively verdure of their leaves: The vine to bud, and, joyful, in its shoots,
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Almost immediately after his arrival, he was seized by order of the Emperor Rudolph, and thrown into prison.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The emperor refused, at the return of each fifth year, the customary donative of five pieces of gold, reduced his veterans to beg their bread, and suffered unpaid armies to melt away in the wars of Italy and Persia.
— 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

101 A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons; 102 but in the midst some that are, as it were, forgotten, who many times, nevertheless, prove the best.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The Edict registered and the Commandant gone, the whole Tribunal hastens back, to declare such registration null.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

One window opened upon a romantic glade, where the eye roved among the woody recesses, and the scene was bounded only by a lengthened pomp of groves; from another, the woods receding disclosed the distant summits of the Pyrenees; a third fronted an avenue, beyond which the grey towers of Chateau-le-Blanc, and a picturesque part of its ruin were seen partially among the foliage; while a fourth gave, between the trees, a glimpse of the green pastures and villages, that diversify the banks of the Aude.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Next, when sun, Up-risen, with his rays has split the soil And rarefied the earth with waxing heat, Again into their ancient abodes return The seeds of fire, and all the Hot of water Into the earth retires; and this is why
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

This consideration is sufficient to decide a Utilitarian to support generally the established rule against this kind of conduct, and therefore to condemn violations of the rule as on the whole infelicific, even though they may perhaps appear to have this quality only in consequence of the moral censure attached to them.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It wasn't till some year or so after the events recorded above that the praepostor of their room and passage left.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

‘It did not behove them,’ they said by the mouth of their burgomaster, Lievin van Schotclaere, ‘to protect a citadel which threatened the English less than their own liberties,’ nor was it until the invaders had taken Sluys and burnt the castle that, at last, the Bruges men consented to arm, and perhaps even then there was some secret understanding between them, for the English retired at the approach of the burghers, ‘slowly and without any sign of disquietude, rather after the manner of friends and allies than foes.’
— from The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

In this state of the case we therefore think it as well to use gallopavo for the eastern race, although the arguments of Major Leconte and others in favor of applying it to the wild Mexican, and its derivative the domestic variety, are not without much weight.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

For a while the echoes rolled among the folded hills and the tall gray crags, but at length they died away forever.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

His southern inheritance made it possible for him to apprehend if he could not actually comprehend the taste of a people who did not want the flavor of nutmeg 184 in their cauliflower, and who preferred cocoanut in their custard pie, and he realized that their education required all the diplomacy and skill at his command.
— from Outside Inn by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley

Then she went down the front flight and met the excited Ruth and the quite amazed Agnes in the dining room.
— from The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Grace Brooks Hill

“Don't swear, Mr. Haynes,” sounded in tones of soft gaiety from the end room, and the sweaterless one responded: “The half of it hath not been told you.
— from The Flying Death by Samuel Hopkins Adams