But Joseph, considering and reasoning about the dream, said to him, that he would willingly be an interpreter of good events to him, and not of such as his dream denounced to him; but he told him that he had only three days in all to live, for that the [three] baskets signify, that on the third day he should be crucified, and devoured by fowls, while he was not able to help himself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In fighting this battle, with a defile in rear of the army as at Leipsic, and in the midst of low ground, wooded, and cut up by small streams and gardens, it was highly important to have a number of small bridges, to prepare the banks for approaching them with ease, and to stake out the roads.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

had a natural desire that she might retain—or at least return in a short time to—the house of her ancestors; and he considered her only prospect of doing that was by a union with his heir; he had no idea that the latter was failing almost as fast as himself; nor had any one, I believe: no doctor visited the Heights, and no one saw Master Heathcliff to make report of his condition among us.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

There are places where brothels of young men are kept for the pleasure of women; where the wives go to war as well as the husbands, and not only share in the dangers of battle, but, moreover, in the honours of command.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It lasted nearly three hours; he then heard a noise of something falling, and all was silent.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

They harbored any Syracusans who were exiled and rendered his position so uncomfortable that he abandoned not only Syracuse, but Sicily as well.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

M. Emile Leroux, enraptured—what a pleasure it was to hear a noise of some kind!—thought of his colleagues, prisoners like himself, and cried out in a tremendous voice, "Oh, oh!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The pilot’s voice seemed to have a note of sadness in it.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

" As he stept into the house, a note of sweet and melancholy music thrilled and vibrated along the passage-way, proceeding from one of the rooms above stairs.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some of the houses are not of stone, nor yet of bricks; I solemnly swear they are made of wood.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

There was more or less trouble in the earlier days with the Paiute farther westward, this tribe haying a number of subdivisions that had to be successively pacified by moral or forcible suasion.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock

I am willing to hold any number of skeins or rewind any quantity of spools.
— from Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

They have a number of slender, pale, downy stems, about ten inches tall, springing from a close clump of small, dull-green leaves, pale with down on both sides and the smaller ones almost white, and bearing at the tip a dense flower-cluster, about an inch and a half across, which is very fuzzy and pretty.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

It was first necessary to make acquaintance with Kâmamanjari, and to this end I found out a woman often employed by her as a messenger, and having gained her over by bribes, sent, through her, a number of small presents, till at last Kâmamanjari was disposed in my favour, and received me at her house.
— from Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes by active 7th century Dandin

Whilst she was thus engaged, there came a gentle tap at the door; and upon opening it, she admitted, to her amazement, not only Sharpless, but Pinkerton also, who, after hearing of the Consul's unavailing visit of the day before, had now come with his friend to seek advice thus early in the morning from the faithful handmaid as to a means of acquainting the expectant Butterfly with the true position of affairs.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

How old the houses are no one seemed to know, but probably many of them are older than the chapel.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

Promise that you will pardon this man all his past deeds, who stands to prove that he and none other slew the dragon, and grant him forgiveness and your peace.”
— from The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier

Now, however, the Colonel had roused himself and declared that he, and no other, should give his young friend her birthday treat.
— from Hildegarde's Neighbors by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

"Tie his arms," Naum ordered sharply.
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev