6 coloniam , i.e. Ostia, the harbour of Rome and chief naval station.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

On the other hand, Piotr Petrovich, who from his university days had retained the habit of reducing any conversation to a discussion, spoke tediously, slowly, and deliberately, with an obvious desire to be taken for a clever and progressive man.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then turned he back to his own realm, and came to York for Christmas, and there with high solemnity observed that holy tide; and being passing grieved to see the ruin of the churches and houses, which the rage or the pagans had destroyed, he rebuilt them, and restored the city to its ancient happy state.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

“A favour, madam!” cries Tom: “if you knew the pleasure you have given me in the hopes of receiving a command from you, you would think by mentioning it you did confer the greatest favour on me; for by this dear hand I would sacrifice my life to oblige you.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Johnson had not flattered himself with the hopes of receiving any civility from this nobleman; for he said to me, when I mentioned Lord Marchmont as one who could tell him a great deal about Pope,—'Sir, he will tell ME nothing.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He had told her, without the slightest appearance of suspicion of displeasure, that he knew that we had spent two days together in Treviso, and that he had laughed at the well-meaning fool who had given him that piece of information in the hope of raising a cloud in the heaven of their felicity.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Here I staid talking with Sir G. Carteret, he being mighty free with me in his business, and among other things hath ordered Rider and Cutler to put into my hands copper to the value of L5,000 (which Sir G. Carteret’s share it seems come to in it), which is to raise part of the money he is to layout for a purchase for my Lady Jemimah.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But he used to be stubborn, and give her harsh answers, and then, when she found it all in vain, she would go to her own room, and cry so!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Water was also to be obtained at a distance of only seven miles beyond the Bàrwan there at the "Morella Ridges," to which the natives were in the habit of resorting at certain seasons, by a path of their own, to gather a fruit of which they were very fond, named by them "Moguile," and which I had previously ascertained to be that formerly discovered by me, and named by Dr. Lindley Capparis Mitchellii .
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

Kenneth dashed off to his own room, and came back in a minute.
— from Three Boys; Or, The Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn

The look was nothing more than the shadow of the habit of responsibility and command.
— from The Fighting Starkleys; or, The Test of Courage by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Ignoring the halo of romance and chivalry which the poets have thrown about the valiant Vikings and their followers, one thing we are compelled to admit: they were superb marine architects.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

She went up stairs, after this, to her own room, a comfortable, luxurious little place, near Mrs. Despard’s own apartment.
— from Miss Crespigny by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is noticed that hares and rabbits, hit in the vital organs about the heart, often run a considerable distance, and then, suddenly in the midst of their career, roll head over heels dead.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies

To his own rash and criminal act in personating another man all this tragedy was due.
— from The Princess Galva: A Romance by David Whitelaw

This supposition was, however, disproved by certain papers on the table, which were formally and laconically labelled "Reports on Lyons," and by packets of letters in the handwritings of Robespierre and Couthon.
— from Lucretia — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Now you talk of this; I did once know a man, a barber, that took his own razor and cut his own throat, and then put his head out of his chamber window, to show the neighbours what he had done, and after a little while died.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan