Winter was now at hand; but dispersing the fleet, which had retired to Corinth and the Crissaean Gulf, Cnemus, Brasidas, and the other Peloponnesian captains allowed themselves to be persuaded by the Megarians to make an attempt upon Piraeus, the port of Athens, which from her decided superiority at sea had been naturally left unguarded and open.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In 1798 a fleet of twenty-five Moro bancas passed up the Pacific coast of Luzon and fell upon the isolated towns of Paler, Casiguran, and Palanan, destroying the pueblos and taking 450 captives.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

1226 The remains of this once powerful city are marked by the village of Cervetri or Old Cære.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

When thou art hard to be stirred up and awaked out of thy sleep, admonish thyself and call to mind, that, to perform actions tending to the common good is that which thine own proper constitution, and that which the nature of man do require.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

At the Smasanākollai festival in honour of the goddess Ankalamma at Malayanūr, some thousands of people congregate at the temple.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

In a time of perfect calm, amid willing neighbors and streaming wealth, the social uplifting of four million slaves to an assured and self-sustaining place in the body politic and economic would have been a herculean task; but when to the inherent difficulties of so delicate and nice a social operation were added the spite and hate of conflict, the hell of war; when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement,—in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large part foredoomed to failure.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

"It is the aid of God!" exclaimed the bishop, in a tone of pious confidence; and the whole multitude repeated after him, "It is the aid of God."
— 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

You know the old proverb, 'Call a maid by a married name.'”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The weight of taxes was suspended, the perpetual theme of popular complaint; and he prohibited the trials by the ordeal and judicial combat.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon

She felt quite sure there was some deeper trouble than mere physical pain, and had a longing desire to give sympathy and relief; a desire untainted by a touch of prying curiosity, and that strengthened so greatly during this afternoon's interview that she was fain to give expression to it; doing so with extreme delicacy and tact.
— from Mildred at Roselands A Sequel to Mildred Keith by Martha Finley

The tamulus of Patroclus crowned a low bluff looking on the sea.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

It must have been strong indeed, for according to the old proverb― Cobblers and tinkers Are your true ale drinkers.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

[Pg 74] them set up courts of admiralty for the trial of prize cases, and even dispatched privateers from the port of Charleston to prey upon British vessels.
— from Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson

The glorious summer anticipated by the orator proved cold and brief, and if the lowering clouds were indeed buried in the ocean, the sea has given up its dead.
— from A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. by Franklin Dexter

Now they were far north, seeking safety in their old peasant city and she was doing stenographer duty in the county government office.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

He settled in Vienna in 1730, by invitation of the Emperor Charles VI., who gave him the title of Poeta Cesareo , and there wrote a multitude of lyrical tragedies, operas, oratorios, and poems of all kinds.—T.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

It had never entered her mind that the old Prince could appear on his son's behalf, and she did not know how to meet him.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford