He had decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But these zealots came at last to that degree of barbarity, as not to bestow a burial either on those slain in the city, or on those that lay along the roads; but as if they had made an agreement to cancel both the laws of their country and the laws of nature, and, at the same time that they defiled men with their wicked actions, they would pollute the Divinity itself also, they left the dead bodies to putrefy under the sun; and the same punishment was allotted to such as buried any as to those that deserted, which was no other than death; while he that granted the favor of a grave to another would presently stand in need of a grave himself.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The prosecution then put upon the stand the other witnesses of the shooting at the hotel, and the clerk and the attending physicians.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one another, and rustle all their green leaves?" "Can the professor understand the signs?" asked Ida.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The son of Saturn saw them and took pity upon their sorrow.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman’s exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

An experienced psychologist will be able by careful observation to detect that in this process there is wanting just the specific element of the objective dependence of the predicate upon the subject which is characteristic of a judgment.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I had a table placed upon the same at which her majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Arruntius also went round about the pillars, and called out to the Germans, as did the tribunes with him, bidding them put up their swords, and telling them that Caius was dead.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

That was the time Paul used the straw hats for an emergency ration.
— from The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan As Told in the Camps of the White Pine Lumbermen for Generations During Which Time the Loggers Have Pioneered the Way Through the North Woods from Maine to California; Collected from Various Sources and Embellished for Publication by William B. Laughead

To each man as he appeared it was pointed out that he owed his life to the fact that the British had not followed (as they well might have) the precedent set by the Germans at Coronel of making no effort to pick up the survivors from the ships they had sunk.
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

"As for what relates to the church, he is of opinion that these epilogues have given occasion to those merry jigs from the organ-loft, which have dissipated those good thoughts and dispositions he has found in himself, and the rest of the pew, upon the singing of two staves culled out by the judicious and diligent clerk.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

A ROCKING CHAIR In furniture construction such as this, nothing is gained by trying to plane up the stock out of the rough.
— from Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The text was as follows:— “ To the President of the United States, Washington: “The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest.
— from The Atlantic Telegraph (1865) by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Some scratched the ground just like the hens at home, and then picked up things so small that he couldn't see what they were.
— from The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

“Something like them partridges used to,” said Lin, musingly.
— from Lin McLean by Owen Wister

All that he had to do was to push up the sash sufficiently high, climb over the low windowsill, thrust aside the Venetians, and the box would be within reach of his hand.
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight