The Consular elections being now come, the Romans elected Lucius Aemilius and Gaius Terentius.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Then the summits of the dark, sacred mountains were covered with snow, and the highest, mount Parnassus, glowed longest in the red evening light.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Her first measure was to grant letters of marque to privateers, authorising them to plunder all whom they fell in with; and she next collected a fleet and military force as large as the former one, and despatched them with general instructions to the leaders to regard every land as belonging to an enemy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

90 Nor was the communication of the Roman empire less free and open by sea than it was by land.
— 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

The temperament reflects everything like a mirror!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the 'R. E. Lee's' time the distance had diminished to about one thousand and thirty miles; consequently her average was about fourteen and one-eighth miles per hour.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

On one side were to sit the daimiô , his eldest son and a karô named Mori, Commander Suttie of the "Salamis," Major Crossman of the Royal Engineers, Lieutenant Stephenson (flag lieutenant); on the other Sir Harry Parkes, Admiral Sir Harry Keppel, Captain Hewett, Mitford and Mr. Risk, the [pg 260] Admiral's secretary; I was to sit at the head of the table between Sir Harry and the daimiô .
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

And forgettest thou, De Bracy, that Robert Estoteville lies betwixt thee and Hull with all his forces, and that the Earl of Essex is gathering his followers?
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Few—none—find what they love or could have loved: Though accident, blind contact, and the strong Necessity of loving, have removed Antipathies—but to recur, ere long, Envenomed with irrevocable wrong; And Circumstance, that unspiritual god
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It is of passing interest to observe that Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander, was appointed to the Military Academy at West Point by President Jackson in 1829; and it is not improbable that this appointment was the direct result of his elder half-brother’s friendship with the President.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

In an instant the soft turf, the mellow green trees, the restful English landscape faded away.
— from The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

That exquisite music calls The reaper everywhere— Life and death must share.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

A man and a maid appeared round a bend of the road, each leading a horse.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Laura had been used to regard every little relic of her father with a sort of religious veneration; and, by this accident, the name of Mr. Falkland was connected in her mind with the sentiments of unbounded esteem.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

The foothills of the Alps extend to the very bank of the Danube and furnish magnificent sites for villas, forts, public buildings and the royal palace, while on the opposite bank there is a broad plain, which affords ample room for the rapidly extending limits of the commercial and manufacturing sections of the city.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

Brother Martin, during the intervals of the business of his Order, which is slowly winding its way among the intricacies of the Roman courts, is turning his attention to the study of Hebrew, under the Rabbi Elias Levita.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

The inflexible rigour of the stern Superior is so wholly opposed to the spirit of Christ, to whom the Religious ever looks, that instead of securing obedience it excites resentment, and if it does not culminate in apostasy begets an abiding spirit of bitterness and discontent.
— from Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Laurence Costelloe

The Roman emigrants, likewise, continued insubordinate, arrogant, and stubborn.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen