The rest yet stood their enemies firm; but all their violence (Though Troy fought there with fewer men) lack'd vigour to repell Those fewer from their navy's charge, and so that charge as well Lack'd force to spoil their fleet or tents.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

The Department Commander desires that on your way up the Rosebud you should thoroughly examine the upper part of Tulloch's Creek, and that you should endeavor to send a scout through to Col. Gibbon's column with information of the result of your examination.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

O eater of lambs, O troubler of the rivers, you sought to evade me in an empty bowl.
— from If: A Play in Four Acts by Lord Dunsany

When I was myself in the rudiments of my poetry, without name or reputation in the world, having rather the ambition of a writer than the skill; when I was drawing the outlines of an art, without any living master to instruct me in it—an art which had been better praised than studied here in England; wherein Shakespeare, who created the stage among us, had rather written happily than knowingly and justly; and Jonson, who, by studying Horace, had been acquainted with the rules, yet seemed to envy to posterity that knowledge, and, like an inventor of some useful art, to make a monopoly of his learning—when thus, as I may say, before the use of the loadstone or knowledge of the compass, I was sailing in a vast ocean without other help than the pole-star of the ancients and the rules of the French stage amongst the moderns (which are extremely different from ours, by reason of their opposite taste), yet even then I had the presumption to dedicate to your lordship—a very unfinished piece, I must confess, and which only can be excused by the little experience of the author and the modesty of the title—“An Essay.”
— from Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden

The reason you see the earth above your head and the sky beneath your feet, is that you as yet place material things above spiritual things.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER Killed with half his regiment at the Little Big Horn 221 The Department Commander desires that on your way up the Rosebud you should thoroughly examine the upper part of Tullock’s Creek, and that you should endeavor to send a scout through to Colonel Gibbon’s column, with information of the result of your examination.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

So I got the "resurgam" you see there engraved round it, and by Jove!
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu