218 B 57 CIVIL WAR, 49-45 B.C. (8) Pompeius ill-advised at Pharsalus, 48 B.C. Inter duas acies tantum erat relictum spatii, ut satis esset ad concursum utriusque exercitus.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He was attended by his staff, composed of General G. W. Cullum, U. S. Engineers, as his chief of staff; Colonel George Thom, U. S. Engineers; and Colonels Kelton and Kemper, adjutants-general.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And I hope you've not gone and got a great dinner for us,–going to expense for your sisters, as 'ud sooner eat a crust o' dry bread nor help to ruin you with extravagance.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Analogy with the accuracy and definiteness of mathematical combinations gives us such expressions as calculate , reckon , account for ; and even reason itself— ratio .
— from How We Think by John Dewey

—This organ is usually somewhat enlarged and congested.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The parents had been proud of the little fellow’s cleverness, and with an unselfishness not universal in the poor and struggling class to which they belonged, had contrived not merely to save the school-pence that supplemented the government grant, but to send the boy down under such escort as could be found for him, day after day.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 735, January 26, 1878 by Various

And as they perfect in every limb, and unparalleled on earth in beauty, and endowed with all qualities, and furnished with youth and grace, were in the garden, like unto stars embosomed among clouds, that life of all, the air, beheld them and said,— "I seek for ye: do ye become my wives.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

It is, however, difficult to convey a just idea of a work composed upon so enlarged and complete a scale; which embraces a period of about six centuries, and fourteen Italian schools, but treated with such rapidity and precision, as to form in itself a compendium of whatever we meet with in so many volumes of guides, catalogues, descriptions of churches and palaces, and in so many lives of artists, throughout the whole of Italy.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

My dear B—— , In consequence of Lord Liverpool's summons, desiring me to be in town two or three days before the 16th, and that he would meet me there any day I would appoint, I announced to him that I would come up Sunday evening, and call upon him any hour that he would fix on Monday.
— from Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

"Deuced kind of you to get up so early and carry a basket so far for me."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Which is the usual fate of any business girl who keeps up such education and cultivation as she possesses, and attempts to add to it and to improve her quality.
— from Athalie by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, so far as we know, be answered if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly, black rain-cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew;—and instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when Nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain[14] it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
— from Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin