They rudely seized the præfect and the quæstor, and tying their legs together with ropes, they dragged them through the streets of the city, inflicted a thousand insults and a thousand wounds on these unhappy victims, and at last precipitated their mangled and lifeless bodies into the stream of the Orontes.
— 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

L'IRLANDAIS ET LE CÂBLE Au moment où un vapeur allait partir, un Irlandais de l'équipage reçut l'ordre de haler un long câble qui trainait à l'arrière.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Some indeed of its names are utterly vanished away; others of them being changed, and another sound given them, are hardly to be discovered; yet a few there are which have kept their denominations entire.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

" This made Minerva still more furious, so she scolded Ulysses very angrily.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

A good clothes brush and whiskbroom are usually very acceptable, as strangely enough, guests almost invariably forget them.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

To experiment is to employ unknown remedies of unknown virtues and properties.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Now the Alban dynasty bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In all cases in which I have a right of compulsion, a complete right to use violence against another, I may, according to the circumstances, just as well oppose the violence of the other with craft without doing any wrong, and accordingly I have an actual right to lie precisely so far as I have a right of compulsion .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"I'll go and look her up," Van Alen offered; but he found that he was not to go alone, for Otto was waiting for him at the gate.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

[ The return of the popes from Avignon to Rome, and their reception by the people, are related in the original lives of Urban V. and Gregory XI., in Baluze (Vit.
— 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

Other girls sat upon verandas and stoops in Alice's street, cheerful as young fishermen along the banks of a stream.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

"I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side, and believe that while they both proceed as living under the marriage contract, this Eve must thrive as long as her Adam flourishes."
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Generals Huger and Magruder were again directed to use the utmost vigilance, and to pursue the foe vigorously should they discover that he was retreating.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Then, rising above the limit of trees, there is only a stunted arctic vegetation, and this permits a grand and unobstructed view all around the western horizon.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

He had grown up violently and painfully in a short space, and ordinary methods of measuring time mean very little to one who has crowded years of growth into one evening.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

"I was rather surprised the House of Commons have unanimously voted an address for a public funeral and a monument in Westminster Abbey for Lord Chatham," wrote the ungenerous monarch, "but I trust it is voted as a testimony of gratitude for his rousing the nation at the beginning of the last war ... or this compliment, if paid to his general conduct, is rather an offensive measure to me personally."
— from Farmer George, Volume 2 by Lewis Melville

This Susan Hartshorne came from the département de Sussex, au sud de l’Angleterre ; her mother was une veuve , and a large propriétaire ; her address was The Poplars, Sussex, England (direction given by the judge, and note taken by clerk to forward information to said address); she (Miss Kingscott) had crossed in the boat, as she had said, yesterday, and arrived at Havre about mid-day.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Gordon began to wonder how it could be anything but a clear unanimous vote, at that rate.
— from Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey

All new machinery, all new methods, all uncertain and variable and non-universal undertakings, are no business for the State; they commence always as experiments of unascertained value, and next after the invention of money, there is no invention has so facilitated freedom and progress as the invention of the limited liability company to do this work of trial and adventure.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells