No sooner had Octai subverted the northern empire of China, than he resolved to visit with his arms the most remote countries of the West.
— 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

Yet the spirit of the nation was humbled, and the most accessible passes of Hungary were fortified with a ditch and rampart.
— 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

He then commanded the priests, who had attempted to mislead him, immediately to leave the court; and gave strict orders, that the persecution should cease throughout his dominions.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

But still, if you will neither take our part in that indignation we have at these men, nor judge between us, the third thing I have to propose is this, that you let us both alone, and neither insult upon our calamities, nor abide with these plotters against their metropolis; for though you should have ever so great a suspicion that some of us have discoursed with the Romans, it is in your power to watch the passages into the city; and in case any thing that we have been accused of is brought to light, then to come and defend your metropolis, and to inflict punishment on those that are found guilty; for the enemy cannot prevent you who are so near to the city.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

This is the time for reserve and seriousness; and this attitude will have all the more effect upon him seeing that it is the first time you have adopted it towards him.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

losse, so much my nature was hot to have gone thither; but I did not go, but having spoke with W. Howe and known how my Lord did do this kindly as I would have it, I did go to Westminster Hall, and there met Hawley, and walked a great while with him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He tells me the Vice-Chamberlaine is so great with the King, that, let the Duke of York, and Sir W. Coventry, and this office, do or say what they will, while the King lives, Sir G. Carteret will do what he will; and advises me to be often with him, and eat and drink with him.; and tells me that he doubts he is jealous of me, and was mighty mad to-day at our discourse to him before the Duke of York.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thus, going, the wind would help, and the machine would do twelve-twenty-fourths, or half a mile a minute, and returning only two-twenty-fourths, or one-twelfth of a mile per minute, the wind being against it.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He would have all the money, he said, or keep my poor monstre in prison.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This was what it was to have been brought up in what people called a civilized way, this smooth mastery of concealment ... how easy it had been for her, at the breakfast table yesterday, not to give the faintest hint she had just been talking animatedly with him; and this morning not the faintest hint to Livingstone that she was laughing at his expense.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Next day I went home, and three months later, in Petersburg, I heard that Ivan had kept his word.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Lukos—Lionel—the sultan—Mizza—the Hedderwicks—the ambassador—a hundred minor characters, "supers" in the drama of her life, wheeled hither and thither, mocking, defying, questioning.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

We had a third mate (Titus), on board the ship who was to go on the other ship at Falmouth, and who was well acquainted here.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

He was so confident in accepting every responsibility as guide, that I followed him without hesitation, and the march continued.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

They all yelled exultantly when their chief directed their attention to me, and after a short consultation with him and Tom Mason, they came forward in a body.
— from Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons by Harry Castlemon

Would he and those millions of others who had gone down in battle become dim memories—pale shadows against the vivid background of the hurrying world?
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

At the bottom he sees a path, follows it, and reaches a palace where are three beautiful maidens, who welcome him, but warn him against their mother, who is Baba Yaga herself: "She is asleep now, but she keeps at her head a sword.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

A depositor who cannot write will have to bring with him a trustworthy man who will have to attest the identity of the depositor and to sign the deposit-book in his stead.
— from Social Comptabilism The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium by Hector Denis