Now, as his fellow prisoners, when their hard labors were over, fell to discoursing one among another, as is usual in such as are equal sufferers, and to inquire one of another what were the occasions of their being condemned to a prison: among them the king's cupbearer, and one that had been respected by him, was put in bonds, upon the king's anger at him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But the mighty mother of the gods keeps me in these her borders.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Then he brandished the bottle over the heads of the robbers, and cried, "Long life to you all, but with your mouths open and your right hands lifted up," and then he drank a hearty draught.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

'I should not have wished to be dead to disappoint Campbell, had he been so foolish as you represent him; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Here at a taverne in Cornhill he and I did agree upon my delivering up to him a bill of Captain Cocke’s, put into my hand for Pierce’s use upon evening of reckonings about the prize goods, and so away to the ‘Change, and there hear the ill news, to my great and all our great trouble, that the plague is encreased again this week, notwithstanding there hath been a day or two great frosts; but we hope it is only the effects of the late close warm weather, and if the frosts continue the next week, may fall again; but the town do thicken so much with people, that it is much if the plague do not grow again upon us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Janamejaya is here celebrated as a king of the Kurus, and the most renowned Brahmanical teacher of the age, Āruṇi, is expressly stated to have been a Panchāla.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I remember, when I was a youth, to have been present 823 , when an old man, ninety years of age, had his person exposed to view in a very crowded court, in order that, on inspection, the procurator might satisfy himself whether he was circumcised.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The appellation appears, however, to have been wrongly applied by the monks, for the sectarians in question, variously known as the Mandæans, Mandaites, Sabians, Nazoreans, etc., called themselves Mandaï Iyahi, that is to say, the disciples, or rather the wise men, of John, the word mandaï being derived from the Chaldean word manda , corresponding to the Greek word γνῶσις or wisdom.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Meanwhile the Argive Archagoras arrived, in full flight, with the announcement that they had been dislodged from the first ridge, and that Cephisodorus and Amphicrates were slain, with a number of others besides, all in fact who had not jumped down the crags and so reached the rearguard.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

“Where is Dodo?” asked Judy, with the smile of the victor, since she had predicted only a few moments before that Dodo might by this time have become so frightened at his boldness that he would suddenly become extinct like his namesake, the dodo-bird.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

Then, the community would have the parents' love and pride towards all that had been created.
— from The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being the Personal Life and Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

In Africa they had both been accustomed to command; for they had signalized themselves by superior fortitude and courage.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

His life and works seem until recently to have been generally misunderstood.
— from The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White

He rose, girded on his magic sword, and taking his bow and arrow, began to walk about and to keep watch.
— from The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. K. Seklemian

"We have seen," says he, "the persistent variation in the quotations from the Sermon on the Mount which occur in Justin, and there is no part of the discourses of Jesus more certain to have been preserved by living Christian tradition, or to have been recorded in every form of Gospel.
— from The Wave of Scepticism and the Rock of Truth by M. H. (Matthew Henry) Habershon

He turned his big fair face towards me with surprise in his keen glance, which (as though he had seen through me in an instant and found nothing objectionable) changed subtly into friendliness.
— from The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad

The boat moved quietly along the high bank, well out of sight of those who stood by the drawbridge.
— from Danger at the Drawbridge by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

David, having captured the luggage, was accosted by one of the footmen, who then came up to Lucy and took her bag.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.