We saw some of the fightings and killings; and by and by we went one night to an armory where two hundred young men had met, upon call, to be armed and go forth against the rioters, under command of a military man.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

As he was giving these commands to his relations, there came letters from his ambassadors, who had been sent to Rome unto Cæsar, which, when they were read, their purport was this: That Acme was slain by Cæsar, out of his indignation at what hand, she had in Antipater's wicked practices; and that as to Antipater himself, Cæsar left it to Herod to act as became a father and a king, and either to banish him, or to take away his life, which he pleased.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

+ bælcan to root up , CPs 79 14 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“It is then a service which you propose to render us, count?” asked Anne of Austria, after a moment’s silence.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They made no allowance for the customs, or even for the language, of another country; but formed all their remarks upon comparisons with the English theatre.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

In groping my way around the prison, I could not fail to encounter this rag upon completing the circuit.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

—It is this continual attempt to arrange matters and to keep the different Powers clear of each other in order that their interests may not clash, which is the real underlying cause to-day of what is known as the "Balance of Power."
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

As a connection of their mother's, in their rather unprotected condition, I have felt it incumbent upon me to keep my eye on matters.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

They rushed upon certain death, endeavoring madly to scale the bulwarks or force the gates, and fell amidst showers of darts and lances, filling the ditches with their mangled bodies.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

San Zenone, with the quaint bronzes on its doors representing in the rudeness of the first period of art the incidents of the Old Testament and the miracles of the saints—with the allegorical sculptures surrounding the interior and exterior of the portico, and illustrating, among other things, the creation of Eve with absolute literalness—with its beautiful and solemn crypt in which the dust of the titular saint lies entombed—with its minute windows, and its vast columns sustaining the roof upon capitals of every bizarre and fantastic device—is doubtless most abundant in that Gothic spirit, now grotesque and now earnest, which somewhere appears in all the churches of Verona; which has carven upon the façade of the Duomo the statues of Orlando and Olliviero, heroes of romance, and near them has placed the scandalous figure of a pig in a monk's robe and cowl, with a breviary in his paw; which has reared the exquisite monument of Guglielmo da Castelbarco before the church of St. Anastasia, and has produced the tombs of the Scaligeri before the chapel of Santa Maria Antica.
— from Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells

And in the pause the Red Un came back, came crawling down the ladder, his indomitable spirit driving his craven little body.
— from Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

My hope revived, and I started off at a trot straight in front of me, getting past the ridge, under cover of which the pair of batteries were plying their guns.
— from In the Field (1914-1915): The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry by Marcel Dupont

Ride, Hastings,—ride; retrieve thy laurels, and bring up the reserve under Clarence.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 12 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They rushed upon Canada.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark