Thence he returned to Rome, and crossing the sea to Macedonia, blocked up Pompey during almost four months, within a line of ramparts of prodigious extent; and at last defeated him in the battle of Pharsalia.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

There the King pledged the Archduke at a public banquet: "May he give us," declared the King, "united Prussia discredited and free German peoples; may he give us united and free sovereigns."
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

The declared representative now of those who have been thus far successful conspirators against the general Treasury and ruthless oppressors of every vital interest of defenceless California, with resonant voice and open hand he is clearly visible upon parade, demanding attention from the elected servants of all the people, and easily dwarfing the lessor lobby by the splendor of his equipment.
— from How Members of Congress Are Bribed by J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton) Moore

It was a necessity of her nature, which her unnatural position developed and fostered to a reprehensible extent.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We try to keep the children upon present day and familiar things until they show by their attack on materials and especially upon information that they are ready to work out into the unknown and unfamiliar.
— from Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

He firmly withstood the installation of Bahrdt at Halle, opposed Basedow’s endeavours, applied himself eagerly to refute the “Wolfenbüttel Fragments” of Reimarus, edited by Lessing in 1774-1778, which represented Christianity as founded upon pure deceit and fraud, and defended even the edict of Wöllner.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

They pretend to be here for preaching, but they are secretly stirring up political disturbances, and foolishly keep passing on the vain talk of the Koreans, and thereby help to foster trouble.
— from Korea's Fight for Freedom by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie

Need I say that all the picture-shops of the University promptly displayed a fancy portrait of the newly fledged minister clad in what Artemus Ward called "the scandalous style of the Greek slave," and bearing the unkind inscription—"The Rev. X.Y.Z. distinguishing himself from his fellow-Christians"?
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell